Investigating Efficacy, Moderators, and Implementation of a Game-Based Social-Emotional Learning Platform

• In Event: Considering Diverse Approaches to Social and Emotional Learning Programming

Abstract

This study focuses on a game-based online social skills development program that is designed to address five social-emotional competencies, including self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision making. The presentation (1) discusses PROGRAM’s (name blinded) implementation at school and in distance-learning environments at 3rd grade and how the fidelity of implementation may have influenced student learning; (2) assesses the educational efficacy of PROGRAM on students’ social-emotional competency; and (3) explores the moderation effects of prior social emotional skills and student background variables (e.g., ethnicity). Additionally, the presentation examines the implications of using virtual learning platform for social-emotional skills development, along with some case analyses with diverse students.

Authors

• Linlin Li, WestEd
  Presenting Author

• Kylie Flynn, WestEd
  Non-Presenting Author

• Melissa E. Derosier
  Non-Presenting Author

• Chun-Wei Kevin Huang, WestEd
  Non-Presenting Author

• Kim Luttgen, WestEd
  Non-Presenting Author