Results from the California Critical Thinking Skills Test family are being used in educational programs to:

• measuring the effectiveness of curricular programs, instructional approaches or educational materials;
• obtaining objective data in individual admission decisions, placement or advising;
• responding to accreditation mandates to demonstrate the attainment of competent reasoning skills in program graduates;
• gathering data as a component of an educational research project.
• assessing the critical thinking skills of newly admitted students to help identify which of them requires focused training in reasoning skills;
• assessing the development of critical thinking skills as a competency of instructional staff members and classroom aides to help assure that they are able to support the development of these skills in children.