SPRING TESTING
U.S. institutions administering CLA+, CWRA+, or SSA+ will be able to begin testing on Monday, January 25th.
International institutions will be able to begin testing in early March.
The testing window will close on Sunday, May 30th.
Assessing Essential College and Career Skills Since 2002
CAE’s performance-based assessments, CLA+, CWRA+, and SSA+, authentically measure students’ essential college and career skills, providing valid and reliable insights into their readiness for their next step.
Our assessments help complete the portrait of your students by assessing skills not typically taught in the curricula nor shown on a transcript – yet which are predictive of positive college and career outcomes.
Higher education and secondary education institutions can improve college and career outcomes by assessing students early in their academic journeys and providing appropriate developmental support.
A mission-driven, non-profit organization, CAE also partners with national, state, and district clients to design innovative custom assessments that measure the constructs most important to students, educators, and institutions.
Authentic Assessments through Performance Tasks
CAE’s assessments leverage a performance-task model to uniquely measure students’ ability to think critically, solve problems, and communicate.
CAE’s assessments allow students to apply knowledge and produce a response by incorporating:
- Real-world scenarios with engaging tasks
- Open-ended problems with no single correct solution
- Authentic documents from more- and less-credible sources that contain related and conflicting information
Are Your Students Ready for Their Next Step?
CAE’s assessment solutions and services help students, educators, and institutions answer critical questions including:
How ready are our students for their next step?
How can we support our students to increase their success in their next step?
How ready are our students compared to other students?
How ready are our exiting students relative to their expected performance?
How much growth in the essential readiness skills do our students show over time?
Valid and Reliable Assessments and Insights to Answer Your Questions
Next Step Assessment
Measure students’ readiness for their next step and identify opportunities for improvement
Learning Gains Study
Measure value-added and/or effect size by comparing the performance of your entering and exiting students
Efficacy
Study
Measure the effectiveness of specific educational interventions and programs
Custom Assessments
Measure the constructs most important to your students, educators, and institutions
Insights for Students & Institutions
Student reports provide actionable feedback to support student growth and improvement.
Micro-credentials provide assessment-based evidence of proficiency.
Detailed Subscore Report
Micro-credential
Mastery Level Distribution
Subscore Distribution
Institution reports help identify gaps in curricula and/or developmental support, measure value-added, and assess program effectiveness.
Details on rubrics and mastery levels are provided to identify next steps for improvement.
CAE, a non-profit provider of performance-based assessments, authentically measures students’ essential college and career skills.
Success-Focused
Measure critical thinking, problem solving, and written communication skills to create a more complete picture of students’ readiness for higher education and the workforce
Evidence-Based
Leverage reliable and valid assessments aligned to current assessment models, education research, and best practices – backed by 20+ years of research and use
Detailed Insights
Institutional and student level reports identify how you can best support students during their academic journey and increase their success in their next step.
Full Service
Access a full range of assessment services including custom performance-based assessment solutions, psychometrics, and more