Assessment of collaborative problem solving skills

Collaborative problem solving (CPS) has been deemed a competency critical for success in today's world given that many of the challenges of today require individuals to come together to find solutions to novel problems. This has made developing and implementing ways to assess CPS an important endeavor. In the current article, we describe principles and applications for how to carry out various aspects of CPS assessment, including operationalizing the construct, identifying evidence of CPS skills from log data in digital environments, and aggregating evidence about individuals' behaviors to make inferences about CPS proficiency.