19 The NACE Research Department holds the opinion that the competencies will always be highly correlated due to their close relationship in real life. Indeed, to respond appropriately in a work setting, one will likely have to use multiple competencies at one time. For example, if an employee needs to navigate an uncomfortable social situation with a team member, the employee may have to use their professionalism, communication, critical thinking, and teamwork competencies all at the same time. Undeniably, these competencies are intertwined, which is why they are all important to the underlying construct of career readiness. Please see Appendix D for the specific methodology used in conducting the factor analysis along with the results including factor loadings, inter-factor correlations, fit statistics, and residual correlations. Content validity survey The task force agreed that one more round of revisions was needed to ensure empirically validated behaviors were included for each competency. It was also recognized that NACE, as an authoritative organization of professional practitioners, may include behaviors that achieved a substantial level of agreement according to the experts on the task force. As such, the NACE Research Department created a content validity survey to secure task force levels of agreement and feedback on the proposed titles, definitions, and behaviors. The results were shared with the task force for final review. A total of 22 task force members participated, each a content expert in their own right. The sample was 59% female and 73% white. The survey queried task force members on their levels of agreement with the proposed titles, definitions, and behaviors. Please see Appendix E for the full slate of content validity results. Given the sample size of the content validity survey and that the behaviors were being offered to the public as sample behaviors, the task force adopted a low threshold of 50% agreement on whether to include or reject the behavior from the final list. Additionally, the task force decided to keep all the items in the SkillSurvey instrument, except for two that were deemed “hard” skills. With the understanding that the list of behaviors would be refined in the coming years, the task force chose to begin with the widest set of behaviors possible to offer the field. Figures in Appendix E provide these results. The final set of revised titles, definitions, and sample behaviors can be read in Appendix A. In summary, the third task force used several sources of data from various constituencies, including: students, supervisors, public comments, empirical research, as well as NACE research, and last, the judgment and experience of the expert practitioners on the task force. The task force:
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