Measuring Reasoning Skills and Mindset

Measuring Reasoning Skills and Mindset includes discussions about quality, validity and reliability in measuring thinking.

Insight Assessment Support of Research

Our commitment to improving thinking The Insight Assessment team is proud of our contribution to research studies of human reasoning and decision making. We are committed to offering researchers, doctoral students and community service agencies reduced pricing through our internal grant program. We have provided discount pricing for the past 30 years for research across the disciplines conducted by non-profit organizations when the aims of the research involves the science of human reasoning, the training of thinking skills and mindset, problem recognition and resolution, risk reduction, or the study of key decision makers. We have provided support in the form…

Quality, Validity and Reliability

At Insight Assessment we take the measurement of reasoning skills and mindset seriously.Our assessment instruments are developed by Measured Reasons LLC, an organization that brings together scientists with decades of research experience and measurement tool design expertise. After years of work and validation research, critical thinking skills tests were first published in 1990 and first mindset measures in 1992.The construct validity of these measures rests on their close alignment with those described in the consensus definition of critical thinking skills and dispositions defined in the APA Delphi Report, and with internationally endorsed terminology for describing human reasoning skills and the mindset…

Measuring Reasoning Skills

A list of scales used by Insight Assessment test instruments to measure core components of critical thinking and reasoning skills.

Measuring Mindset Attributes

A list of the scales used by Insight Assessment test instruments to measure core attributes of a critical thinking mindset.