Because the testing tools sold through Insight Assessment
are used for a variety of high stakes assessment, evaluation,
and research projects, test security is vitally important.
The capacity of the user to correctly administer the testing
instruments and to correctly interpret the data and scale
scores is equally important for the quality of the findings
which derive from their use. Because of considerations like
these, Insight Assessment reserves the right not to honor
purchase or use requests. On the other hand, in support of
the development of new scholars and the expansion of our scientific
understanding of critical thinking and human reasoning, we
do wish to encourage doctoral students, and occasionally masters
students, to use our assessment tools, provided that test
security is assured, that the tools will be administered correctly,
and that resulting data will be analyzed and interpreted correctly
and responsibly.
Graduate
students conducting research under supervision of a faculty
member, including thesis and dissertation research wishing
to use the assessment tools published by California Academic
Press LLC must submit a letter describing the project and
a support letter from the faculty member who is the student's
project supervisor / advisor / thesis or dissertation director.
Faculty Supervisor's Letter
(1) should be on the institution's letterhead and should
include
(2) should include the name, title, and institutional
affiliation of the faculty member [e.g. Dr. Susan Smith,
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology College of
Arts and Sciences, Loyola University],
(3) a statement in which the faculty member affirms
that she or he is working with you or supervising or advising
or directing you on the specific project for which you are
purchasing testing materials,
(4) the name of the project, or title of the thesis
or dissertation, and a one or two sentence description.
(5) a statement that the faculty member takes responsibility,
along with you, for the security of the testing materials,
and
(6) an acknowledgment that the testing materials are
protected by US and international copyright laws and are
the intellectual and scholarly property of the copyright
holders.
Insight
Assessment will accept orders and credit card information,
but we do not ship testing materials until the faculty member's
letter has been received.
Graduate
Student's Letter
You should send a letter or an e-mail which includes at
least the following
(1) the name of your faculty supervisor whom you
have asked to send the faculty letter described above,
(2) the title and a very brief description of your
project, thesis, or dissertation,
(3) a rough estimate of the quantities of tests you
may be using and the time frame for your use of those materials
[e.g. "Although my plans could change, at this point
I expect to use the CM3 Level II and the HSRT on-line to
gather pretest and posttest data from 50 subjects during
the coming academic year."]
(4) a statement that you will safeguard the security
of all testing materials, and
(5) an acknowledgment that the testing materials
are protected by US and international copyright laws and
are the intellectual and scholarly property of the copyright
holders
(6) contact information in case we need to be in
touch with you for any reason relating to your order(s)
or the scoring, use, or interpretation of the testing materials.
Doctoral students: Insight Assessment will sell directly
to doctoral students engaged in dissertation research.
Masters
degree students: Make arrangements with your sponsoring
faculty advisor for that advisor to purchase instruments.
Further
Restrictions: We do not sell or supply tests to graduate
students for purposes of classroom psychometric or educational
analysis, evaluation, or critique.
Insight
Assessment reserves the right not to sell to students
enrolled in programs which use its tools for high stakes
assessment.
For
complete details see on test purchasing restrictions Click
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