Response Anchoring and Student Disengagement on Self-Report Measures of Social-emotional Learning

• In Event: Social Emotional Learning

Abstract

Response anchoring, the tendency for respondents to provide item responses equivalent (or in close proximity to) immediately preceding responses, often reflects disengaged responding. Using Grade 4-12 student responses to social-emotional learning measures, we examine student and item covariates that predict anchoring, and demonstrate score bias and survey design implications.

Authors

• Daniel Bolt, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, MADIS

• Yang Caroline Wang, Education Analytics