Overview
- Synthesizes research on psychosocial skills, analyzing theory and areas of application from K-12
- Examines developmental trajectories and approaches to psychosocial skills assessment
- Explores key educational outcomes and interventions geared to enhance each psychosocial characteristic
- Describes psychosocial skills in clinical settings, large-scale international assessments, policy as well as curriculum development
Part of the book series: The Springer Series on Human Exceptionality (SSHE)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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General Background: Theory and Guiding Principles
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Psychosocial Skills: Key Constructs
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Psychosocial Skills: Applications
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Conclusions
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Keywords
About this book
Topics featured in this book include:
- Development of psychosocial skills in grades K-12.
- Assessment of psychosocial skills.
- Conscientiousness in education and its relation to meaningful educational outcomes.
- Creativity in schools, including theory, assessment, and interventions.
- Academic emotions and their regulation through emotional intelligence.
- Resilience and school-based programs aimed at enhancing it.
Psychosocial Skills and School Systems in the 21st Century is a must-have resource for researchers, graduate students, clinicians, mental health professionals, and policymakers in child and school psychology, educational policy and politics, public health, social work, developmental psychology, and educational psychology.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Franzis Preckel, Ph.D., is Professor for Giftedness Research and Education at the Department of Psychology of the University of Trier, Germany. Her main research interests are intelligence (assessment and structural analysis), giftedness (fostering options and program evaluation), cognitive motivation (development and predictive validity for academic achievement), self-concept (development and reference group effects), and the influence of chronotypes on student learning and achievement. Dr. Preckel has edited or coauthored 19 books and she published 46 articles in peer-refereed journals as well as 15 book chapters. She is coauthor of 5 intelligence tests and 2 self-report scales on academic anxiety and on cognitive motivation. She has presented her research in more than 80 talks and is on the editorial board of Diagnostica and Gifted and Talented International.Â
Richard D. Roberts, Ph.D., is Vice President and Chief Scientist, Center
for Innovative Assessments, Professional Examination Service, New York, New York. A former National Research Council Fellow who conducted research at Brooks Air Force Base (1996-1998), he has also been a Senior Lecturer at The University of Sydney (1998-2003), and a Managing Principal Research Scientist at the Educational Testing Service (2003-2014). His main area of specialization is measurement, with a special emphasis on developing and researching innovative new items types for the assessment of both cognitive and noncognitive factors, as well as constructs that have elements that straddle these two domains (e.g., emotional intelligence). Dr. Roberts has co-authored over a dozen books, and about 200 peer-review articles and book chapters on these topics in diverse sub-disciplines (including, education, psychology, business, medicine, health policy, and wind engineering), with nearly 400 presentations across the globe. Among Dr. Roberts’ professional honors are two ETS PresidentialAwards, two PROSE book awards, and various early (and then later) career awards. He is currently Secretary-Treasurer of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences and serves on the boards of various international journals and organizations.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Psychosocial Skills and School Systems in the 21st Century
Book Subtitle: Theory, Research, and Practice
Editors: Anastasiya A Lipnevich, Franzis Preckel, Richard D. Roberts
Series Title: The Springer Series on Human Exceptionality
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28606-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-28604-4Published: 08 April 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-68036-1Published: 15 September 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-28606-8Published: 02 April 2016
Series ISSN: 1572-5642
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 401
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Child and School Psychology, Educational Policy and Politics, Public Health, Social Work, Developmental Psychology, Educational Psychology
Industry Sectors: Biotechnology, Health & Hospitals