Insight Assessment provides multilingual critical thinking testing instruments and training solutions for students, applicants, workers and leaders. We specialize in assisting clients develop and implement successful plans to improve the thinking skills and mindset of individuals and groups.
Training
INSIGHT Development Program offers a series of online thinking skills and mindset enrichment modules with accompanying exercises, access to an assessment metric and performance reporting tools. Organizations use these development training modules to strengthen critical thinking skills and foster a positive thinking mindset at every level. An analysis of skills and mindset attributes using our industry leading assessments is included for each trainee. These modules can be offered as self-teaching or to supplement existing training programs. More on Training
Assessments
Critical Thinking
What is Critical Thinking?
"Critical thinking is skeptical without being cynical. It is open-minded without being wishy-washy. It is analytical without being nitpicky. Critial thinking can be decisive without being stubborn, evaluative without being judgmental, and forceful without being opinionated." Dr. Peter Facione
Fifteen Positive Examples of Critical Thinking
We all encounter opportunities in our daily lives to engage problems and decisions using strong critical thinking. Everyone needs to think ahead, to plan and to problem solve. Here are fifteen positive examples of critical thinking:
Why is Critical Thinking important?
Successful performance in business, health care, government service, and education requires fair-minded decision making, anticipation of consequences, and the evaluation of options and actions. Studies, have consistently shown that strength in critical thinking correlates with workplace and academic success, certification and licensure in the most valued professions, and survival of some of life’s most difficult challenges.
Educators Must Be Strong Thinkers to be Effective Teachers
It is not a new idea that educators must personally be strong thinkers to be effective teachers. The best teachers are engaged in a life-long effort to improve their own thinking skills and mindset attributes, constantly attentive to how well they are recognizing and analyzing problems, how well they have resolved them, and where they may be unknowingly and habitually committing common reasoning errors.