Ruth Deakin Crick is with the Graduate School of Education, the University of Bristol, UK. She has introduced the notion of the assessment of 'learning power' through seven dimensions. Crick and colleagues have implemented and tested this assessment internationally and in the U.S. in Chicago and San Diego.

Learning to LearnRuth Deakin Crick visited Carnegie in late 2009 to introduce the Effective Lifelong Learning Inventory (ELLI), a framework for assessing the seven dimensions of student learning: changing and learning, meaning making, critical curiosity, creativity, learning relationships, strategic awareness, and resilience.