The successful leader has both the ability and discipline to engage problems, evaluate options, and make judgments using skillful reasoning, accurate information, training and experience. Critical thinking is essential, for without being both willing and able to think, the chances of success diminish significantly. The Military and Defense Critical Thinking Inventory  precisely targets those core critical thinking skills, the disciplines of mind and the personal attributes regarded as essential for military personnel with leadership responsibilities of any kind.

Working with the ideas, advice and support of several leaders and education experts, civilian and military, retired and active, of the US Air Force, US Marine Corps, US Army, US Navy and Joint Special Operations, Insight Assessment developed the Military and Defense Critical Thinking Inventory (MDCTI). This two part instrument targets core critical thinking skills and key personal attributes associated with successfully engaging complex and novel problems and making thoughtful decisions about what to believe and what to do.

Together the sixteen scales on the MDCTI provide a comprehensive profile of the core reasoning skills, reasoning habits of mind, and style of the test taker. Because these skills and mental disciplines can be strengthened and refined with training and practice, the MDCTI can be used in educational programs to aid in evaluating candidates, predicting success, measuring progress, evaluating programs, summarizing gains, and benchmarking.

The topics used in the MDCTI questions are military and defense related; however, the questions themselves target thinking, rather than content knowledge. Thus individuals with or without specific experience or training in those particular topic areas are neither advantaged nor disadvantaged.

The MSRP is administered in 90 minutes either through our encrypted on-line testing system or in traditional paper-&-pencil format. Contact Insight Assessment for details. Individual scores and group scores are reported.