Social-Emotional Learning: Understanding Effectiveness and Improving Assessment
Social-emotional skills have been shown to impact various outcomes, from academic success to overall well-being. Assessing and validating SEL approaches is crucial for enhancing educational programs. Developments in assessment methods and reporting strategies are essential to ensure the quality and interpretability of results. Adequate resourcing and expertise are key for advancing SEL assessment initiatives. The implementation process involves connecting initiatives, securing funding, and refining assessment tools for effective reporting.
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All children should have access to social-emotional learning opportunities ASSESSMENT Are SEL approaches /programming effective?
What do we know? Meta-analyses have shown that social-emotional skills predict short- term academic outcomes, longer term educational, labour force, civic, and health and wellbeing outcomes Some methods are better than others with respect to prediction Interviews predict better than ratings data Teacher ratings are better predictors than student self-report However, based on e.g. US (CA) and Chile assessments, rating scales measures provide some paradoxical results which challenge usefulness of such measures can be validated through e.g. LLECE
Call to action: approaches to assessment and reporting Development and validation of social-emotional learning progressions Approaches Performance-based assessment focus on implementation issues (logistics/classroom m ment /learning environment) as well as validity and reliability of measures Issues associated with development and use of rating scales how can we improve the quality and interpretability of these? Improve communicating of results through appropriate reporting strategies
Resourcing Funding Foundations that might link current SEL assessment development initiatives (F) Organisations engaged in program evaluation Aid and development funding Industry leadership and staff development initiatives HEI industry linkages (PPP) Venture capitalism (VC) Expertise required in Assessment Curriculum Pedagogy
Implementation process Goal Connecting initiatives x R&D Funding examples Development of learning progressions Performance-based assessment Rating scales Reporting strategies x e.g., VC x x x x x x Connecting initiatives: content, dissemination, stakeholders Reporting strategies: forms of assessment reporting; access to those who need the resources Next steps: liaise with affiliated groups
Tweetmeet Cognitive skills get you hired and social skills get you fired let s adapt we hire people for their skills, but we fire them for something else (blog) we hired them for their abilities and fired them for their personality (Hogan) hard skills get you hired, poor soft skills could get you fired (Irish Times) skills get you hired, behavior gets you fired (PBS) Getting ahead and getting along do I need both? Assess me! Help me! Tell me! Assessment is my right help me know how I m going I have a right to know how I am learning I m a thinking sentient being how am I going? Assessment can tell me!
