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Evaluate Effectiveness of Freshman Seminars

Freshman Seminar and First Year Success Directors are adopting programs using Insight Assessment critical thinking measurement tools to pretest and posttest their students' critical thinking skills and critical thinking habits of mind.  They recognize that critical thinking may just be the most important and widely espoused college level student learning outcome--and that 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. Strong critical thinking skills and positive critical thinking habits of mind are vital to academic success in every academic discipline and major field of study.

Insight Assessment offers a comprehensive selection of critical test instruments that are calibrated to measure critical thinking thinking skills and dispositions of  specific test takers. These test instruments include:

  • The California Critical Thinking Skills Test (CCTST) is being used worldwide to provide valid, objective and reliable measures of the core reasoning and critical thinking skill of undergraduate and graduate students. The CCTST has been proven to predict strength in critical thinking in authentic problem situations. 
  • The California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory (CCTDI) measures test takers' motivation to apply critical thinking skills in decision making and problem solving. The CCTDI is calibrated for use with the general adult population including workers and working professionals at all levels, and for students in grades 10 and above.
  • The Test of Everyday Reasoning (TER) : Widely used in 2 year colleges, the TER is designed to measure the critical thinking skills of test takers in secondary schools, the first two years of post secondary education or of adults of all ages in the general public. 

Insight Assessment's cost-and-time-effective tests of critical thinking skills rely on case-based scenarios to provide objective, valid and reliable standardized measures of core problem solving and decision making skills.  Assessment solutions are available using either on-line testing or paper-and-pencil testing. Use the Contact Us Form below to discuss your testing needs or to discuss strategies for pre-post testing students in your program.

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The Test of Everyday Reasoning (TER) is a test of critical thinking skills calibrated for test takers in high school or the first two years of post-secondary education, and for adult...
The Business Critical Thinking Skills Test (BCTST) is designed to evaluate the critical thinking skills of MBA students, undergraduate Business students and working professionals. It...
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...
The MDCTI Part 1 & 2 precisely targets those core critical thinking skills, the disciplines of mind and the personal attributes regarded as essential for military personnel,...
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. .

Frequently Asked Questions

Pretest and posttest your students' critical thinking skills and critical thinking habits of mind using Insight Assessment's critical thinking measurement tools. The difference betwe...
Because strong critical thinking skills and positive critical thinking habits of mind mean student success.  By teaching critical thinking, the Freshman Seminar enables students...
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....
All of them, but particularly through the Freshman Seminar program, residence life programming, student clubs and organizations, student publications, and service learning.
With a well designed pre-post test program, data can be used to follow a targeted group of students or track the overall growth of cohorts of students to assess the long term and/or...