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Yes. Technical support depends not only on technical knowledge, but  also on problem solving skills and a positive customer service orientation.  Our measurement tools can assist your organization in identifying those persons for your technical support staff who bring together the optimal combination of knowledge, skills, and personal attributes. 

Yes. Comprehensive Loss Prevention programs must not only address rules and regulations. They must also focus on hiring/promoting employees who value honesty and on creating a positive business culture. Our Business Attributes Inventory can help you identify strengths and weaknesses in your staff.  Our comprehensive reports w...

Many of our tests are used for high stakes testing and are sold only to individuals with testing credentials: human resource professionals, educators, university administrators, researchers, and other employee managers. If you do not hold one of these titles or credentials, it's possible that you will not be able to purchase some of our products. Contact us to discuss options. 

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 current and proposed policies, identify and implement alternative policy approaches, and assess the impact of the chances. 

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 support materials, such as scoring rubrics, which we offer free to students and instructors for their non-commercial use.  Or contact us about premium reporting and consulting services to learn about best practices in teaching for and about critical thinki...

By raising awareness of the importance of critical thinking and particularly the positive critical thinking habit of endeavoring to think ahead to anticipate consequences, an organization can find solutions to workplace safety issues.  We can assist by gathering data to establish current baselines, to develop ideas for programs to raise awareness and skills, and then to evaluate the effectiveness of those programs after implementation....

Using our testing instruments an organization can gather base line data on the intial level of critical thinking displayed by individuals and groups on entry to the program. Then, by post-testing the same individuals at the end of the program, one can identify the kinds and extents of the improvements in individuals and in the group.  The results we report enable you to run the relevant statistical analyses of potential pretest to post...

Shrink is rarely totally eliminated but the best employees have fewer accidents and assist our clients to diligently monitor customer theft.

You can teach an employee what to do, but only they can apply themselves to do it well. Our tools assist employers train, promote and select staff with a desire to satisfy the customer.

Business critical thinking - the capacity to make timely, effective and well reasoned decisions - is absolutely essential for success. We can assist by gathering data to establish current baselines with regard to the supervisory, staff and professional level skills used in problem solving and decision making.  And we can gather baseline data on key employee attributes including dedication, willingness to work, willingness to learn, and...

By raising awareness of the importance of critical thinking and particularly the positive critical thinking habit of endeavoring to think ahead to anticipate consequences, an organization can find solutions to workplace safety issues.  We can assist by gathering data to establish current baselines, to develop ideas for programs to raise awareness and skills, and then to evaluate the effectiveness of those programs after implementation....

Employees with stronger thinking skills and the desire to do a good job will be the best line of defense against shrink. Our product measure the characteristics in both categories to help our clients out perform their competition in managing shrink.

Look under Critical Thinking Resources on our website.  We provide a selection of resources for those engaged in teaching for and about thinking. You'll find discussions of what critical thinking is, lists of research about critical thinking, and practical strategies that have proven valuable for training excellence in reasoning and judgment that can be applied across disciplines and settings, in teaching and training pe...

In situations where employee theft cannot be easily monitored, employers gain a competitive edge by using our Business Attribute Inventory, the BAI , to assess honesty in prospective employees.

Whether you are looking for a presenter or thinking about developing a workshop which your own people would conduct, please contact us to discuss your faculty workshop project.  For more than 25 years we have assisted institutions with faculty workshops.  We can connect you with nationally and internationally recognized critical thinking workshop presenters and consultants.

QEP is the term used by many companies, colleges and universities to refer to their program for improving employee or student learning. It means Quality Enhancement Plan. Insight Assessment has a number of options that can help you plan your QEP and a variety of report packages to assist you with reporting the result of your QEP.

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Critical Thinking Overview

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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...
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...
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To diminish errors in patient care, a rehabilitation services center is using the health science test HSRT to identify employees who would most benefit from employee development prog...
 Many Southeastern schools use critical thinking testing CCTST for accreditation and receive state funding by maintaining a QEP that shows year over year improvement in their CC...
Many community colleges require all students to take the Test for Everyday Reasoning ( TER ) as part of their quality enhancement plan (QEP). The TER provides a measure of indiv...
In a Middle School District in the south, teachers are using the CM3 instrument to examine children’s thinking related habits of mind as a way of improving teaching and learning. 
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Frequently Asked Questions

You can teach an employee what to do, but only they can apply themselves to do it well. Our tools assist employers train, promote and select staff with a desire to satisfy the customer.
QEP is the term used by many companies, colleges and universities to refer to their program for improving employee or student learning. It means Quality Enhancement Plan. Insight Ass...
Shrink is rarely totally eliminated but the best employees have fewer accidents and assist our clients to diligently monitor customer theft.
Employees with stronger thinking skills and the desire to do a good job will be the best line of defense against shrink. Our product measure the characteristics in both categories to...
Yes. Technical support depends not only on technical knowledge, but  also on problem solving skills and a positive customer service orientation.  Our measurement tools can...