LectaTests are our adult assessments
Lectica's adult assessments are used by accredited coaches, consultants, and educators to support optimal learning in business, government, and education.
Every LectaTest targets a specific set of practical skills and concepts, such as those involved in leadership decision-making, ethical reasoning, mindfulness, or self-understanding. For example, the LDMA, our leadership decision-making assessment, examines skills like collaborative capacity. decision-making process, contextual reasoning, and perspective coordination. And like all of our assessments, it is accompanied by rich diagnostics and personalized learning suggestions.
Lectica Inside
Lectica Inside assessments are sold in bulk and priced accordingly. They are scored primarily with CLAS, our electronic scoring system. They are ideal for development, evaluation, and research contexts.
Basic features include:
- limited human review of CLAS scores,
- a single dilemma for all participants who take the assessment at a particular time,
- personal access to Lectical Scores for registered Account Managers, and
- the standard Lectica Inside report, populated with VCoLs selected by a Certified Lectical Coach, Educator, or Consultant.
Report features that can be customized include:
- the date on which individual test-takers first see their reports, and
- whether or not (or when) individual test-takers are shown their Lectical Scores.
Branding customizations include:
- the client's company name and logo on the assessment and report pages (same for all test-takers),
- the client's custom text on the test-taker information page (same for all test-takers), and
- the client's custom text at the top of reports (same for all test-takers).
Lectica Inside assessments can be upgraded to Essentials or Essentials Plus.
Essentials
Essentials assessments are designed to support individual development. They are primarily used in one-on-one or small group coaching or training.
Essentials assessments include all of the features of Lectica Inside assessments, plus:
- human review of all CLAS scores,
- a dilemma selected for the individual test-taker,
- personalized VCoLs selected by a Certified Lectical Coach, Educator, or Consultant, and
- a Clarity report that includes subscores with interpretations.
Essentials+
Essentials+ assessments are designed to provide coaches, consultants, or educators with the maximum amount of information that can be gleaned from assessment responses.
Essentials+ assessments include all of the features of Essentials assessments, plus reports showing results for human-coded scales, including:
- VUCA or CAOS skills, and
- Projected growth.
There is also an Essentials++ report that is used in high stakes situations. For this version of the report, a second analyst reviews all scores.
Lectical Decision-making Assessment
Good leadership is impossible without skilled decision-making. Today’s leaders need the ability to effectively anticipate, diagnose, and address complex problems that involve multiple stakeholders. They must also have communication skills that allow them to bring others along with them, while leveraging their knowledge and skills. Finally, they must be able to navigate the tensions and ambiguities that characterize today's complex workplace.
The LDMA is focused on a set of skills for leading in VUCA conditions (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity). The specific skills targeted in the LDMA fall into four categories—collaborative capacity, perspective coordination, contextual thinking, and decision-making process.
The LDMA provides an accurate assessment of these skills by asking leaders to grapple with a common workplace decision situation (e.g., dealing with a difficult employee, resolving a workplace conflict, or leading change). Test-takers respond to questions that focus on framing, developing solutions, and the decision-making process.
Lectical Reflective Judgment Assessment
Every action we take is based upon a set of assumptions we hold about the world. But how have we come to know what we know? Our ability to gather evidence, discern truths, and make reasoned decisions rests on a core skill called reflective judgment—our capacity for understanding and questioning what we know. The LRJA is designed to measure and strengthen reflective judgment—the backbone of well-reasoned, thoughtful action.
The LRJA is focused on a set of skills that are required for managing CAOS™ (Competing ideas, Accelerating change, information Overload, and Social division). The specific skills targeted in the LRJA fall into four categories—working with perspectives, conflict resolution, evaluating evidence, and thinking and deciding.
The LRJA asks test-takers to respond to an "ill-structured" dilemma—one without a clear answer—involving questions about truth, knowledge, conflict, and certainty. They explore how knowledge is generated, how to gather and evaluate information, the nature of facts and reality, and how to approach and resolve conflicts.