Choosing and Using SEL Competency Assessments: What Schools and Districts Need to Know

This resource provides school and district leaders and implementation teams with guidance on how to choose and use social and emotional learning (SEL) competency assessments. It discusses the benefits and challenges of measuring SEL competencies, what to consider when choosing an SEL competency assessment, and guidance for using SEL competency data in practice.

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Resource Categories

How to monitor student outcomes
What to do with your monitoring data

User Type

Partner MERL/T&S staff
Teachers/Fellows
School leadership

 

Target Outcomes

Non-academic
Language
English

Relevance

Relevance: 5 out of 5

Target Population

Lower primary
Upper primary
Secondary
Year created/revised
2018
Evidence-based and/or insights-driven
True

User Friendliness

User friendliness: 4 out of 5

Keywords

Social and Emotional Learning (SEL), SEL Competency Assessments, SEL Program Evaluation, Student Well-being, Formative Assessment, Measuring SEL Outcomes, SEL Implementation, SEL in Upper Primary, SEL in Secondary Education, SEL Tools, School Climate, SEL Measurement Guidelines, Social and emotional learning, competency assessment, SEL assessment, SEL competencies, SEL instruction and implementation, evaluate SEL effectiveness, formative SEL competency assessment, summative SEL competency assessments, validity in assessments, reliability in assessments

Comments

This tool is very useful for teachers, school leaders, MERL practitioners, and researchers who want to implement and evaluate SEL competency assessments. It helps in selecting appropriate tools for measuring students’ social-emotional skills and applying data to improve student well-being and learning environments.