The questions you ask shape the thinking students do.
QI Tool™ is an educator-facing system that analyzes classroom and exam questions across six original ELM thinking levels — so instructors can see, at a glance, the kind of cognition their assessments are actually demanding.
An original cognitive ladder. Not Bloom's Taxonomy.
The ELM thinking levels were developed inside the Effort Learning Model™ to map the actual cognitive moves students make. They overlap with no other framework and are designed for classroom use.
Recognition and recall. The facts as stated.
Restating and defining. Making meaning explicit.
Using a concept inside a familiar context.
Breaking apart relationships, comparing, contrasting.
Judging quality, weighing evidence, defending a stance.
Generating new structure, synthesis, original work.
Drop in your questions. See the thinking they require.
- Step 01Upload or paste
Paste a quiz, exam, problem set, or discussion prompt.
- Step 02Auto-classify
Each question is mapped to one of the six ELM thinking levels.
- Step 03See the distribution
A clear breakdown of where the cognitive demand actually lives.
To develop deeper thinking — not test for surface recall.
Most assessments cluster at Surface and Clarify without anyone noticing. QI Tool™ makes the imbalance visible, so instructors can deliberately raise the cognitive ceiling of what they ask.