Psychological assessment of effectiveness of teacher training for developing creative, intercultural, and plurilingual competencies

New psychological research. 2026. No. 1. P. 235–259.

Yudina T., Kashirskaya E., Kharkhurin A. V.

The article introduces a psychological assessment program that evaluates the effectiveness of teacher training for developing school students’ creative, intercultural, and plurilingual competencies. To establish a framework for the discussion, we refer to the PICK approach and present its theoretical construct and educational objectives. The proposed assessment program uses a pre-test/post-test experimental design that includes quantitative and qualitative instruments for measuring the competencies of both teachers and school students. The PICK training contributes to developing teachers’ creative self and selfefficacy, preventing burnout, and supporting subjective well-being. The assessment battery for school students includes the Evaluation of Potential Creativity and the Short Scale of Creative Self to assess creative competence; the Multicultural Personality Questionnaire and to assess intercultural competence; the Language and Social Background Questionnaire, the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale and the Code-switching test to assess plurilingual competence; and Academic Motivation Scale, Multidimensional School Engagement Scale, Multidimensional Students’ Life Satisfaction Scale to assess indicators of systemic adaptation at school. The proposed assessment system aims to evaluate the effectiveness of three training modules for teachers and test the hypothesis about the impact of the development of three competencies on students’ systemic adaptation, which contributes to the scientific understanding of personality development

Keywords: креативность, creativity, межкультурная компетенция, полилингвизм, поликультурность, psychological assessment, intercultural competence, психологическая оценка, plurilingualism, системная адаптация, pluriculturalism, systemic adaptation