Patrick Kyllonen, PhD - Senior Research Director, ETS

TITLE: Advances and Challenges in Assessing Social, Emotional, and Self-Management Skills (73 min.) LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 1. Identify influences that have generated interest in social-emotional skills. 2. Discuss different methods for measuring social-emotional skills and their advantages and disadvantages. 3. Explain the limitations of self-ratings, problems and benefits of others' ratings in the assessment social-emotional skills. 4. Describe different solutions for improving methods for measuring social-emotional skills. ABSTRACT: In this introductory-level presentation, Dr. Kyllonen will make the case for measuring character skills, then review limitations to current rating-scale assessment, particularly reference group effects, response style bias, and limitations in comparability across nations, schools, and demographic subgroups. Dr. Kyllonen will suggest a variety of solutions including forced-choice measurement, anchoring vignettes, situational judgment testing, and performance tasks, and further discuss measurement models for these assessments. He will conclude with a discussion of prospects and priorities for moving the science of character assessment forward. BIOGRAPHY: Patrick Kyllonen is Senior Research Director of the Center for Academic and Workforce Readiness and Success at Educational Testing Service (ETS). His work focuses on non-cognitive assessment for K-12 and higher education, workforce readiness assessment, and international large scale assessment. He is author of several books and National Academy of Sciences reports on these topics, is a fellow of APA and AERA, and was instrumental in the development of the Trait-Self Description (TSD) Personality Inventory. American Psychological Association (APA) Buros Center for Testing is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Buros Center for Testing maintains responsibility for this program and its content. National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) Buros Center for Testing is approved by the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Buros Center for Testing maintains responsibility for this program and its content. There is no known commercial support for this program. INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPLEMENTS PROVIDED WHEN PURCHASED FOR A COURSE: PowerPoint slides References/additional readings Comprehension quiz with answer key Discussion questions Timestamps for presentation content For a brief preview of this video, click link below.