Social Awareness scale

Social awareness is the ability to take the perspective of and empathize with others from diverse backgrounds and cultures, to understand social and ethical norms for behavior, and to recognize family, school, and community resources and supports. This scale by Transform Education is a self-reported student survey asks students to reflect on and assess their social awareness, and has been piloted and scaled in schools, most notably as part of the CORE Districts’ data measurement system in California.

Constructs Being Measured
Primary: 
Social awareness
How to Access and Cite

A subset of items are in the CORE Districts SEL tool.

To access the resource, visit https://www.transformingeducation.org/sel-assessment/

Outcome Families
Well-being
Connectedness
Awareness
Agency
Mastery
Programmatic Purpose
Classroom-level data and feedback
Program-level monitoring and evaluation
Instrument Characteristics
Type of items: 

8 Likert type questions

Format: 
Self-report
Applicable Grade Levels
Pre-primary
Primary
Secondary
Post-secondary
Supporting Research

Adapted from AIR and CASEL (2013) Student self-report of social and emotional competencies.

Points to Consider

For more guidance on measuring student learning and best practices in adapting measurement tools to your contexts, check out the Portal page on Monitoring and Evaluation. You can also contact Alvin Vista (Knowledge Lead, Student Outcomes) and Robbie Dean (Director of Research) for specific questions.