A substantial body of ETS research supports the validity, reliability and fairness of the PSQ tool, which has been verified in close collaboration with higher education institutions and employers.
Research Backing the PSQ Tool
ETS’s research in the field
Our Education and Career Development team builds bridges between education and workforce research to inform best practices. Inter- and intrapersonal skills — behavioral, noncognitive, social-emotional and soft skills — allow people to navigate their environment, interact productively with others, perform effectively and achieve their goals. Our work in this area assures PSQ users of reliable, research-backed results.
Key ETS research
Editorial: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Policy in Fostering Social and Emotional Skills
Provides an overview and references articles suggesting paths to mitigate gaps between research and policy.
Innovative Assessment of Collaboration
Experts from various fields discuss their perspectives on teamwork and collaborative problem-solving.
Designing Tests to Measure Personal Attributes and Noncognitive Skills
Reviews why inter- and intrapersonal skills are important for both education and the workplace, and other relevant topics.
Examining the WorkFORCE® Assessment for Job Fit and Core Capabilities of FACETS®
Introduces the WorkFORCE® Assessment for Job Fit, an assessment of inter- and intrapersonal skills using the FACETS® engine core capability.
Soft Skills for the Workplace
Presents an overview of research conducted on the role of cognitive and noncognitive skills in predicting academic and workforce outcomes.
Emotional Intelligence Relates to Well-Being: Evidence from the Situational Judgment Test of Emotional Management
Describes a study examining whether people with high emotional intelligence have greater well-being than people with less.
Noncognitive Skills in Education: Emerging Research and Applications in a Variety of International Contexts
Introduces a special issue of ScienceDirect on the topic of noncognitive factors influencing academic outcomes.
The Role of Noncognitive Constructs and Other Background Variables in Graduate Education
This ETS research report reviews literature on noncognitive and other background predictors as they pertain to graduate education.
New Perspectives on Faking in Personality Assessment
Presents different viewpoints on response distortion in assessment.
The Case for Noncognitive Assessments
Examines noncognitive assessments, including their uses, measurement issues and ETS's work in this arena.
