Framework and Assessment Considerations for Social and Emotional Learning

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The field of SEL is burgeoning, and with that has come an excessive number of frameworks and assessments. This goal of this session is to highlight key considerations for practitioners and researchers when sifting through the myriad of options for implementation. The first talk discusses efforts to create a coherent, scientifically grounded taxonomy of skills designed to link terms across various frameworks. In the second talk, the authors provide an overview of ten criteria for selecting a framework. The next centers on empirical support for one specific framework that can be used to organize social and emotional skills, and the final talk similarly provides empirical support for an integrative model of skills and an assessment based on this model.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Social and Emotional Learning

Chair

• Kate Walton, ACT, Inc.

Papers

• Frameworks for Social and Emotional Learning From Across the Globe: Comparing, Contrasting, and Localizing - Stephanie Margaret Jones, Harvard University; Bryan Nelson; Rebecca Bailey, Harvard University

• Social and Emotional Learning Frameworks: How to Choose? - Teresa Borowski, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Multimethod Support for Using the Big Five Framework to Organize Social and Emotional Skills - Kate Walton, ACT, Inc.; Jeremy Burrus, ACT, Inc.; Dana Murano, ACT, Inc.; Alex Casillas, ACT, Inc.

• Assessing Social-Emotional Skills Using SENNA: Development, Psychometrics, and Validity - Ricardo Primi, Universidade São Francisco; Daniel Santos, Universidade de São Paulo; Oliver P John, University of California - Berkeley; Filip De Fruyt, Ghent University

Discussant

• Jeremy Burrus, ACT, Inc.