About 6% of items in the most-used measures operationalize students' social and emotional skills, appearing in 58.14% of measures¶
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q3 i? 113 items (6.39% of all items) across 25 measures (58.14%) operationalize social and emotional skills in students' daily life at school. → Castro 2026
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Castro 2026¶
Castro, C., Barata, M. C., Alexandre, J., & Santos, R. (2026). Placing Social and Emotional Support at the Center of School Climate: A Scoping Review of Measures for Middle and Secondary Schools. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-026-10192-x
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Level-2 item-level content analysis of the 43 most-used measures. Examples include "Students help one another" (Perceived School Climate Scale) and "[School] encourages students to care about how others feel" (CHKS). Nine measures lacked publicly available item lists.
"We found 113 items (6.39% of all items), across 25 different measures (58.14%), which operationalize social and emotional skills in students' daily life at school."
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About 6% of items in the most-used measures operationalize students' social and emotional skills, appearing in 58.14% of measures |
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About 6% of items in the most-used measures operationalize students' social and emotional skills, appearing in 58.14% of measures |
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