Assessing resilience at University

Abstract

Promoting quality results also requires the ability to measure outcomes and to identify what context variables can affect the student's success. The aim of this work is to analyze the distances in terms of the results obtained to a test on generalist skills among students with different family background (advantaged vs disadvantaged) and with brilliant performance, verifying whether these differences are significant. The analysis suggest that for resilient, the social background does not predict the student's performance, thus we suppose that the skills achieved during the University studies could contribute to the reduction of the distance among students with different social background.

Competencies and higher education: evidences and returns. The TECO project

“…10 This hypothesis would diverge from earlier works concerning the TECO administration of the CLA+ test (Ciolfi & Sabella, 2017).…”

“…The CLA+ test, produced by the Council for Aid to Education (CAE), is meant to measure the students' performance on analysis and problem solving, scientific and quantitative reasoning, critical reading and evaluation, and critiquing an argument, in addition to writing mechanics and effectiveness. It was administered twice: during 2013 in collaboration with 12 universities and during 2015 in collaboration with 24 universities (seeCiolfi et al 2016;Ciolfi & Sabella, 2017).…”