Academic Challenge

This theme includes four indicators:

Higher-Order Learning 

Challenging intellectual and creative work is central to student learning and collegiate quality. Colleges and universities promote high levels of student achievement by calling on students to engage in complex cognitive tasks requiring more than mere memorization of facts. This Engagement Indicator captures how much students coursework emphasizes challenging cognitive tasks such as application, analysis, judgment, and synthesis.

Reflective & Integrative Learning 

Personally connecting with course material requires students to relate their understandings and experiences to the content at hand. Instructors emphasizing reflective and integrative learning motivate students to make connections between their learning and the world around them, reexamining their own beliefs and considering issues and ideas from others' perspectives.

Learning Strategies

College students enhance their learning and retention by actively engaging with and analyzing course material rather than approaching learning as absorption. Examples of effective learning strategies include identifying key information in readings, reviewing notes after class, and summarizing course material. Knowledge about the prevalence of effective learning strategies helps colleges and universities target interventions to promote student learning and success. 

Quantitative Reasoning 

Quantitative literacy-the ability to use and understand numerical and statistical information in everyday life - is an increasingly important outcome of higher education. All students, regardless of major, should have ample opportunities to develop their ability to reason quantitatively - to evaluate, support, and critique arguments using numerical and statistical information.

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