English to Italian Social Sciences Education / Pedagogy

Cari colleghi,
sapete se esista una dicitura "standard" per tradurre il concetto di "academic reasoning", che viene spiegato nel brano riportato di seguito.
Grazie mille per ogni suggerimento e buona serata!


Tests of “academic reasoning” focus on the mental processes that underpin school and tertiary studies, rather than the specific knowledge and skills of particular academic disciplines. They can be thought of as general, generic or cross-curricular reasoning assessments.
The terms “general”, “generic” and “cross-curricular” refer to breadth of transferability. While reasoning processes are learned in a particular context, and their form varies from discipline to discipline, they do not have to be learned totally anew in each new context; that is, reasoning processes can be transferable.
Such tests assess students’ capacity to reason in a range of contexts, some of which will be familiar to the student, some of which will not. The expectation is that the wider the range of contexts in which students are able to reason, the more likely they are to be able to reason within contexts with which they have yet to become familiar. It is this expectation that leads people to label tests of this kind as “aptitude” tests.