Part 1: General Background: Theory and Guiding Principles.- Chapter 1. Psychosocial Skills: Psychosocial Skills: Essential Components of Development and Achievement in K-12.- Chapter 2. Test Standards and Psychometric Modeling.- Chapter 3. Aligning Mission and Measurement.- Chapter 4. Personality Development During the School-Aged Years: Implications for Theory, Research, and Practice.- Part 2: Psychosocial Skills: Key Constructs.- Chapter 5. The Need for Cognition: Key Concepts, Assessment, and Role in Educational Outcomes.- Chapter 6. Understanding Creativity in the Schools.- Chapter 7. Conscientiousness in Education: Its Conceptualization, Assessment, and Utility.- Chapter 8. Self-Concept: Determinants and Consequences of Academic Self-Concept in School Concepts.- Chapter 9. Applying Social Cognitive Theory in the Development of Self-Regulated Competencies Throughout K-12 Grades.- Chapter 10. Student Motivation: Current Theories, Constructs, and Interventions within an Expectancy-Value Framework.- Chapter 11. Academic Emotions and Their Regulations via Emotional Intelligence.- Part 3: Psychosocial Skills: Applications.- Chapter 12. Fostering Psychosocial Skills: School-Based Promotion of Resiliency in Children and Adolescents.- Chapter 13. Teaching Emotional Intelligence in Schools: An Evidence-Based Approach.- Chapter 14. Psyhosocial Skills in Large-Scale Assessments: Trends, Challenges, and Policy Implications.- Part 4: Conclusions.- Chapter 15. Psychosocial Constructs: Knowns, Unknowns, and Where do we go From Here?.
Anastasiya Lipnevich, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of
Educational Psychology at Queens College and the Graduate Center of
the City University of New York. Her research interests include
instructional feedback, attitudes toward mathematics, alternative
approaches to non-cognitive assessment, academic emotions, and the
role of psychosocial characteristics in individuals’ academic and
life achievement. Dr. Lipnevich has over 40 publications in
refereed journals and edited volumes, has delivered more than 60
conference presentations and invited addresses, has chaired 10
symposia, serves on several editorial boards, and has co-edited
several special issues in flagship journals. Dr. Lipnevich’s
professional honors include, among others, Excellence in
Dissertation Award from Rutgers University, the New Investigator
Award 2010 from Division 3 (Experimental Psychology) of the
American Psychological Association, and Postdoctoral Fellowship
from Educational Testing Service.Franzis Preckel, Ph.D., is
Professor for Giftedness Research and Education at the Department
of Psychology of the University of Trier, Germany. Her main
research interests are intelligence (assessment and structural
analysis), giftedness (fostering options and program evaluation),
cognitive motivation (development and predictive validity for
academic achievement), self-concept (development and reference
group effects), and the influence of chronotypes on student
learning and achievement. Dr. Preckel has edited or coauthored 19
books and she published 46 articles in peer-refereed journals as
well as 15 book chapters. She is coauthor of 5 intelligence tests
and 2 self-report scales on academic anxiety and on cognitive
motivation. She has presented her research in more than 80 talks
and is on the editorial board of Diagnostica and Gifted and
Talented International.
Richard D. Roberts, Ph.D., is Vice President and Chief
Scientist, Centerfor Innovative Assessments, Professional
Examination Service, New York, New York. A former National Research
Council Fellow who conducted research at Brooks Air Force Base
(1996-1998), he has also been a Senior Lecturer at The University
of Sydney (1998-2003), and a Managing Principal Research Scientist
at the Educational Testing Service (2003-2014). His main area of
specialization is measurement, with a special emphasis on
developing and researching innovative new items types for the
assessment of both cognitive and noncognitive factors, as well as
constructs that have elements that straddle these two domains
(e.g., emotional intelligence). Dr. Roberts has co-authored over a
dozen books, and about 200 peer-review articles and book chapters
on these topics in diverse sub-disciplines (including, education,
psychology, business, medicine, health policy, and wind
engineering), with nearly 400 presentations across the globe. Among
Dr. Roberts’ professional honors are two ETS PresidentialAwards,
two PROSE book awards, and various early (and then later) career
awards. He is currently Secretary-Treasurer of the International
Society for the Study of Individual Differences and serves on the
boards of various international journals and organizations.
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