What are Intrapersonal Competencies?
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS, 2017) produced a comprehensive publication that identified eight specific intra-personal competencies which appear related to persistence and success in undergraduate education: conscientiousness, sense of belonging, academic self-efficacy, growth mindset, utility goals and values, intrinsic goals and values, prosocial or transcendent goals.
Research Posters & Presentations
Goals
Leveraging a large body of research previously published by the National Academies of Sciences (2017; 2018) and the Institute of Educational Sciences (2016), we aim to do the following:
Test multiple methods of how malleable intrapersonal competencies can be cultivated and for whom and under what types of conditions and contexts.
Research the relationship of these intrapersonal competencies with desired institutional performance metrics such as term-to-term persistence, time-to-degree, and closing of equity gaps while accounting for variations in culture and context.
Research the relationship of these intrapersonal competencies with desired career readiness and graduate school readiness skills while accounting for variations in culture and context.
Integrate first-person narrative via natural language processing analytics into learning analytics in order to better understand what may be missing from existing intrapersonal competency quantitative measures and better inform context and culture.
Disseminate research findings, successful intrapersonal competency cultivation strategies (ICCS) as well as corresponding assessment tools and analysis methodology, and inform relevant professional development for faculty and staff involved in cultivating malleable intrapersonal competencies to close equity gaps and improve career readiness.