Research Catalog

Title

Measuring hard-to-measure student competencies : a research and development plan / Brian M. Stecher, Laura S. Hamilton.

Author

Stecher, Brian M.

Publication

Santa Monica : Rand Corporation, [2014]

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Additional Authors

• Hamilton, Laura S.,
• Rand Education (Institute) sponsoring body.

Description

xxvii, 84 pages; 23 cm

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.

Subject

• Behavioral assessment
• Character tests
• Interpersonal relations > Evaluation
• Students > Methodology
• Students > Psychology
• Students > Rating of > United States

Note

• "RR-863-WFHF."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 81-84).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Research and development guidelines -- Promoting high-quality measures : recommendations and challenges -- Conclusion.

ISBN

• 0833088068
• 9780833088062

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library