At the college, community college, professional school level regional and national accrediting agencies recognize the data gathered with our testing tools for purposes of educational outcomes assessment and accreditation. States with performance funding mandates, e.g. Tennessee, have approved certain of our tools for use in their funding processes.

Specifying goals for your Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) is best done by obtaining some baseline data for your student group. This will allow you to target particular skills or habits of mind in the following years of the QEP project. Even so, it will be important to set realistic goals for your QEP.  All of the following would be reasonable approaches to your QEP outcomes assessment in critical thinking.

1. Demonstrate the....

Yes, we support institutions like yours with objective measures of critical thinking which will accurately asssess the reasoning skills and thinking habits of mind of your students. And we further assist with the preparation of presentation ready reports and graphics through our premium reporting service.

We have many customers who use one or more of our instruments to demonstrate achievement of students' learning outcomes to their accrediting bodies. Our basic scoring package provides you with the tables and graphics needed to compare your student' achievement with national norms and to identify group strengths and weaknesses. We also offer Premium Reports that provide you with expanded results to display the results from each year of your....

Yes. Tests like the CCTST have been approved for performance funding purposes.  The CCTST is an objective measure of core critical thinking skills.   By benchmarking against our database of national norms based on institutional type, colleges, universities and technical schools in performance funding, states (such as Tennessee) use the CCTST precisely for this purpose.

There is a special process to help you with this IRB request. Tests may not be scanned, nor may they be transmitted electronically by any party. If you would prefer to have your IRB see the test online, you can assign the committee members a login and password for them to review the test. You will need to pay for the tests that they preview but we will charge you at your doctoral student pricing. If you will be mailing test booklets to your...

IRB is an abreviation of "Institutional Review Board" and it refers to any committee or board tasked with oversight of research conducted on human subjects. Your IRB may ask about your planned testing to determine if the instrument being used protects the right of your test takers. Insight Assessment can provide you with our privacy policy statement to include in the information that you may need to submit to your IRB to obtain pe...

1.   Because strong critical thinking skills and positive critical thinking habits of mind are vital academic success in every academic discipline and major field of study. 2.  Because regional accreditation organizations are looking to First Year Success and Freshman Seminar programs as vehicles through which institutions can deliver and assess their core learning outcomes.

Insight Assessment has extensive experience working with the premiere institutions in the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Strong SACS QEPs require commitment in the development of the plan, its effective execution, and a thoughtful analysis and presentation of the QEP results.

Insight Assessment provides important support for successful QEP initiatives.

• We are committed to the highest levels of integrity an...

Here are some suggestions from the Insight Assessment researchers for addressing SACS Comprehensive Standard 3.5.1, College-Level General Education Competencies. 

Planning a QEP that will bring lifelong value to your students and energize your campus community: Growth in students’ critical thinking skills and habits of mind.

Key considerations:

Identify a goal that has clear value: &...