{"id":67531,"date":"2020-11-19T14:56:14","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T14:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/casel.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/CASEL-Award-Blog-2020-Clark-McKown.pdf"},"modified":"2021-09-24T15:00:51","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T15:00:51","slug":"casel-award-blog-2020-clark-mckown","status":"inherit","type":"attachment","link":"https:\/\/casel.org\/casel-award-blog-2020-clark-mckown\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Social and Emotional Learning Grounded in Evidence"},"author":26603,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"class_list":["post-67531","attachment","type-attachment","status-inherit","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"description":{"rendered":"

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I got into the business of developing social and emotional assessments to build a better mousetrap. Self-report surveys and teacher rating scales serve the field well, but if we want to treat SEL with the same seriousness we treat reading and math, we must assess it with the same rigor. And so my colleagues and I set about to create novel methods of assessing SEL. Along the way, we learned that those methods work well, that educators like the data, and that our assessments fill an important gap.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve learned a lot from conversations with both colleagues in academia and practitioners. Some of my academic colleagues want to focus on assessing adult practices; they are concerned that assessing students can have negative consequences. But without high-quality data on student competence, educators are missing critical information to ensure that instruction will be effective\u2014creating a risk potentially greater than the imagined harms of assessment itself.<\/p>\n

Those in the trenches\u2014school leaders and teachers\u2014recognize the potential value of student competence assessment data. In my experience, practicing educators use assessment data in ways that maximize instructional benefit and minimize risk.<\/p>\n

These conversations have convinced me that any district implementing SEL would do well to assess student perceptions of the climate and program implementation alongside assessing student competence. Such a system would involve:<\/p>\n