Graduate students conducting research under supervision of
a faculty member, including thesis and dissertation research
wishing to use the assessment tools published by California
Academic Press LLC must first submit a letter from that faculty
member (project supervisor / advisor / thesis or dissertation
director).
Your
Faculty Supervisor's Letter
(1) should be on the institution's letterhead and should
include
(2) should include the name, title, and institutional
affiliation of the faculty member [e.g. Dr. Susan Smith,
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology College of
Arts and Sciences, Loyola University],
(3) a statement in which the faculty member affirms
that she or he is working with you or supervising or advising
or directing you on the specific project for which you are
purchasing testing materials,
(4) the name of the project, or title of the thesis
or dissertation, and a one or two sentence description.
(5) a statement that the faculty member takes responsibility,
along with you, for the security of the testing materials,
and
(6) an acknowledgment that the testing materials are
protected by US and international copyright laws and are
the intellectual and scholarly property of the copyright
holders.
Insight
Assessment will accept orders and credit card information,
but we do not ship testing materials until the faculty member's
letter has been received.
The
Graduate Student's Own Letter
You should send a letter or an e-mail which includes at
least the following
(1) the name of your faculty supervisor whom you
have asked to send the faculty letter described above,
(2) the title and a very brief description of your
project, thesis, or dissertation,
(3) a rough estimate of the quantities of tests you
may be using and the time frame for your use of those materials
[e.g. "Although my plans could change, at this point
I expect to use the CM3 Level II and the HSRT on-line to
gather pretest and posttest data from 50 subjects during
the coming academic year."]
(4) a statement that you will safeguard the security
of all testing materials, and
(5) an acknowledgment that the testing materials
are protected by US and international copyright laws and
are the intellectual and scholarly property of the copyright
holders
(6) contact information in case we need to be in
touch with you for any reason relating to your order(s)
or the scoring, use, or interpretation of the testing materials.
We would appreciate receiving a summary or a courtesy copy
of the final research report.
Doctoral students: Insight Assessment will sell directly
to doctoral students engaged in dissertation research.
Masters
degree students: Make arrangements with your sponsoring
faculty advisor for that advisor to purchase instruments.
Further
Restrictions: We do not sell or supply tests to graduate
students for purposes of classroom psychometric or educational
analysis, evaluation, or critique
Insight
Assessment reserves the right not to sell to students in programs
which use its tools for high stakes assessment.
For
complete details see on test purchasing restrictions Click
Here.
