Borgonovi, F;
Ferrara, A;
Piacentini, M;
(2023)
From asking to observing. Behavioural measures of socio-emotional and motivational skills in large-scale assessments.
Social Science Research
, 112
, Article 102874. 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2023.102874.
(In press).
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Abstract
Socio-emotional and motivational skills are routinely measured using self-reports in large-scale educational assessments. Measures exploiting test-takers’ behaviour during the completion of questionnaires or cognitive tests are increasingly used as alternatives to self-reports in the economics of education literature. We compute behavioural measures of socio-emotional and motivational skills using data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). We find that these measures capture important aspects of students' academic profiles: some are importantly associated with contemporaneous performance and educational attainment and most measures have a high degree of stability over time. However, these measures are only limitedly correlated among themselves and have low correlations with self-report measures of the same constructs. This is likely a reflection of the fact that behavioural measures are representations of the test taker current ‘state’, rather than descriptions of the participant view of their own ‘trait’ like the self-report measures. Moreover, the low correlation across measures suggests that they capture different behavioural responses to the test-taking situation. These differences are still limitedly understood because the measures are constructed ex-post using collateral information collected during the administration of assessments rather than developed ex ante in line with theoretical models of human cognition and affect.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | From asking to observing. Behavioural measures of socio-emotional and motivational skills in large-scale assessments |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2023.102874 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2023.102874 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Non-cognitive skills, Large-scale assessments, Behavioral measures, Comparability, PISA |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10167346 |
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