APS

30th APS Annual Convention

Personality in Action: Behavioral Skills Important for Education and Work Success

Saturday, May 26, 2018 · San Francisco, CA

Oral · Personality/Emotion

This symposium presents a personality-based framework as a comprehensive and developmentally-appropriate foundation for assessments, interventions, and research across education and work. The symposium highlights examples of scale development efforts designed to inform research and measurement questions, as well as analytic strategies that provide better modeling of personality and behavior data.

Chairs & Discussants

  • Alex CasillasChair
    ACT, Inc.
  • Alex CasillasChair
    University of Iowa

Presentations

  1. A Framework of Behavioral Skills with Applications for Assessment and InterventionAlex Casillas
  2. Development and Construct Validation of Scales to Measure Behavioral Skills Relevant to the Transition into CollegeLeonard Simms
  3. Development and Validation of Domain and Component Level Scales for the Behavioral Skills FrameworkSteven Manning
  4. Domain and Facet Growth Trajectories in Behavioral Skills Among High School StudentsMcAbee Samuel