Measuring hard-to-measure student competencies a research and development plan

Efforts to prepare students for college, careers, and civic engagement have traditionally emphasized academic skills, but a growing body of research suggests that interpersonal and intrapersonal competencies, such as communication and resilience, are important predictors of postsecondary success and...

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Main Authors: Stecher, Brian M., Hamilton, Laura S. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Santa Monica, CA RAND [2014]©2014, 2014
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Summary:Efforts to prepare students for college, careers, and civic engagement have traditionally emphasized academic skills, but a growing body of research suggests that interpersonal and intrapersonal competencies, such as communication and resilience, are important predictors of postsecondary success and citizenship. One of the major challenges in designing educational interventions to support these outcomes is a lack of high-quality measures that could help educators, students, parents, and others understand how students perform and monitor their development over time. This report provides guidelines to promote thoughtful development of practical, high-quality measures of interpersonal and intrapersonal competencies that practitioners and policymakers can use to improve valued outcomes for students
Item Description:"RAND Education."
Physical Description:xvii, 84 pages
ISBN:0833088068
9780833088062