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It Is Possible to Find Assessments of Many Hard-to-Measure Competencies, but There Will Be Challenges in Gathering Relevant Information on Quality and Use

• A large number of relevant assessments could be identified and cataloged, but some information about the assessments was hard to gather.
• There are logical steps to follow to collect assessments and relevant information and prepare them for the repository, starting with clearly identifying the constructs of interest, including developing search criteria and conducting searches, and concluding with collecting and organizing the information about each identified measure.

To Be Effective, an Online Repository Should Include Five Key Functions: Search, Display, Evaluate, Use, and Connect

• Interviews with potential repository users confirmed the potential value of such a repository and highlighted the importance of these five functions to make the repository usable.
• A repository can serve as an important first step in helping users find measures and evaluate their suitability for decisionmaking.

A Number of Actions Will Need to Occur to Develop an Actual Repository

• This study might be considered a pilot test for building a repository.
• The steps needed to develop a repository include defining the goals and purposes of the repository, searching for measures of constructs, and organizing the information and materials collected.