noncognitive
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The second most important predictor was noncognitive skills—traits like resilience, self-esteem and conscientiousness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 19, 2025
A machine-learning model would be fed historical admissions data, including candidates’ family background and academic achievement, and noncognitive skills such as grit and resilience, along with outcomes of past admission decisions.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 30, 2022
As the accompanying chart demonstrates, upper-income kids perform well on tests of noncognitive skills, but there are substantial numbers of low-income children who do well also.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2017
So the idea of endowing my children with names that would force them to bite their tongues and thereby raise their noncognitive IQs was appealing to me.
From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2014
Without anyone realizing it, the coding test was measuring a critical noncognitive skill that mattered a lot in the grown-up world.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2012
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