Looking at the academic progression (as measured by performance on the Collegiate Learning Assessment) of more than 2, 000 students at 24 different colleges, Arum and Roksa found that, for the first two years of college, 45 percent of students saw no significant gains in their CLA performance.

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Created in 2008 by the founders of YouNoodle, an online community for entrepreneurs, the assessment was based on traits start-ups shared with some 2, 000 companies that were more than three years old.

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