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LaunchPad Solo for ACES (Academic and Career Excellence System - Six Month Access) by Paul A. Gore; Wade Leuwerke; A.J. Metz - First Edition, 2016 from Macmillan Student Store
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LaunchPad Solo for ACES (Academic and Career Excellence System - Six Month Access)

First Edition| ©2016 Paul A. Gore; Wade Leuwerke; A.J. Metz

LaunchPad Solo for ACES (The Academic and Career Excellence System) is an instrument developed to measure student strengths in 12 critical areas, both cognitive and non-cognitive. Created by counseling psychologists Paul Gore, Wade Leuwerke, and A.J. Metz, who have more than 30 year...
LaunchPad Solo for ACES (The Academic and Career Excellence System) is an instrument developed to measure student strengths in 12 critical areas, both cognitive and non-cognitive. Created by counseling psychologists Paul Gore, Wade Leuwerke, and A.J. Metz, who have more than 30 years combined experience in college success and assessment, the ACES instrument prompts students to reflect on their habits, behaviors, attitudes, and skills. Norm-referenced reports indicate whether students are at a high, moderate, or low skill level in particular areas, as compared to students in other colleges and universities across the country. It is available standalone or as part of a package at a low cost.
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Know your strengths: self-assessment for students, by experts, with instructors in mind

LaunchPad Solo for ACES (The Academic and Career Excellence System) is an instrument developed to measure student strengths in 12 critical areas, both cognitive and non-cognitive. Created by counseling psychologists Paul Gore, Wade Leuwerke, and A.J. Metz, who have more than 30 years combined experience in college success and assessment, the ACES instrument prompts students to reflect on their habits, behaviors, attitudes, and skills. Norm-referenced reports indicate whether students are at a high, moderate, or low skill level in particular areas, as compared to students in other colleges and universities across the country. It is available standalone or as part of a package at a low cost.

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Developed by experts. ACES has been created by psychologists Paul Gore, Wade Leuwerke, and A.J. Metz, who share more than 30 years combined experience in college success and assessment. They have created several leading, statistically-valid non-cognitive and cognitive assessments and have worked or consulted for a wide range of organizations including ACT, CampusLabs, and numerous universities.


Easy-to-use student self-assessment.
ACES has been designed with ease-of-use in mind. It takes students only 15-20 minutes to complete and offers intriguing questions in a clean, appealing interface, helping ensure student satisfaction and high participation rates.


Assessment across 12 key non-cognitive and cognitive skill areas.
Questions assess skills in a wide range of areas crucial to college success, including planning ahead (time management and career exploration), academic skills (reading, note taking, test taking), and life skills (goal setting, motivation, money management, health, interpersonal skills).


80+ empirically supported, statistically valid statements.
Questions have been thoroughly tested in a national pilot study and organized to obtain the clearest possible picture of students’ attitudes and skills. Reverse-scoring on select questions helps ensure that students provide the most accurate responses.


Targeted, thorough feedback
helps each student develop their next steps and a plan for achieving them. Students get feedback on their responses in each of the 12 skill areas. Each area is correlated as higher, moderate, or lower compared with the national sample. Feedback offers students an assessment of their current skills, encouragement to improve, and concrete suggestions for activities and resources to help them achieve their goals.


Individualized and class-level reports
give students and instructors the feedback they need to understand student strengths and weaknesses, and to formulate realistic plans for improvement. Data can be organized in several ways and output for use in standard quantitative programs like Excel and Qualtrix.


Specially designed to work with Connections, yet flexible enough to work with a range of texts or on its own.
ACES has been designed to work seamlessly with the Bedford/St. Martin’s text Connections, also written by the creators of this assessment. References and activities to students’ ACES score are integrated throughout Connections. The ease of use and powerful feedback also allows ACES to be used with any college success text or on its own.

