Improve your hiring process by assessing for high ability and potential with the industry standard measure of critical thinking ability.
| Use | Gradutes, Execs and Managerial, Supervisors, Professionals |
| Format | 40 items, 30 mins timed |
| Languages | English, French, Dutch, Spanish, Swedish |
| Price | Available on Request |
The Watson Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal is a timed online test. Applicants are allowed a maximum of 30 minutes to complete the test. Along with test instructions and untimed practice questions, the total time to administer may be up to 40 minutes.
The critical thinking test comprises of 40 items (questions) that include a new bank of business-relevant questions suitable for international use.
Multi-lingual: The test is available in a number of languages including:
Suitable for unsupervised (unproctored) screening of job applicants due to its ‘item-bank’ design whereby questions are randomly selected from a large pool. It is also suitable for online completion in a supervised environment such as assessment or development centres. A wide variety of norm groups are available. Bespoke norms can be created.
Two reports are currently available for Watson Glaser-lll:
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Watson-Glaser is a verbal ability test measuring critical thinking ability—defined as the ability to look at a situation and clearly understand it from multiple perspectives while separating facts from opinions and assumptions.
The W-G III test and profile reports will be available in following languages:
W-G II Forms D and E are still available, but W-G III is most appropriate if an unproctored/unsupervised administration is preferred.
Each W-G III item is coded by difficulty on a finely incremented scale. The tests may differ slightly in difficulty overall, but this is accounted for in the scoring system. The passages in the test are coded by content theme and categorised by area (Business, Science, Education, etc.). This ensures that each test is built with an equal number of items, difficulty levels, and content themes, and that each candidate receives an adequate number of business-related passages.
Various other test rules control for factors such as word count, so reading requirements are similar across test versions.
An overall percentile score is presented and also individual percentile scores for the three subscales:
The Number Correct, T-score, STANINE score, and STEN score are reported in the Additional Technical Information section of the candidate’s Profile Report.
Use the percentile rank or one of these standardised score that takes into account item-difficulty differences of administrations to compare scores. Candidate raw scores, called theta scores, are converted to percentiles and available in the platform dashboard.
The Development Report aids in constructing a custom learning and development plan to enhance an individual’s skills in the areas of critical thinking. This report is available with W-G II and will be available with W-G III (timed and untimed) in 2018 in US English only.
This report enables interviewers to conduct a structured, critical thinking behavioral interview with sample questions. It will only be available with W-G II forms D and E until further notice.
For W-G III the total number of correct responses is NOT the raw score that is used to create the percentile and standardized scores. W-G III test takers are presented with varying items sets that differ slightly in difficulty, so little can be inferred from traditional number correct.
The scoring system takes into account the exact difficulty level of the items each person has completed to calculate an estimate of their ability—a theta score—which is converted to a percentile for interpretation purposes.
W-G III is timed and respondents are allowed a maximum of 30 minutes to complete the test. Along with test instructions and untimed practice questions (which are not part of the 30 minutes) the total time to administer may be up to 40 minutes. An untimed W-G III is available in the US but this is recommended for use in a development context or when reasonable accommodations must be made during recruitment.
W-G III, when timed, provides the type of standardised testing conditions that are appropriate when scores are used to make high stakes decisions.
Norms derived from previous versions of the Watson-Glaser will still be available. These have been statistically mapped to W-G III, so they are still appropriate and equivalent.
It is not possible to transfer inventory.
Generally the test can be linked, but contact us for further information.
Yes, it may be possible to map custom norms to W-G III for a fee. Please contact our Customer Service team for further information.
Yes, W-G II Forms D and E are equivalent to W-G III and available in paper in certain languages. Percentiles from these tests can be compared to WG III percentiles (provided the same norm comparison group is used). Paper tests should be completed only under supervised conditions.
If you suspect that a candidate cheated on the assessment, you may retest the candidate in a supervised setting, using the online W-G III or W-G II forms D or E paper tests. If the test was completed unsupervised for screening purposes, you should consider re-testing the candidate at a later stage in the process.
We recommend that the W-G III be completed on a desktop or laptop computer with a dependable internet connection.
