Using Latent Semantic Analysis to Assess Social Competence

Assessing social competence is a time consuming and complex endeavor, which has prompted several institutions to implement automated assessment systems. Although other attempts have been made, the majority of automated assessments are still based on multiple-choice formats. Within this contribution, the authors therefore present a new method of how to assess social competence using LSA. The contribution first reports on the research design, then presents the findings which are subsequently discussed in brief.