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ERIC Number: ED610950
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2017
Pages: 9
Abstractor: ERIC
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A Web-Based System for Measuring Social Emotional Skills in Kindergarten to Third Grade
McKown, Clark; Russo-Ponsaran, Nicole
Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness
Despite increasing consensus that social-emotional learning (SEL) is an important contributor to success in school and life, few tools are available for educators to assess SEL skill and to use assessment results to inform educational practice. In particular, there are no scalable, feasible, usable, and scientifically sound assessment systems that measure social-emotional comprehension, which includes mental processes enlisted to encode, interpret and reason about social and emotional information. Social-emotional comprehension includes the abilities to infer others emotions from nonverbal cues, to take others' perspectives, to solve social problems, and to enlist cognitive strategies involved in self-control. Well developed social-emotional comprehension is associated with success in school and life (McKown, Allen, Russo-Ponsaran, & Johnson, 2013; McKown, Russo-Ponsaran, Johnson, Russo, & Allen, 2015; McKown, RussoPonsaran, Allen, Johnson, & Warren-Khot, 2015). To address this need, the authors developed SELweb, a web-based assessment system for students in Kindergarten through third grade that is designed to assess four dimensions of social-emotional comprehension (Lipton and Nowicki, 2009), including emotion recognition or "Social Awareness" (Nowicki & Duke, 1994), social perspective-taking or "Social Meaning" (Happé, 1994; Wellman & Liu, 2004). Social problem-solving or "Social Reasoning" (Bauminger, Edelsztein, & Morash, 2005; Crick & Dodge, 1994), and "Self-Control," or mental processes involved in delaying gratification and controlling emotions to achieve a goal (Duckworth, 2011). This paper presents a summary of evidence from three studies of the psychometric properties of SELweb. In addition, they provide an interactive electronic demonstration of SELweb describing features that facilitate its broad use in education settings. [SREE documents are structured abstracts of SREE conference symposium, panel, and paper or poster submissions.]
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Publication Type: Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Kindergarten; Primary Education; Grade 1; Grade 2; Grade 3
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Language: English
Sponsor: Institute of Education Sciences (ED)
Authoring Institution: Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE)
IES Funded: Yes
Grant or Contract Numbers: R305A110143
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