The Worldview Test platform
Our online platform — built around the Worldview Test — offers a suite of functionalities for education, organisational development, and research. Nearly 100,000 people from over 200 countries have used the platform to explore their worldviews. To our knowledge, the Worldview Test is the only research-based worldview measurement of its kind.
The platform is simple to use, while enabling deep exploration. Whether you’re an educator wanting to bring worldview awareness into your classroom, an organizational leader seeking to understand the culture of your team, or a researcher studying how worldviews relate to attitudes and behaviours — the platform has tools for you.
Getting started is free. You can use the Worldview Test with groups of up to 28 people at no cost — including access to group results and the worldview-diverse subgrouping feature. For larger groups or access to additional functionality — including the Culture Scan report and Research Tools — you can get a Platform Play subscription.
Explore the Worldview Landscape
Curious about what the major worldviews look like? Our research identifies four major worldview orientations in contemporary (Western) society — traditional, modern, postmodern, and integrative — each with distinct values, assumptions, and ways of relating to self, others, nature, and the future.
Learn about the four worldviews →
Group Testing
Invite any group to take the Worldview Test — a class, a team, a workshop, a conference — and instantly access collective results. The group overview shows the distribution of worldviews within your group, making visible the diversity of perspectives present.
This is a powerful starting point for meaningful conversations about how worldviews shape what we think, value, and do. Educators use it to open up reflective dialogues in class. Facilitators use it to ground their workshops in participants’ actual perspectives. Leaders use it to understand the worldview landscape within their organisation.
How it works: create a group test on the platform, share the test link with your participants, and view the results in real time. Individual results are anonymous; the group overview shows aggregate patterns.
Worldview-Diverse Groups
Use this feature to compose subgroups with maximum worldview diversity. It will offer you a list of the subgroups and — if you wish, send people in the different groups a group-email allowing them to immediately connect and set-up a group meeting.
This is especially powerful in educational and workshop settings where you want participants to engage across difference. Research on perspective-taking, creativity, and collaborative problem-solving consistently shows that diverse groups produce richer outcomes, provided the conditions for constructive exchange are in place. The Worldview Journey and our SoC dialogue method provide exactly those conditions.
The feature can also be set to create groups with minimum diversity (maximum similarity) — useful when you want people to explore shared assumptions or build confidence before engaging across difference.
How it works: the platform creates a form that your participants can access through a link. Filling it out takes only 30 seconds. People self-identify their worldview, and potentially other variables you want to use to diversify your groups with. The platform then creates the groups for you.
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Culture Scan
The Culture Scan is a comprehensive PDF report on the worldview distribution within your group or organisation. It combines Worldview Test results with insights from organisational theory — drawing on the work of Frederic Laloux, who identified how different worldviews manifest in distinct organisational models (Traditional–Conformist, Modern–Achievement, Postmodern–Pluralist, Integrative–Evolutionary).
The Culture Scan helps leaders, consultants, and educators understand the worldview dynamics shaping their group’s culture: where there is alignment, where there are tensions, and where there may be untapped potential for development. It can serve as a diagnostic tool, a conversation starter, or a foundation for intentional culture change.
How it works: set up a group test through the platform, have your participants take the Worldview Test, and download the Culture Scan report directly from your results dashboard — alongside access to demographics, worldview distributions, and question-level data.
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Research Tools
Research Tools allows you to use the Worldview Test with your own study group, analysing the generated test results in combination with your own data.
How it works:
Because the Worldview Test data are anonymous, each research participant needs to be connected with a unique research ID. This allows you to combine their worldview data with your other data sources for more comprehensive analysis. The platform guides you through this process in three steps:
- Create unique test links. Using our template spreadsheet, generate a unique test-taker link for each research participant, containing their personal research ID. This allows you to connect their anonymous Worldview Test results with your external data about them.
- Invite your participants. Craft your invitation email and send each participant their unique link. You can use a free email service like Mailchimp or Brevo to automate this process. Informed consent is built in: participants are asked to give consent for using their responses for research purposes.
- Download your data. Once your participants have taken the Test, download the results in CSV format — ready to combine with other data sources and analyse with your preferred statistical software.
This entire process is well-supported on our testing platform, with detailed researcher instructions available within your dashboard.
What researchers use it for:
The Worldview measurement tool and/or platform have been used in research projects worldwide, studying topics from bushfire management in Australia and indigenous climate resilience in Mexico to self-directed learning in South Africa and perceptions of geo-engineering in Canada. The Worldview test is grounded in research published in Environmental Science & Policy (De Witt et al., 2016).
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For questions about using the platform for research, get in touch.