The myth of achievement tests : the GED and the role of character in American life

By James J. Heckman, J. Humphries, Tim Kautz. 2013

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Subfields: Education, Information Systems, Social Psychology

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Who Benefits from Universal Child Care? Estimating Marginal Returns to Early Child Care Attendance (2018, methodology): “Municipality characteristics include the number of inhabitants, median wage, and the share of individuals with medium and tertiary education in the workforce, as well as the share of immigrants and women in the workforce obtained either from the statistical office of Lower Saxony or computed from…”
Hard evidence on soft skills (2012, background): “Nevertheless, the program improved outcomes for both boys and girls, resulting in a statistically significant rate of return of around 6-10% per annum for both boys and girls (see Heckman et al., 2010a,b). These returns are above the post-World War II, pre-2008 meltdown in stock market returns to eq”
Fostering and Measuring Skills: Interventions that Improve Character and Cognition (2013, unknown): “A version of this paper appears in Heckman, Humphries, and Kautz (2014b): see Heckman and Kautz (2014b).”
Why High School Grades Are Better Predictors of On-Time College Graduation Than Are Admissions Test Scores: The Roles of Self-Regulation and Cognitive Ability (2019, unknown): “More generally, an array of personal qualities—variously referred to as character skills (Heckman & Kautz, 2013), social-emotional competencies (Durlak, Weissberg, Dymnicki, Taylor, & Schellinger, 2011), personality traits (Poropat, 2009; Roberts, Kuncel, Shiner, Caspi, & Goldberg, 2007), or…”
Measurement Matters: Assessing Personal Qualities Other Than Cognitive Ability for Educational Purposes (2015, background): “In recent years, scholars, practitioners, and the lay public have grown increasingly interested in measuring and changing attributes other than cognitive ability (Heckman & Kautz, 2014a; Levin, 2013; Naemi, Burrus, Kyllonen, & Roberts, 2012; Stecher & Hamilton, 2014; Tough, 2013; Willingham, 1985).”
Fostering and Measuring Skills: Improving Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills to Promote Lifetime Success (2014, background): “…Foster Figure 14: Histograms of Indices of Noncognitive Skills and CAT Scores ( Rank in Terms of Position in the National Distribution) 0 .0 2 .0 4 .0 6 .0 8 d en si ty 0 20 40 60 80 100 percentile 0 .0 2 .0 4 .0 6 .0 8 d en si ty 0 20 40 60 80 100 percentile Source: Heckman et al. (2013).”