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Critical Thinking Skills & Mindset www.insightassessment.com Why Assess Critical Thinking? Critical thinking is more important for survival than reading, writing or mathematics. If the failed learning outcome is critical thinking

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Critical Thinking Skills & Mindset

www.insightassessment.com

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Critical thinking is more important for survival than reading, writing or mathematics.

Why Assess Critical Thinking?

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If the failed learning outcome is critical thinking

lawsuits * patient deaths * lost revenue * workplace injuries * ineffective law enforcement * job loss * imprisonment * combat casualties * traffic accidents* financial mismanagement * preventable health concerns* family violence * * … * … * … * … *

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Why Insight?

  • Assessments based on 30 years of research
  • Thousands of academic, business, & healthcare clients
  • Clients in all 50 states and 60 countries globally
  • History with all major grant funding organizations
  • Over 200 dissertations published worldwide
  • Thousands of citations on Google searches
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Measures derived from the APA Delphi research study

Expert Consensus Supported by APA Done for teaching and assessment Adopted by educators & businesses worldwide Download Executive Summary from out Website

Independent validation of the Delphi definition

  • f CT by a Penn State federally funded survey
  • f educators, business professionals, and

government officials.

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To prepare students who are both willing and able to solve today’s problems train and assess critical thinking skills & mindset. Some QEPs focus on skills, some on mindset, and some on both.

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Selecting the best tool for assessing critical thinking skills:

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Health Sciences Business Undergraduate & Graduate Military Science Legal Studies

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Critical Thinking Skills: Score Package

  • Overall Critical Thinking Skills Score
  • National Norm Percentile Ranking
  • Recommended Performance Rating
  • Analysis
  • Inference
  • Evaluation
  • Inductive Reasoning
  • Deductive Reasoning

ALL SKILLS TESTS PROVIDE: New versions

  • Interpretation
  • Explanation
  • Numeracy
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Selecting the best tool for assessing critical thinking mindset:

www.insightassessment.com

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Critical Thinking Mindset

TRUTHSEEKING OPENMINDEDNESS ANALYTICITY SYSTEMATICITY CONFIDENCE IN REASONING INQUISITIVENESS MATURITY OF JUDGMENT Attributes of the Ideal Critical Thinker CCTDI: available in 19 languages

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Spreadsheets

  • f individual scores

and graphics displaying score distributions.

Online or Paper & Pencil Administration

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Health Science Reasoning Test

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A Pretest Posttest Model

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This Undergrad Business School Sample Mean = 25.3 Undergrad National Mean Norm Groups: Undergrad MBA Top Tier Schools

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MAKE 2014 A THINKING YEAR

Classroom support materials offered with every test adoption

  • 1. Student & faculty focused essay: “Critical Thinking: What it is and why it counts 2011”
  • 2. Group thinking tool: Critical Thinking in Groups
  • 3. Writing rubric: Rubric for evaluating written arguments (REWA)
  • 4. Course evaluation form: Critical Thinking learning assessment
  • 5. Rubric for self & peer assessment: Holistic critical thinking scoring rubric (HCTSR)
  • 6. Classroom pedagogical aid: Questions to fire up critical thinking skills
  • 7. Journaling pedagogical aid: Critical Thinking Reflective log
  • 8. Student focused essay: “Evaluating credibility of sources”
  • 9. Thinking Exercise: Critical Thinking Self Evaluation Form

New materials added regularly

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Online & Paper & Pencil

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  • Quick and easy to set up at your institution
  • Test with one or more instruments
  • Convenient data management
  • Easy to use testing interface
  • Individual student score reports
  • Downloadable group datasets
  • Customizable to fit your testing design
  • Multisite testing capability
  • Available 24/7
  • LMS delivery option

Secure ONLINE Testing

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Online testing offers the option

  • f providing students

with a printable individual assessment report.

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Online Price Quote Request Form

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Strong Critical Thinking Anticipates Consequences

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Critical Thinking Skills & Mindset www.insightassessment.com 650-697-5628

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