This study gives a snapshot ofthe trends in strategic plans of ARL members. It shows that many ARL members do not produce an annual report, and that it istherefore difficult to assess if their strategic plans are implemented successfully.

This report describes self-reported attitudes and motivations of today's first-year college students throughout the nation, based on survey responses from a sizable sample of freshmen attending college during the academic year, 2011-2012. The primary focus of this report is on freshman attitudes as students began the fall term, but this year's report and its online addenda also examine how attitudes change as students progress through their classes.

To promote student thinking at various levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy, use the inner ring to identify the level of thinking and then select a verb from the middle ring. Link the verb selected from the middle level with a product listed in the outer ring to construct questions and assignments.

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There is little uniformity among the measures used to assess neurological function and behavioral health. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Toolbox initiative seeks to assemble brief, comprehensive assessment tools that will be useful to clinicians and researchers in a variety of settings, with a particular emphasis on measuring outcomes in longitudinal epidemiologic studies and prevention or intervention trials across the lifespan. Such measures are rarely included in studies of this type, due in part to the lack of brief, well-validated instruments.

The Toolbox will provide a valuable resource across NIH and the scientific community, by ensuring that assessment methods will be capable of comparison with existing and completed studies. Advances in psychometric research methodology, including computerized adaptive testing and virtual reality, combined with traditional performance-based tools, should lead to the efficient, flexible and responsive assessment of Cognition (such as learning, memory, executive function, language/lexical retrieval, visuospatial abilities, attention, speed of processing); Emotion (mood, adaptability, interpersonal relations, self- regulation); Motor Functioning (locomotion, non-vestibular balance, dexterity, strength); and Sensation (vision, hearing, vestibular balance, smell, taste, touch).

We take the total number of Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate and Advanced International Certificate of Education tests given at a school each year and divide by the number of seniors who graduated in May or June. I call this formula the Challenge Index.

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