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Work Force Development, Vocational & Occupational Education Programs

Training for critical thinking has become an increasing focus in work force development and occupational education. Employers know that job candidates who can think well can quickly and correctly learn the demands of their particular job. The goal of every strong program is to train its students to become the best graduates and job candidates possible.  Deans of Work Force Development, Vocational and Occupational Education programs are using Insight Assessment testing tools to identify those students with the strongest critical thinking skills and the desire to apply those skills. These candidates have outstanding potential to learn and to achieve to their maximum potential. 

Faculty can quickly and easily document the critical thinking of prospective or current undergraduate and graduate students. The data gathered with these tools are valuable for outcomes assessment, program evaluation, applicant advising, accreditation, and curricular research.

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 tests of critical thinking skills rely on case-based scenarios to provide objective, valid and reliable standardized measures of these essential problem solving and decision making skills. Our cost-effective testing tools can be normed to comparable undergraduate or graduate programs. Assessment solutions are available through on-line testing or paper-and-pencil testing. If you would like to discuss your testing needs or to learn more about our products, please use the Contact Us Form below.

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Insight Assessment Products

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 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. .
The CCT-G835 is designed to test personnel who have been selected, or are being selected, for positions that require strategic decision making, and for working professionals, scienti...
The HSRT is a test of critical thinking specifically designed for health sciences and health care professional preparation programs. Items require no health science knowledge but are...

Frequently Asked Questions

By raising awareness of the importance of critical thinking and particularly the positive critical thinking habit of endeavoring to think ahead to anticipate consequences, an organiz...
Many health care centers use our instruments as a component of hiring and for staff development purposes when their purpose is to assess critical thinking as a way to improve cl...
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...
Business critical thinking - the capacity to make timely, effective and well reasoned decisions - is absolutely essential for success. We can assist by gathering data to establish cu...
A critical thinking skills test engages you with questions that require you to apply your skills.  Typically a critical thinking test will present some information or a scenario...