By Clark McKown People often have very strong opinions about student assessment, particularly when it comes to social and emotional learning assessment. This is especially true when discussing the use of SEL assessment for screening. One colleague is adamant that …
By Clark McKown Forgive me for being master of the obvious here, but SEL assessment data alone won’t change the world. But they can help. These two blog posts (starting with Making Sense of your SEL Assessment Data) are designed …
Read MorePlanning and Acting on Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) Assessment Data
By Clark McKown A colleague of mine in the education community and I were discussing SEL assessment a couple of years ago. Her district had recently administered SELweb EE, our SEL assessment system, to assess children in first through third …
Read MoreUnderstanding and Analyzing Social-Emotional (SEL) Assessment Data
By Clark McKown My colleagues and I think a lot about how to use SEL assessment data for continuous improvement to make life better for teachers and the kids they serve, and for researchers who care about student social-emotional outcomes. …
Read MoreSix Steps for Continuous Improvement in Social Emotional Learning (SEL)
By Clark McKown (Originally appeared in the Transforming Education blog on July 11, 2018.) Multi-tiered systems of support, or MTSS, are based on a simple and positive premise: We should use data to teach in ways that build on student …
By Clark McKown Most people agree that children are better off when they have the skills they need to interact effectively with others, form positive relationships, and participate successfully in school and life. These are social-emotional skills, and the process …
Read MoreWhat is Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) Assessment?
By Clark McKown In a time of divisive public discourse, it’s nice to know that parents, teachers, and others agree that the abilities to interact successfully with others and to make and maintain positive relationships are valuable skills to be …
Read MoreFive Tips for Parent Engagement with Social-Emotional Assessment
By Clark McKown Many SEL programs, when taught with sufficient quality and intensity, produce measurable improvements in student social, emotional, and academic outcomes. Those measurable benefits are summarized nicely in a meta-analysis of the impact of SEL programs on student …
Read MoreStrengthening Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Programs
By Clark McKown So you want to assess your students’ SEL skills. Before you get started, please keep in mind an important fact. Assessments are dumb. They don’t know how you’re going to use them and they have no say …
Read MoreDefining Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Assessment Goals
By Clark McKown When you boil it down, an educational test is a sample of behavior that is evaluated to make a judgment about a child’s academic strengths and needs. To test reading fluency, for example, a child reads a …
Read MoreTwo Kinds of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Assessment Tools
