Comparing two groups of test takers is easy to do within our online testing system for customers who work with our staff to set up their testing account to include this option. But we have expert professional staff that can offer these services even if your data sets are many years old or currently not linked as a related testing events.  Contact us to have your account researched for the potential to retrieve meaningful information ab...

We match the reporting of results to your particular setting. Results can be always available for retrieval or sent to your email address, as two examples.  

Yes, there are several different norms groups for the Health Sciences Reasoning Test corresponding to the different levels of student or practitioner. These include Masters level, undergraduate and two year college norms. Specialty norms for the various practice areas in the health sciences are also available.

Yes, we offer presentation ready graphics with both our basic and premium reporting services. 

Yes, your data can be compared within the MSACS or from regional data in these states; Delaware – DE, District of Columbia – DC, Maryland – MD, New Jersey – NJ, New York – NY, Pennsylvania – PA, Puerto Rico – PR, Virgin Islands.

Yes, your data can be compared within conference or from regional data in these states; Connecticut – CT, Maine – ME, Massachusetts – MA, New Hampshire  - NH, Rhode Island – RI, Vermont – VT.

Yes, your data can be compared within conference or from regional data in these states; Arizona – AZ, Arkansas – AR, Colorado – CO, Illinois – IL, Indiana – IN, Iowa – IA, Kansas – KS, Michigan – MI, Minnesota – MN, Missouri – MO, Nebraska – NE, New Mexico – NM, North Dakota – ND, Ohio – OH, Oklahoma – OK, South Dakota – SD, West Virginia – WV, Wisconsin – WI, Wyoming – WY.

Yes, your data can be compared within conference or from regional data in these states; Alaska – AK, Idaho – ID, Montana – MT, Nevada – NV, Oregon – OR, Utah – UT, Washington - WA

Yes, your data can be compared within the conference or with regional data in these states; Alabama – AL, Florida – FL, Georgia – GA, Kentucky – KY, Louisiana – LA, Mississippi – MS, North Carolina – NC, South Carolina – SC, Tennessee – TN, Texas-TX, Virginia-VA.

Yes, your data can be compared within conference or from regional data in these states; California – CA, Hawaii – HI, Guam , American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Republic of Palau, Federated States of Micronesia, Republic of the Marshall Islands

Yes, your data can be compared within conference or from regional data in these states; California – CA, Hawaii – HI, Guam

When you test online you can decide whether your test taker will see a one page printable report of their scores. Usually these are withheld from applicants, but in some circumstances you might decide that your test takers will find this information valuable to improving their thinking skills or habits of mind.

Yes.  Our senior research associates include Ph.D. prepared individuals with many years of scientific research design and statistical analysis experience.  These individuals collaborate with our other professional staff on premium report projects for clients including a full range of statistical analytics.
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These can be sent to your email address as soon as the test is completed, allowing you to make timely decisions about applicants or placement. They can also be retrieved at your convenience from your account in the online testing system. 

With online testing, each of your testing groups can be downloaded in spreadsheet form at any time, either by you or by one of our staff, depending on your elected service option. Paper and pencil testing scores are returned to you in spreadsheet form as well. 

CapScore™ is our paper and pencil testing scoring system. For each of our testing instruments availalbe in paper and pencil format, there is a corresponding CapScore™ answer form that must be used to record your test takers' responses to the the test items. These forms must be sent back to the company for scoring and your results reports will be returned to you by email in spreadsheet form. 

All purchases of tests from Insight Assessment include Basic Reporting Service. This service provides clients with a presentation ready report, documenting individual  test taker's scores and group descriptive statistics. 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. Online testing offers you a...

Premium Report packages can be designed to fit your organization's specific needs. Premium Report packages most often provide group level (employees, applicants, students) graphic presentation of critical thinking skill levels, comparing groups as is appropriate and following these groups over time. Descriptive and conparative analyses of critical thinking scores in relationship to other key agency variables is also a common component....

This depends on the amount of jobs in the queue. Most often it is a week to 10 days. We guarantee within 15 working days; rush scoring is available at a fee. 

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 deviation, and the like. Premium Reporting service includes inferential statistics, such as t-test, correlations, ANOVA, and the like.

Premium reporting is a way for you to customize your results package with additional analyses, graphics, and interpretative text discussing your scores in relationship to your particular goals and objective. Customers might choose a premium report to prepare results for a stakeholder meeting or agency conference. Customers who use our instruments as student learning assessment tools can commission a report that can be integrated into their....

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 are not composed of exactly the same set of individuals, the groups can be analyzed as a comparison between two related but independent groups (aggregate group comparison).  Both provide you with useful information.

As a function of test security, we do not provide item level data or scale structure information. If you are attempting to calculate a reliability statistic for your testing session, you can request and receive reliability coefficients for your sample if it is of adequate size to support this analysis. If you are attempting to improve scores by training your test takers to learn which answer is correct, this is not an effective way to impro...

Each score report is very informative. Additional interpretation information is always available in your test User Manual materials or you can contact our staff for additional consultation.

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‘Outlier’ is the term used to refer to a data point that is out of scale from the other data in the sample (and therefore possibly less valuable for describing the sample.  In the case of scores on the CCTST or other critical thinking skills tests at Insight Assessment, very high and very low scores are not simply outliers. These critical thinking skills tests are constructed to achieve accurate scores throughout the continuum. It is i...