The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Toolbox initiative seeks to assemble
brief, comprehensive assessment tools that will be useful to clinicians and
researchers in a variety of settings, with a particular emphasis on measuring
outcomes in longitudinal epidemiologic studies and prevention or intervention
trials across the lifespan. The Toolbox will ensure that assessment methods will
be capable of comparison with existing and completed studies. Advances in
psychometric research methodology, including computerized adaptive testing and
virtual reality, combined with traditional performance-based tools, should lead
to the efficient, flexible and responsive assessment of Cognition,
Emotion, Motor Functioning
and Sensation.