Welcome
For over 25 years, Insight Assessment has provided tools to measure critical thinking for clients who understand that a measure of an individual’s critical thinking ability is a reliable indicator of how they will perform when faced with new problems in high stakes and time-limited situations. As a world leader in the measurement of critical thinking, Insight Assessment has developed a uniquely comprehensive array of test instruments which includes tools designed for professional and academic use from the third grade through doctoral level. Each test has been designed to objectively measure the critical thinking skills and dispositions of test takers at targeted educational levels or with question content attuned to the interests of specific professional fields. Online or paper and pencil administration is available.
In English and in many authorized translations, these high quality instruments are in use with professionals, new hires, candidates, and students at every educational level by businesses, universities, schools, and government agencies.
No society, local or global, can sustain itself and flourish without its members learning to think well together.
Critical Thinking
Tools to Support Teaching and Learning
Whether clients are testing critical thinking for accreditation, learning outcomes, quality improvement, program evaluation, hiring or placement, we recognize that it is not enough for our clients to merely gather data about test takers. Effective assessment programs rely on the objective evidence gathered by our test instruments as part of a comprehensive solution to their critical thinking needs.
Insight Assessment researchers have been at the forefront of the critical thinking and assessment fields for over 25 years We believe critical thinking can and should be fostered, developed and assessed. Therefore we have developed the Tools to Support Teaching & Learning resource package for our testing clients. This 10 item information packet provides classroom support for students and faculty. It includes critical thinking teaching tools, rating tools & rubrics, examples on how to bring critical thinking to the classroom as well as Dr. Peter Facione’s definitive essay: "Critical Thinking: What it is and Why it Counts". These materials help clients prepare for a successful testing program and to explore how critical thinking skills and dispositions can be taught.
Insight Assessment provides world class objective measurements of critical thinking skills and habits of mind. Our clients depend on Insight Assessment test instruments to deliver valid and reliable data. Equally importantly, our clients know they can rely on Insight Assessment to provide excellent informed customer service and support. Our testing experts are ready to assist you in the development and implementation of your assessment program.
Characteristics of Strong Critical Thinkers
- inquisitiveness with regard to a wide range of issues
- concern to become and remain well-informed
- alertness to opportunities to use critical thinking
- self-confidence in one’s own abilities to reason
- open-mindedness regarding divergent world views
- flexibility in considering alternatives and opinions
- understanding of the opinions of other people
- fair-mindedness in appraising reasoning
- honesty in facing one’s own biases, prejudices, stereotypes, or egocentric tendencies
- prudence in suspending, making or altering judgments
- willingness to reconsider and revise views where honest reflection suggests that change is warranted
Based on the APA Expert Consensus Delphi Report description of strong critical thinkers.