Certainly costs are always a consideration, so Insight Assessment test specialists are committed to helping health science staff educators use the tools most economically. 

First identify who and what you want to test. Then select a test instrument calibrated for the test takers and desired outcomes.

• Most often health science educators begin with a pilot initiative (a single instrument that will provide information deemed valuable to both the employer and the employee). Successful assessment programs require identifying who will be taking the test and what will be assessed.
  • About half of our medical center customers begin with an initiative aimed at improving thinking skills (decreasing reasoning errors, improving high stakes decisions). 
    • The Health Sciences Reasoning Test is now used widely across the health science disciplines. The HSRT is a specialized form of the CCTST developed by a team headed by a health scientist (Dr. Noreen Facione, FAAN).
  • Many medical centers begin by assessing and developing improved habits of mind needed by strong decision-makers. Trusting that educational preparation programs have helped new hires gain thinking skills, they choose to first focus on hiring staff who are eager to engage difficult problems until they are resolved and vigilant about assessing the quality of their own judgment and those around them.
    • To do this, these programs use the CCTDI in their initial staff development and hiring. Whether they begin with critical thinking skills (able to think well) or dispositions (willing and eager to think well), once the value of these measures has been seen, many expand their critical thinking assessment programs to larger areas of the company and move to using both instruments in selective situations (new personnel assessment or hiring, for instance).
  • Insight Assessment offers a comprehensive range of test instruments.  If some of the identified test-takers in a health center program are not clinicians, Insight Assessment test specialists identify test instruments which are more generic and less health science focused. 
  • Medical centers are also choosing to use the Business Critical Thinking Skills Test to evaluate the high stakes critical thinking skills of leadership and administrators.

Consult with Insight Assessment Test Specialists who will assist you with designing and implementing a successful and cost effective assessment program.

• As part of the decision making process, you may choose to purchase a specimen kit for the test you are considering.  The Specimen Kit includes an sample copy of the test or an on-line preview as well as the test's User Manual. The Specimen Kit is included in new client initialization fee.
• You will be able to determine how the test will be administered (online or paper and pencil).
• You can discuss your reporting and analytic needs.

Once the goals of a new pilot testing program are set and test instruments selected, we recommend that you begin with a small number of tests, evaluate the results of your project as it unfolds and then purchase tests as needed.

Whether a testing program begins by measuring critical thinking skills (able to think well) or dispositions (willing and eager to think well), once the value of these measures has been seen, many health centers expand their critical thinking assessment programs to larger areas of the company and move to using both instruments in selective situations (new personnel assessment or hiring, for instance).

We understand the realities of cost to any agency, but nothing is more costly to a health care corporation than errors in judgment and poor clinical decisions. We are confident that using Insight Assessment measurement instruments like the CCTDI,  the HSRT or BCTST will provide you with both categorical evaluations and scores that compare your people to national groups, and also offer you insight into actual skill areas of strength and weakness.