Overview
The Core Logical Reasoning Assessment (CLRA) is an innovative cognitive ability assessment designed for organizational use. It supports evidence-based talent decisions by measuring abstract reasoning, pattern recognition, and logical problem-solving through non-verbal visual puzzles. The assessment supports evidence-based talent decisions by providing insights into an individual's reasoning ability while minimizing the influence of language, culture, and prior knowledge.
The CLRA uses a concise, adaptive testing format that typically takes less than 15 minutes to complete.
Key Features
Adaptive Design: Uses Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT) and a 2-Parameter Logistic (2PL) Item Response Theory model to efficiently estimate reasoning ability while maintaining precision, fairness, and a shorter assessment experience.
Validity and Reliability: Built on a robust psychometric foundation and validated using a global calibration sample of 4,410 participants. The CLRA demonstrates strong reliability, a unidimensional factor structure, and substantial convergent validity with established cognitive ability measures. The assessment also uses automatic item generation, enabling the item bank to continually expand while maintaining measurement precision.
Fairness: The CLRA undergoes ongoing fairness reviews, including Differential Item Functioning (DIF) analyses and adverse impact monitoring across demographic groups, supporting fair and equitable assessment outcomes.
Continuous Improvement
The CLRA is continually refined through expanded item pools, larger and more representative normative samples, ongoing fairness reviews, and additional validation research. Future enhancements include continued innovation in assessment design and further studies to strengthen the assessment's predictive validity across a wide range of workplace outcomes.
Learn More
For a detailed understanding of the CLRA’s theoretical foundations, methodologies, validation studies, and future development initiatives, download the full technical manual below.