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What do different tools measure?

Critical thinking is our target. Critical thinking involves being both willing and able to engage problems in a reflective and thoughtful way. Our tools address both dimensions of critical thinking: critical thinking skills and the motivation or disposition to use those skills.

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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...

Quant Q: Measure Quantitative Reasoning

The Quant Q measures quantitative reasoning integrated with critical thinking. It is used in all  employment contexts and levels at which the demonstrable capacity to apply quan...

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...

Professional Judgement Rating Form (PJRF)

The Professional Judgment Rating Form (PJRF) was developed by our research team to make holistic assessments of critical thinking in educational and workplace settings. The PJRF is u...

Legal Studies Reasoning Profile (LSRP)

The LSRP is a two-part tool designed for legal professionals and students in law school and government, legal studies, pre-law, and paralegal programs. .

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Uses

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...

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...

Why is Fall Testing Important?

Fall testing (testing incoming students) is a first step in a comprehensive analysis of educational effectiveness.

Online, Hybrid and Distance Education Programs

Training for critical thinking has become an increasing focus for online educators.Program quality demands identifying and enrolling the best possible students and then educating the...

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Frequently Asked Questions

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...

What's the difference between a skill and a disposition?

A skill is something a person can do, like reading, swimming, singing, or thinking. Skills are more or less well developed within the range of a persons abilities. A person may have...

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...

What’s the difference between aggregate and matched-pairs comparisons?

Group comparisons can be analyzed statistically in a matched pairs approach (which associates each individual’s post test score with his or her pretest score), or, when the groups ar...

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