For over 25 years, Insight Assessment has provided tools to measure critical thinking for clients who understand that a measure of an individual’s critical thinking ability is a reliable indicator of how they will perform when faced with new problems in high stakes and time-limited situations. As a world leader in the measurement of critical thinking, Insight Assessment has developed a uniquely comprehensive array of test instruments which includes tools designed for professional and academic use from the third grade through doctoral level. Each test has been designed to objectively measure the critical thinking skills and dispositions of test takers at targeted educational levels or with question content attuned to the interests of specific professional fields. Online or paper and pencil administration is available.

In English and in many authorized translations, these high quality instruments are in use with professionals, new hires, candidates, and students at every educational level by businesses, universities, schools, and government agencies.

No society, local or global, can sustain itself and flourish without its members learning to think well together.  <...

Our Mission 

Insight Assessment was founded by people who believe that success in any endeavor demands good thinking. In business, government, and education, this means that people at every level of an organization must learn to reason fair-mindedly with skillful consideration of consequences, and be able to solve problems and propose changes that will move the organization forward.<...

Founded in 1986, Insight Assessment supports thinking well by providing world class instruments to measure those core critical thinking skills and habits of mind essential for reflective human problem solving and thoughtful, fair-minded decision making. We proudly offer the internationally respected California Critical Thinking family of tests. In English and in authorized translations, these high quality instruments are in use with professionals, new hires, candidates, and students at every educational level by businesses, universities, schools, and government agencies.<...

Welcome to the Insight Assessment Online Test System.

 Please follow the instructions in the attached PDF to  initiate your test session.

The attached PDF provides instructions which are explained during new online client orientations. 

The California Critical Thinking Skills Test Family is a set of critical thinking skills tests based on the Delphi Expert Consensus Definition of Critical Thinking.  Research has shown that these instruments predict strength in critical thinking in authentic problem situations and success on professional licensure examinations. As measures of core c...

Client & End-User Responsibilities

Use, administration, scoring, and interpretation of the assessment tools published by the California Academic Press is the sole responsibility of the purchaser and user.  Insight Assessment strongly recommends that persons using the CCTST or other testing tools should observe ethical, academic, and professional standards in the use, administration, scoring, and interpretation of those instruments.<...

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How to Submit Work for Publication

Insight Assessment welcomes submissions of tests, inventories, books, rubrics, or other works for publication. Authors who own the legal rights to materials, or who have copyright clearances, are invited to submit proposals and materials for publication. <...

If your project requires an authorized translation which we currently do not have listed, please call (650) 697-5628 or use the Contact Us Form below. All scoring of all tests is done by Insight Assessment. Test and scale structures and item responses are never released<...

Insight Assessment was established as The California Academic Press in 1986 by Dr. Peter A. Facione, a leading figure in the quest to demonstrate empirically that a consensus understanding of critical thinking could be attained and that the core cognitive skills and centrally important dispositional habits of mind of critical thinking could be learned, taught, and assessed.<...