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Chapter 11 - Technology and Measurement Challenges in Education and the Labor Market in South America

from Part III - Regional Focus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 November 2023

By
Filip De Fruyt ,
Toon Devloo ,
Ana Carolina Zuanazzi ,
Thais Brandão ,
Ricardo Primi ,
Fabiano Koich Miguel  and
Juliana Seidl
Edited by
Louis Tay ,
Sang Eun Woo  and
Tara Behrend
Louis Tay
Affiliation:
Purdue University, Indiana
Sang Eun Woo
Affiliation:
Purdue University, Indiana
Tara Behrend
Affiliation:
Purdue University, Indiana
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Summary

This chapter reviews the potential of technological innovations to advance assessment of psychological variables in education and the labor market in South America. We discuss in more detail SENNA kids, an electronic assessment tool developed in Brazil, to facilitate the formative assessment of social-emotional skills in young children. For the labour market, we describe an employee-experience tool developed by BONDI-X, a South American start-up, to track employees’ experience and foster communication between employees and organizations. We discuss how features of these two systems and their technologies can be integrated and contribute to a technology-supported self-directed experience system putting individuals in the driver seat of their personal development across their educational and employment careers.

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assessmentmeasurementtechnologyeducationsocial-emotional skillshuman resourcesemployee experience
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Technology and Measurement around the Globe , pp. 326 - 348
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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