Noncognitive Skills in the Classroom: New Perspectives on Educational Research (RTI Press Books)

This book provides an overview of recent research on the relationship between noncognitive attributes (motivation, self efficacy, resilience) and academic outcomes (such as grades or test scores). It focuses primarily on how these sets of attributes are measured and how they relate to important academic outcomes. Noncognitive attributes are those academically and occupationally relevant skills and traits that are not “cognitive”—that is, not specifically intellectual or analytical in nature. This book examines seven attributes in depth and critiques the measurement approaches used by researchers and discusses how they can be improved.