Strengthening School Connectedness to Increase Student Success
Category: Student Well-Being and Mental Health
The Mission Skills Assessment (MSA) is an online assessment that targets 6 noncognitive constructs: creativity, curiosity, ethics, resilience, teamwork, and time management. Each construct is measured by means of a student self-report scale, a student alternative scale (e.g., situational judgment test), and a teacher report scale. Use of the MSA provides schools with the opportunity to examine and monitor development of noncognitive skills in their students from Grade 6 to Grade 8. Three methods of measurement were incorporated into the MSA for each construct: traditional Likert self-report items, Likert teacher-report items, and an alternate type of assessment (e.g., situational judgments).
Content
Grades
6th Grade,
7th Grade,
8th Grade
Respondent
Student
Teacher
Administration Information
Length
45-60 minutes
Administration
Computer
Access and Use
Contact
Lisa Pullman
INDEX
lisapullan@indexgroups.org
Open Access
No
Use in Research
Flake, J. K., & Petway, K. T. (2019). Methodologies for investigating and interpreting student–teacher rating incongruence in noncognitive assessment. Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 38(1), 63-77. https://doi.org/10.1111/emip.12201
Niepel, C., Burrus, J., Greiff, S., Lipnevich, A. A., Brenneman, M. W., & Roberts, R. D. (2018). Students' beliefs and attitudes toward mathematics across time: A longitudinal examination of the theory of planned behavior. Learning and Individual Differences, 63, 24-33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2018.02.010
Psychometrics
Psychometric References
Petway, K. T., Rikoon, S. H., Brenneman, M. W., Burrus, J., & Roberts, R. D. (2016). Development of the Mission Skills Assessment and evidence of its reliability and internal structure. ETS Research Report Series. https://doi.org/10.1002/ets2.12107
Item Type
Open response
Likert