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LaunchPad Solo for ACES (Academic and Career Excellence System - Six Month Access)

First Edition| ©2016

Paul A. Gore; Wade Leuwerke; A.J. Metz

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First Edition| 2016

Paul A. Gore; Wade Leuwerke; A.J. Metz

Table of Contents

ACES asks students about these areas, or scales:
  • Critical Thinking and Goal Setting
  • Motivation, Decision Making, and Personal Responsibility
  • Learning Preferences
  • Organization and Time Management
  • Reading
  • Note Taking
  • Memory and Studying
  • Test Taking
  • Information Literacy and Communication
  • Connecting with Others (Interpersonal Skills, Emotional Intelligence, & Diversity)
  • Personal and Financial Health
  • Academic and Career Planning
LaunchPad Solo for ACES (Academic and Career Excellence System - Six Month Access) by Paul A. Gore; Wade Leuwerke; A.J. Metz - First Edition, 2016 from Macmillan Student Store

LaunchPad Solo for ACES (Academic and Career Excellence System - Six Month Access)

First Edition| 2016

Paul A. Gore; Wade Leuwerke; A.J. Metz

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Paul A. Gore

Dr. Paul Gore

Paul’s efforts to promote college and career readiness, high school and college student persistence and academic success are informed by over twenty years of research, program development, implementation, evaluation, consulting and teaching. Paul currently serves as the Dean of the College of Professional Sciences at Xavier University in Ohio. Paul earned his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in student career development, academic success, and transition, from Loyola Univeristy - Chicago. He has held academic and administrative responsibilities at the University of Missouri – Kansas City, Southern Illinois University - Carbondale, ACT, Inc., and the University of Utah.

Paul’s work focuses on non-cognitive and motivational determinants of academic and career success. In particular, he is interested in how secondary and postsecondary institutions use data describing the non-cognitive strengths and weaknesses of their students to promote student success and retention. He regularly consults with secondary and postsecondary institutions in the United States and abroad on developing and evaluating student academic and career success programs.

Paul has authored over fifty peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. He is the past-chair of the Society for Vocational Psychology and served as an ddvisory board member for the National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and was the recipient of a 2013–2014 American Council on Education Emerging Leadership fellowship.


Wade Leuwerke

Dr. Wade C. Leuwerke

Wade is an associate professor of counseling at Drake University. He earned his Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Southern Illinois University–Carbondale. Wade has authored over fifty journal articles and book chapters, as well as national and international conference presentations. One of his areas of research is the assessment and development of student and employee non-cognitive skills. He co-created the Student Strengths Inventory, a measure of non-cognitive skills used with secondary and postsecondary students to identify students’ skills and drive interventions for students at risk of academic failure or dropout. Wade also studies the factors that predict college retention, the impact of computer-assisted career guidance systems on academic planning and career exploration behaviors, and the role of technology in career development processes.

Wade has experience examining school counselors’ roles and working with professional school counselors to positively impact students’ academic development, career and college exploration, and acquisition of personal and social skills that will prepare them for college and life beyond. He has worked with dozens of secondary and postsecondary institutions on a range of factors related to student success and persistence, including evaluation of institutional practices, use of data to drive student interventions, creation of individualized student success plans, training, strategic planning, resource allocation, and collaboration to promote student success. He has also worked as a research project manager focusing on academic and career development research for Kuder, Inc.; ACT, Inc.; Career Cruising; and intoCareers. Wade provides executive and career coaching for corporations and the federal government


A. J. Metz

Dr. A.J. Metz

A.J. is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Utah and serves as director of the master’s program in school counseling. She earned a M.Ed. in rehabilitation counseling in 1997 and a Ph.D. in urban education (with a specialization in counseling psychology) in 2005 from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Her research examining factors related to academic success and career development in underrepresented and underserved student populations has led to numerous journal articles, book chapters, conference presentations, workshops, grant proposals, and faculty in-service training sessions.

A.J. has extensive teaching, counseling, consulting, and career advising experience in high schools, community colleges, and four-year public and private institutions of higher education. Her passion for teaching motivates her to experiment with innovative teaching methods and develop new and engaging activities and instructional materials. In 2015 she received the University of Utah’s Early Career Teaching Award, and in 2017 she received the College of Education Teaching Award. She is the past president of the Utah Psychological Association and serves on multiple state-level task forces and advisory councils promoting school counseling, college access, and career readiness.

LaunchPad Solo for ACES (Academic and Career Excellence System - Six Month Access) by Paul A. Gore; Wade Leuwerke; A.J. Metz - First Edition, 2016 from Macmillan Student Store

LaunchPad Solo for ACES (Academic and Career Excellence System - Six Month Access)

First Edition| 2016

Paul A. Gore; Wade Leuwerke; A.J. Metz

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