Educators' efforts to support SEL are hampered by a lack of available, unbiased measures of related competencies¶
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q2 i? A lack of available, unbiased measures of SEL competencies hampers educators' work to support SEL. → James Soland 2019
Evidence¶
James Soland 2019¶
James Soland, Gema Zamarro, Albert Cheng, Collin Hitt. (2019). Identifying naturally occurring direct assessments of social-emotional competencies: The promise and limitations of survey and assessment disengagement metadata. Educational Researcher 48 (7). https://journals.sagepub.com/home/edr doi:10.3102/0013189x19861356
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The abstract identifies the measurement problem motivating the review: "the work of educators to support SEL is hampered by a lack of available, unbiased measures of related competencies." No supporting studies or statistics are printed in the available text.
"the work of educators to support SEL is hampered by a lack of available, unbiased measures of related competencies"
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Related Claims¶
- Measuring SEL involves a tradeoff between measuring narrower discrete skills and measuring broader competencies — related
- Existing arts-SEL research lacks the rigor to support strong empirical claims of direct causal contribution — related
- Assessment of young multilingual learners is hampered by a dearth of valid, linguistically appropriate measures and by English-only administration — related
- The authors assert that innovative assessment measures capture POG competencies more fully than traditional standardized tests — related
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Educators' efforts to support SEL are hampered by a lack of available, unbiased measures of related competencies |
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Educators' efforts to support SEL are hampered by a lack of available, unbiased measures of related competencies |
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