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Using Non-Cognitive Assessments to Help Underserved Students Transition to College

In May 2010, during the second annual Early College High School Week, JFF hosted a webinar to explore the use of assessments of non-cognitive abilities to enhance college persistence for students in danger of dropping out. Non-cognitive abilities are certain behaviors and attitudes—such as educational commitment and resiliency—that are distinct from the traditional verbal and quantitative areas that ability tests or achievement tests are designed to measure.