Interpersonal and intrapersonal skill assessment alternatives: Self-reports, situational-judgment tests, and discrete-choice experiments

- Our literature search demonstrated the saturation of self-report measures across multiple fields and constructs.
- We generated a 10-criteria evaluative framework to evaluate measures of interpersonal and intrapersonal skills.
- We detailed opportunities, challenges, and trade-offs presented found for each of the three approaches.
- We provided examples of technical and conceptual recommendations for future development of DCEs in practice.
- We found that SJTs and DCEs showed promise in mitigating some concerns of bias and validity present in self-report.

Responding to a groundswell of researcher and practitioner interest in developing students' interpersonal and intrapersonal skills, we evaluated three measurement approaches for creativity and global citizenship. We designed a 10-criteria evaluative framework from seminal and cutting-edge research to compare extant self-reports and situational-judgment tests (SJTs) from each construct and to design two discrete-choice experiments (DCEs). Our evaluation detailed opportunities, challenges, and tradeoffs presented by each approach's design considerations, possibilities for bias, and validity-related issues. We found that researchers rely heavily upon self-report instruments to measure constructs, such as creative thinking and global citizenship. We found evidence that the self-report instruments evaluated were susceptible to some biases more than others. We found that SJTs and DCEs may mitigate some concerns of bias and validity present in self-report when measuring interpersonal and intrapersonal skills. We make recommendations for future development of these formats.