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Expressive Cognition — Verbal Reasoning Profile
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Verbal Reasoning
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Advanced English
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Verbal Reasoning
Six Things Your Speech Reveals About How You Think
On spontaneous speech and the architecture of reasoning
Spontaneous speech reveals the architecture of a person’s reasoning in ways that written language, carefully edited conversation, and standardized tests do not. The signal is in the structure, not the surface.
The Thought Before the Sentence
On speech, cognition, and what we fail to measure
Even a speech prepared down to the last clause becomes, in the moment of delivery, a different kind of act. Something is happening that composition alone cannot account for.
How to Measure Verbal Reasoning — and Why Most Tests Get It Wrong
On the gap between processing language and generating it
The way you reason and the way you perform that reasoning under pressure are not the same thing. And almost no assessment tool measures the difference.
Advanced English
The Articulate Non-Native Speaker
On multilingual reasoning and the instruments that fail to measure it
A student who reasons sophisticatedly in their first language does not lack cognitive academic language proficiency. They lack the English-language vehicle for expressing a capacity they already have.