Figure 8 presents what a cross-mapping of ALL assessments to the framework looks like, placing the initials of each assessment in appropriate cells where assessments took place in the developmental phase.

Clearly, future assessment will need to expand across a wider range of abilities, creative abilities in particular. Although coping with novelty and flexible thinking are required in some of the assessments, none of the assessments are explicitly designed to tap flexible thinking and the ability to cope with novel kinds of tasks and situations. This is, of course, quite challenging, as these abilities are the most difficult ones to measure and the ones with which psychometricians have the least experience.

In many regards, the ALL assessments are venturing into new territory. Because the entire range of life skills is large, it may not be practical or desirable to address all of the cells in the life skills framework. Priority areas will have to be chosen. However, as efforts to develop assessments evolve, the framework can serve as a valuable method for identifying those priority areas, and for ensuring philosophical consistency across all of the assessments.