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Considering SEL Frameworks and the Three Musketeers?

September 26, 2018 Inform

By: Dale A. Blyth, Consultant Remember the three Musketeers – three brave men whose motto was One for All, and All for One? They symbolized how important it was to work as a team (one for all) as well as how critical it was for all to be working toward one common end. As I was finishing up the new series of three briefs on SEL frameworks released this month I started thinking about this motto and whether or not it applied to social and emotional learning (SEL). These days there are a multitude of SEL frameworks – at least 136 by AIR’s count! Are all these frameworks individual efforts to advance the “one” approach to SEL? And what […]

Design Challenge Winner: PAIRIN’s Problem-Solving Performance Assessment

September 19, 2018 Inspire

By: Tara Laughlin, PAIRIN The world is full of problems. Not to be a downer, but I’m setting the stage here. On a personal, professional, local, national, and international level, it can sometimes feel like everywhere you turn, there’s a new problem waiting to be solved. Given this sheer volume of problems, I think it’s safe to say the world needs an equally impressive corps of effective problem solvers. How do we help develop the next generation of problem solvers? And how do we know when someone has reached the status of master problem solver? Answering those questions is not as hard as it may seem. Just as the best way to determine if someone is an effective […]

Design Challenge Winner: Failing Forward: How a Flawed Assessment Inspired a Bold and Innovative New Approach

September 12, 2018 Inspire

By: Nicole Ramos, M.Ed. (NERDi Consulting) and Stacie R. Furia, Ph.D. (NERDi Consulting) BUILD is a non-profit organization that uses entrepreneurship and experiential education to propel students through high school to college and career success. BUILD believes that its outstanding success in helping low-income youth of color enroll and persist in college is due to mentorship, entrepreneurship, and the development of Spark Skills.* (A set of 6 skills educators might find familiar – Communication, Collaboration, Problem Solving, Innovation, Grit and Self-Management.) BUILD set out to create an assessment to help prove and improve impact on students’ Spark Skills growth. Like many of BUILD’s peers, the first attempt at an assessment included a pre-test/post-test, self-perception questionnaire with items largely adapted […]

Design Challenge Winner: Measuring Social Reasoning in Children

September 5, 2018 Inspire

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On the Use of the Big Five Model as a SEL Assessment Framework

August 29, 2018 Inform

By: Dana Murano, Jason Way, Cristina Anguiano-Carrasco, Kate E. Walton, and Jeremy Burrus; Center for Social, Emotional, and Academic Learning, ACT, Inc. Most researchers agree that social and emotional skills are a) important, b) can be improved through systematic programming, and c) must somehow be organized and assessed. The belief that these skills must be organized and assessed emphasizes the need for a social and emotional skills framework, of which there are myriad. An ongoing debate concerns whether or not the Big Five personality framework is an appropriate framework through which to organize social and emotional skills. The Big Five factors include conscientiousness (work ethic; organization), agreeableness (kindness; empathy), emotional stability (composure; flexibility), openness (curiosity; analytical thinking), and extraversion (sociability; […]

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Considering SEL Frameworks and the Three Musketeers?

Design Challenge Winner: PAIRIN’s Problem-Solving Performance Assessment

Design Challenge Winner: Failing Forward: How a Flawed Assessment Inspired a Bold and Innovative New Approach

Design Challenge Winner: Measuring Social Reasoning in Children

On the Use of the Big Five Model as a SEL Assessment Framework

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