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What are standardized critical thinking tests?

Standardized tests provide scores that can be benchmarked against external norms, such as a large national sample, so that each individual's test score can be compared using percentile rankings to the scores of that large sample

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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...

Health Science Reasoning Test (HSRT)

The HSRT is a test of critical thinking specifically designed for health sciences and health care professional preparation programs. Items require no health science knowledge but are...

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...

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...

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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Uses

Testing Skills and Disposition of the Student Body

A large university uses the critical thinking skills test, CCTST, and the disposition test, CCTDI, to get a complete critical thinking profile of their accepted students.

Accreditation Self Studies Document CT Gains

The Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities – NWCCU-- publishes accreditation standards that encourage its member institutions to think critically about how their faculty a...

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...

Medical Centers Design Cost Effective Programs

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...

Schools of Dentistry Require CT Measurements

Dental schools around the country are administering Insight Assessment critical thinking test instruments (the Health Sciences Reasoning Test, the California Critical Thinking Skills...

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is representativeness?

The term 'Representativeness' when used related to testing, means that a small sample that was tested from a larger group was so similar to the larger group (representative of the gr...

What is a percentile score?

Percentile scores for individual test takers represent how an individual test taker's score compares to the scores of other test takers within a particular comparison group. Percenti...

What test score reports do I receive?

All testing includes Basic Reporting, which is the score of each scale on the test and basic descriptive group statistics, namely mean, median, high score, low score, standard deviat...

Can your products be used in college prep applications?

Yes,  our critical thinking skills tests and reasoning disposition measures are designed for use at all educational levels including college prep.  Individual scores on the...

What is validity?

The validity of the California family of testing instruments is derived from the cross disciplinary conceptual definition of critical thinking that emerged from the APA Delphi Resear...

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