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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.

We publish, distribute, score and report the results of high quality reasoning tests and survey instruments.

We also publish related books and reports, and provide consulting and training.

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Critical Thinking Overview

Our instruments are used by clients around the world, and in some cases for high stakes testing purposes. Insight Assessment, like other major testing companies, does all that it can...
This popular and often quoted essay about the meaning and importance of critical thinking was written by Dr. Peter Facione for students and the general public. It invites readers to...
Our instruments are used by clients around the world, and in some cases for high stakes testing purposes. Insight Assessment, like other major testing companies, does all that it can...
Insight Assessment is committed to providing valid and reliable translations. Critical thinking measures are, of necessity, embedded in language. A person's performance on these meas...
Learning demands critical thinking. Students who are both willing and able to correctly interpret information, analyze problems, see the consequences of the things they are learning,...

How Clients Use Our Products

Critical thinking is at the heart of diagnostic reasoning and the development of new clinical knowledge. The HSRT and other Insight Assessment test instruments are being used worldwi...
Insight Assessment has over twenty years of experience working with the premiere institutions in the Southeastern Association of Colleges and Schools. The strategic thinkers leading...
Critical thinking is one of the vital cross-disciplinary learning outcome around which high quality Honors Programs are organized. Regardless of the theme of the program, teaching fo...
Many institutions organize high quality Freshman Seminar and Core General Studies programs around the cross-disciplinary critical thinking learning outcome. Teaching for critica...
The Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities – NWCCU-- publishes accreditation standards that encourage its member institutions to think critically about how their faculty a...

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes.  Our senior consultants and instrument design specialists can work with you to develop assessment tools to gather information on the perceived strenghts and weaknesses of c...
Yes, in several ways.  Use our testing tools to establish base line measures, to capture pretest post-test gains, and to benchmark against national norms.  Use the learning...
Insight Assessment has extensive experience working with the premiere institutions in the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Strong SACS QEPs require commitment in the dev...
Insight Assessment does not condone or participate in any measurement or analysis that violates EEOC  standards or is used for discriminatory practices.
The Holistic Critical Thinking Scoring Rubric (HCTSR) is a rating measure that can be used to assess the quality of critical thinking displayed in a verbal presentation or written te...