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Mission Skills
AssessmentAssessing Character Traits in Middle School
Students
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Mission Skills Assessment
A Tool To Alter The Way Schools
Think About Education MSA measures character strengths that haveproven essential for success in school and in life.The assessment gives each school a more
scientic way to measure its curriculums successat meeting the goals outlined in its mission.
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(hat is the Mission Skills
Assessment:
A longitudinal assessment measuring and*enchmarking student achie9ement and impro9ement
in core mission skills. Teamwork
Creativity
Ethics
Resilience
Curiosity
Time Management
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The Assessment
(e*#*ased # approximatel, minutes total.
Assess th8 "th8 and &thgraders once per ,ear.
Three components) student sel+#assessment8
situational ;udgment4per+ormance#*ased
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Noncogniti9e Skills
7esearch
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(hat are Noncogniti9e skills:
Not traditionall, =tested> *, standardi?edassessments
Not new *ut newl, important@ ='!stcentur,skills>
Essential capacities necessar, +or success inschool and in li+e
+ten taught implicitl,8 *ut can *e taughtexplicitl,
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Academic Success
Noncogniti9e skills correlate
positi9el, with achie9ement on NAE2and 2ISA.
Noncogniti9e +actors predict college
grades as strongl, as cogniti9e9aria*les do.
ETS8 -'&0@ 2oropat8 -'50
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Bi+e Tra;ector,
Earl, childhood inter9entions do notraise I8 *ut impro9e noncogniti9eskills which aect education8emplo,ment8 earnings8 and crime.
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Bi+e Satis+action
Noncogniti9e 9aria*lesFha9e *eendemonstrated to predict happiness8health marital satis+action and peerrelationships.
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Demographics
The *eneJts o+ higher noncogniti9eskills are demonstra*le across I8 socio#economic class8 gender8 and race.
Tough8 2aul. $ow %hildren Succeed& rit' %uriosity and the$idden (ower of %haracter.-'!'0
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Ethics!K
Bo9e o+Bearning"%K
7esilience"K
Creati9it,"K
Teamwork$K
Analysis ofmissionstatements of!inde"endentschools
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#ntellectual #nter"ersonal #ntra"ersonal
3nowledge andmaster, o+ general
principles
Appreciation +ordi9ersit,
Social responsi*ilit,and citi?enship
Continuous learning8
intellectual interestand curiosit,
Beadership 2h,sical and
ps,chological health
Artistic and culturalappreciation
Interpersonal skills Career orientation
Adapta*ilit, and li+eskills
2erse9erance
Ethics and integrit,
Analysis of $niversity Mission Statements%&swald et' al'( )!!*+
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The Con+erence Hoard8 Corporate Loices +or (orking amilies8 2artnership +or '!stCentur,(orking Skills8 and the Societ, +or uman 7esource Management.
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The Character Imperati9e
!0 7esearch shows that these skills leadto positi9e educational and li+e outcomes@
'0 Colleges8 uni9ersities8 and emplo,ersare seeking these skills in students andworkers@ and
%0 (e must demonstrate the 9alue weadd.
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Constructs in MSA
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Teamwork
Models o+ teamworkinclude
Cooperation
Inuence
Conict resolution
Ouiding others
In high school students8 teacher reports o+ teamwork were correlated withgrades across se9eral su*;ects -(ang8 MacCann8 Phuang8 Biu8 G 7o*erts8 '50
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Creati9it, predicts graduate school outcomes *e,ond O7E9er*al and mathematics scores -rederickson G (ard8 !5"6@Hennett G 7ock8 !556@ Hennett G 7ock8 !55&0
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riginalit,8progressi9eness8 orimagination
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Ethics
DeJned in our
stud, as cheatingand concern +orothers
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7esilience
A le9el o+ adapta*ilit, that allows indi9iduals tosur9i9e and thri9e in ad9erse conditions
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worth,8 and eecti9e a person +eels.
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Item T,pes
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Sel+#7eport
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Situational udgment Test
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Hiographical Data
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Creati9it, 2er+ormance Test
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Teacher 7atings
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Next Steps
Continual reJnement o+ MSA assessment
Assessing underser9ed populations with MSA 1 ori?onsStudent Enrichment 2rograms -NCCS8 7umson CDS0
Expanding to all INDEX schools 1 )* schools' +,'---students fall -+/
Oathering interest +rom additional schools8 districts8organi?ations
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Instruction
$ow can we teachthese s0ills 1etter and howwill we 0now we are succeeding2
Deli*erate8 explicit and implicit instruction andinter9entions
Orade#le9el goals
Articulated8 spiraled8 integrated noncogniti9e
curriculum Qpdated and anal,?ed curriculum maps
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Shared 9ision8 9oca*ular,8 and resources
2articipation in regional and nationalteacher networks8 character summits
Shape report cards and parent con+erences
ngoing education1school leaders8 +acult,8students8 parents
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