Dr. Peter Facione is a principal at Measured Reasons LLC, a Los Angeles based research and consulting firm supporting excellence in strategic thinking and leadership decision making.

In private business Dr. Facione has worked as a strategic consultant with Stratus-Heery International and as managing partner of the California Academic Press. In academia he served as Provost of Loyola University Chicago, Dean of College Arts and Sciences of Santa Clara University and as Dean of the School of Human Development and Community Service at California State University Fullerton.

Dr. Facione's consulting work has included long term and short term projects for several branches of the US military, various NGOs and government agencies, professional associations, national labs and over sixty public and private universities and colleges throughout the US and around the world.

Dr. Facione maintains an active speaking, writing, consulting and research agenda, with well over 150 publications including essays, books, articles, case studies, and educational testing tools. His tools for assessing reasoning are used around the world.

Conference (business and education)

"Training and Measuring Leadership Decision Making"

This session maps the fundamental connections linking "leadership decision making," as practiced by business, military, health care leaders, professionals and workers, directly to the educational learning outcome known as "critical thinking." These fundamental connections make workplace decision making skills and mindset attributes objectively measurable, as demonstrated by data gathered using the INSIGHT series of reasoning skills and mindset instruments. The session includes data on employee groups working in high stakes professional settings showing sustained gains in thinking skills, and data indicating that these skills are predictive of workplace success. The fundamental connections mapped here enable practical projections about the potential effectiveness or ineffectiveness of various approaches to training employee thinking at all levels of the business or professional organizations.

Conference

"The Educational Power of Measuring Critical Thinking"

Data from instruments designed to measure critical thinking skills and mindset attributes reveal that there are vast differences in core reasoning skills and in the habits of mind within any given group of students, K-12 through post-baccalaureate. After quickly grounding the APA Delphi Report concept of critical thinking and how this internationally used concept of critical thinking has been successfully measured over the past 25 years, group dataset results are examined. What lessons can we learn about effective ways of teaching for thinking at all educational levels? How does critical thinking relate to learning in the disciplines? How does critical thinking connect with other cognitive skill domains, such as quantitative reasoning or effective writing? In education, we get what we measure. Most importantly, how can we use the measurement of critical thinking to empower educators and enable more effective student learning?