Simple questionnaires outperform behavioral tasks to measure socio-emotional skills in students.

ABSTRACT: Recent empirical research has shown that improving socio-emotional skills such as grit, conscientiousness and self-control leads to higher academic achievement and better life outcomes. However, both theoretical and empirical works have raised concerns about the reliability of the different methods used to measure socio-emotional skills. We compared the reliability and validity of the three leading measurements methods-a student-reported questionnaire, a teacher-reported questionnaire, and a behavioral task-in a sample of 3997 French students. Before analyzing the data, we polled 114 international researchers in cognitive development and education economics; most researchers in both fields predicted that the behavioral task would be the best method. We found instead that the teacher questi

SUBMITTER: Boon-Falleur M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8748826 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature