The Missing Piece
for Future Readiness
Empower Students with Higher-Order Skills for
College, Career & Life Readiness
Prepare Students Today for the Jobs of Tomorrow — Measure and Teach Higher-Order Skills
Critical thinking, problem solving, and written communication are consistently ranked by employers as the most important skills, across fields.
Using CAE’s performance-based assessments and critical thinking instructional materials, K–12 school districts and higher education institutions can support the development of the skills students will need for their next steps — whether that’s continued education, the military, or the workforce.
The CAE Higher-Order Skills Solution
Our flexible, customizable solutions for K–12 and higher education include:
- Materials to support the explicit instruction of future-ready skills like critical thinking, problem solving, and written communication
- Performance-based assessments to measure and monitor the growth of students’ higher-order skills and to allow them to demonstrate these skills in content area assessments
- Professional development to help educators effectively use performance-based assessment and integrate critical thinking instruction and practice across content areas
CAE is your partner in education innovation. Using our Higher-Order Skills Solution, your institution can help students build both the content knowledge AND higher-order skills they’ll need wherever their next steps take them.
Have Specific Skills You Want to Measure?
CAE, formerly part of the RAND Corporation, partners with national and state organizations as well as higher education institutions and school districts to design innovative custom assessments to measure the knowledge and skills most important to your educators, students, and community.
Used by 850,000 students at over 1,300 institutions worldwide
We realized we needed to enhance students’ skills in the areas most in demand by employers, so we launched a program with CAE to strengthen them. We were extremely pleased with the initial results and are excited to expand this relationship with the experts at CAE.