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.