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What are Critical Thinking Skills?

Core critical thinking skills include analysis, interpretation, inference, evaluation, explanation, and self-reflection.  These skills are central to problem solving and decision making in an extremely wide variety of contexts and at all educational and professional levels.  For more about these critical thinking skills and the benefits of developing them download your personal copy of Dr. Peter Facione's widely cited essay, "Critical Thinking: What It Is and Why It Counts."

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California Critical Thinking Skills Test (CCTST)

The CCTST has been called the "gold standard" of college level critical thinking tests. The CCTST has been used in the USA and in authorized translations worldwide with gra...

California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory (CCTDI)

The California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory is the premier tool for surveying the dispositional aspects of critical thinking. The CCTDI measures the "willing" di...

Test of Everyday Reasoning (TER)

The Test of Everyday Reasoning (TER) is a test of critical thinking skills calibrated for test takers in high school or the first two years of post-secondary education, and for adult...

Business Critical Thinking Skills Test (BCTST)

The Business Critical Thinking Skills Test (BCTST) is designed to evaluate the critical thinking skills of MBA students, undergraduate Business students and working professionals. It...

Military and Defense Critical Thinking Inventory (MDCTI)

The MDCTI Part 1 & 2 precisely targets those core critical thinking skills, the disciplines of mind and the personal attributes regarded as essential for military personnel,...

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Why Measure Critical Thinking Skills?

Weak critical thinking skills show themselves in many ways: critical and costly errors, repeated mistakes, bad decisions, failed systems, inaction when action is needed, the giving o...

High School Students Use CT Every Day

Everyone needs to use critical thinking every day.  High school students should engage in critical thinking when they are learning in and outside the classroom, when they a...

Why Measure Critical Thinking Attributes?

People who cannot think as well as we need them to think, whether they are workers, parents, children, supervisors, teachers, soldiers or elders impact the success of our school...

Critical Thinking in Legal Profession

At the June 2011 International Institute of Space Law (IISL) Conference, critical thinking in the legal profession was described as "the capacity of discernment, indeed a comple...

Critical Thinking in General Studies Programs

Indiana University East describes its General Studies degree as the most flexible of any academic program.  "General Studies students learn skills like critical thinking, c...

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Critical Thinking?

Critical thinking is reasoned and reflective judgment applied to solving problems or making decisions about what to believe or what to do.  Critical thinking gives reasoned cons...

How are your products different from others like Wonderlic?

At a technical level there are many differences.  But we do not wish to disparage the Wonderlic or the testing products offered by other companies.  Insight Assessment test...

Why would I need two different tests? What is a companion instrument?

Insight Assessment critical thinking tests are used world wide to assess critical thinking skills (cognitive strategies usually measured as critical thinking ability) and critical th...

How do I improve critical thinking skills?

There are many ways to improve critical thinking skills and  all of them require practice and reflection.  Begin by downloading your own personal free copy of "Critica...

What are critical thinking attributes?

The attributes that our tools address are those mental disciplines, personal attributes, dispositions or habits of mind associated with the conssitent internal motivation to engage p...

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