Thinking Style Orientation Assessment Test
How the Scales are Structured
Who Usually Takes This Test?
See How You Compare
Below is a preview of how scores are typically distributed across each scale.
Once you complete the test, your result will appear on the scale so you can see how you compare.
Example Questions From the Test
- exploring interesting phenomena and identifying new patterns.
- creating useful products that are practical and reliable.
- knowledge in a specific field.
- competence in work.
- Knowledge in various areas, broad learning, academic achievement.
- Independent problem-solving, resourcefulness, practical skills.
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Thinking Style Orientation Assessment Test - Symptoms and Signs
This instrument is designed to characterize an individual’s orientation toward practical, action-focused thinking versus more abstract or imaginative approaches. The Thinking Style Orientation Assessment provides a brief self-report profile intended to support clinical or educational impressions of how a person typically engages with tasks and goals.
The measure includes 33 items and typically takes about 7 minutes to complete. Items reflect preference for concrete outcomes, task-focused problem solving, and translating ideas into actionable steps, which may be relevant to academic planning, vocational guidance, or treatment planning when goal-directed functioning is a focus.
Scoring yields an index of practical thinking orientation that can be integrated with interview data and other assessment results. The Thinking Style Orientation Assessment is attributed to Robert J. Sternberg and Richard E. Petty.