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

And there is evidence that noncognitive skills, like collaboration and openness to compromise, are benefiting women in today’s labor market.

From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2016

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