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If you are interested in using our any of our assessments as a researcher, educator, consultant, coach, or counselor, please
contact us. We do not sell assessments directly to the public, but anyone who registered on the site is welcome to use our free surveys or instruments, the STC, NTS, SMS, DOS, DCS, and CPS.
At DTS, we specialize in creating and delivering richly informative developmental assessments. All of our assessments are designed to be embedded in virtuous cycles of learning—a series of goal–action–feedback loops that support the optimal development of knowledge and skills over time. In virtuous cycles, assessments provide rich personal feedback that helps learners (along with their teachers or mentors) select their next goal.
Educators call assessments that provide rich feedback formative assessments, and these are usually viewed as different from summative assessments, which are used to evaluate capability or provide scores for research purposes. Assessments that can be used for both purposes are rare, primarily due to the poor statistical reliability of most formative assessments. All of our developmental assessments are more than reliable enough to be used in both summative and formative contexts. See our literature page for specific articles about our assessments and the methods we use to create them.
DTS participates regularly in academic research. Recent projects include:
- the development of reasoning about Mind, Brain, and Education in Harvard's Graduate School of Education MBE students
- the development of reasoning about Mind, Brain, and Education at the University of Texas at Arlington
- the development of leadership decision making in Australian legal and health care managers
- the development of leadership decision making in medical and legal managers
- a dissertation exploring the development of perspective taking using DiscoTest data
- a longitudinal study of the development of leadership decision making in several hundred city managers participating in a leadership development curriculum delivered by Clear Impact
- growth in reflective judgment following a critical thinking program
- the development of global consciousness and conflict resolution among primary, secondary, and college students
- Friends Central School LIMA
- an examination of leadership decision making in a US military academy
- growth in developmental pedagogy and reflective judgment in an environmental program for science educators
- a longitudinal examination of mindfulness in in a course that uses the SMS, SMJ, and LSMA to support student reflection and growth
- an examination of the differential effects of 4 leadership programs in a large international bank