Psychometric Evaluation of Non Cognitive Skills for Undergraduate Students of Professional Courses

Abstract

Student success depends on number of cognitive factors but the researches have proved that academics play a little role in student success. In addition to these non cognitive factors are playing the major contribution in making of a successful person in all aspects. In order to assess the individuals on various non cognitive factors plenty of researches have been conducted where one or other skills or combination of some skills have been assessed but a comprehensive measure of assessing non cognitive skills was not developed. So, this research was conducted with an objective to construct and standardize a comprehensive measure for assessing non cognitive skills of UG students of different disciplines and battery of different tests based on the UNESCO’s concept.