Should the spring 2014 debut of the new College Learning Assessment become the norm for college grads who aspire to career employment, there will be no rest for the assessment weary in the field of education.

Just when school-aged families began to think the ACT exam and end-of-course AP assessments administered during high school were the end-of-the-line for high stakes academic indicators, along comes a group called the Council for Aid to Education and its new tool for determining just how ready college graduates are for the workforce.

According the article Are You Ready for the Post-Collegiate SAT? by the Wall Street Journal’s Douglas Belkin on 8/25/13, seniors at 200 U.S. colleges will voluntarily take the new test designed to measure a college graduate’s true value to an employer in the global economy.

Other higher education seals-of-approval mentioned in the article include the MacArthur Foundation’s badge system for mastery of certain online skills, the Educational Testing Service’s Proficiency Profile certificates for critical thinking, reading, writing & math, and ACT, Inc.’s National Career Readiness Certificate.