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The Role of Emotional Intelligence in Education

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Assessing Emotional Intelligence

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It is more crucial today than ever before that students are academically prepared to compete for knowledge and technology-based jobs. For students who are not adequately prepared, the economic and social costs can be extremely high. Early withdrawal from secondary school, for example, has been linked with higher levels of unemployment, lower earnings, and increased health problems (Jimerson, Egeland, Sroufe, & Carlson, 2000; Reyes, Gillock, Kobus, & Sanchez, 2000; Rumsberger, 1995). Historically, much of the work on predicting academic success, from elementary school to college, has focused on the impact of various cognitive abilities, socio-demographic factors and economic variables (Parker, Summerfeldt, Hogan, & Majeski, 2004). The fact that much of the variance in academic success remains unaccounted for by these variables has encouraged researchers to investigate additional predictors, including personality and conative factors. In recent years there has been increased attention to the role emotional and social competency has in academic success.

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  1. Department of Psychology, Trent University, Peterborough, ON K9J 7B8, Canada

    James D. A. Parker & Laura M. Wood

  2. Division of Applied Psychology, Faculty of Education, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N.W, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada

    Donald H. Saklofske

  3. Division of Internal Medicine, Center for Research on Health Care, University of Pittsburgh, 1600 West Bank Drive, Suite 200, Pittsburgh, PA 15213

    Terri Collin

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    Parker, J.D.A., Saklofske, D.H., Wood, L.M., Collin, T. (2009). The Role of Emotional Intelligence in Education. In: Parker, J., Saklofske, D., Stough, C. (eds) Assessing Emotional Intelligence. The Springer Series on Human Exceptionality. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-88370-0_13

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