coe-staff: Patrick Kyllonen Colloquium: Advances and Challenges in Assessing Social and Emotional Skills - Fri 5/20 @ 11:30am

[Denise McKenney]

Educational Methodology, Policy and Leadership (EMPL) is pleased to announce the following colloquium:

PATRICK C. KYLLONEN
Educational Testing Service (ETS)

Advances and Challenges in Assessing Social and Emotional Skills
Friday, May 20, 2016
119 Lokey Education Bldg
11:30am - 1:00pm
Lunch provided

Research has shown that social and emotional skills, such as grit, growth mindset, and collaboration, may be as important for success in the school and the workplace as cognitive skills are, as shown in several large-scale longitudinal studies and recent meta-analyses. There is good evidence that schools play a critical role in the development of social-emotional skills. As a result, policy makers and K-12 educators have expressed interest in assessing them for the purposes of enhancing development, growth monitoring, and accountability. However, there are concerns about measurement. In this talk I review evidence for the importance of social-emotional skills, and discuss measurement concerns. These include terminology issues, ratings limitations (e.g., response style bias, reference group effects, socially desirable responding), difficulties in measuring growth, cross-group comparability, and motivation effects. I discuss approaches for measuring social-emotional skills that address these concerns, in the categories of survey methods (e.g., forced-choice, anchoring vignettes, others' ratings), administrative records (e.g., grades, attendance), and performance measures (e.g., collaborative problem solving, creativity, situational judgment tests). I conclude with a discussion of the prospects for routine social-emotional skills assessment in schools.


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Biosketch
Patrick Kyllonen is Senior Research Director of the Center for Academic and Workforce Readiness and Success at Educational Testing Service (ETS) in Princeton, N.J. Center scientists conduct innovative research on (a) noncognitive assessment for K-12 and higher education, (b) behavioral assessment for workforce readiness; (c) international large scale assessment (e.g., Program for International Student Assessment; PISA); and (d) 21st century skills assessment, such as creativity, collaborative problem solving, and situational interviews. Dr. Kyllonen received his B.A. from St. John's University and Ph.D. from Stanford University and is author of Generating Items for Cognitive Tests (with S. Irvine, 2001); Learning and Individual Differences (with P. L. Ackerman & R.D. Roberts, 1999); Extending Intelligence: Enhancement and New Constructs (with R. Roberts and L. Stankov, 2008), and Innovative Assessment of Collaboration (with A. von Davier and M. Zhu, forthcoming). He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Educational Research Association, recipient of The Technical Cooperation Program Achievement Award for the "design, development, and evaluation of the Trait-Self Description (TSD) Personality Inventory," and coauthored the National Academy of Sciences reports, Education for Life and Work: Developing Transferable Knowledge and Skills in the 21st Century (2012), Measuring Human Capabilities (2014), and Assessing Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Competencies (forthcoming).


Denise McKenney
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Educational Methodology, Policy and Leadership
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