Unit four: SEL assessments
Unit overview
Traditional assessments can't evaluate SE skill accurately. How do educators do their strategies are working? In this unit, we are going to discuss The Mosaic™ by ACT® Social Emotional Learning Assessment, an assessment designed to measure SE skills in middle and high school students that makes use of a research-based framework (the Big Five) (Walton et al., 2022, p.1), and find out what are the strength and weakness of the previous item types ? What advantages do The Big Five have? After the comparation, think about how do you plan to use The Big Five framework to assess SE skills?
Learning objectives
After this unit learning you can
- Understand different item types' strength and weakness.
- Use The Big Five framework to assess students' SE skills.
Essential questions
- What are the item types have been used to assess SE skills?
- What are the advantages of The Big Five have?
Read & Watch
1. Read: Walton, K. E., Burrus, J., Murano, D., Anguiano-Carrasco, C., Way, J., & Roberts, R. D. (2022).[1]
2. Watch
Activities & when it's due
Discussion:
As you read the articles and watch the videos, thinking about the following questions: What are your understanding of The Big Five is an ideal candidate for SE skills assessments? How can you plan to use it to evaluate your students' SE skills? Please use the reading materials and videos to support your ideas. Be sure to make reply to at least two others' posts. Make sure to review Discussion Rubrics .
Use the following labels as scaffolds to structure and deepen your postings and responses as appropriate. Feel free to create your own scaffold labels. [An Important Idea I've Learned] [This Idea Makes Me Think] [Carrying This Idea Forward] [If so, then what] [My Question] [My Theory] [My Experience] [To Improve My Practice] [Putting our Knowledge Together] [I disagree because] [I don't understand].
Click the link to enter and reply posts
When it's due:
- Initial post: Wednesday night .
- Follow-up post 1: Thursday night
- Follow-up post 2: Friday night .
Discussion self-assessment
Use this template to complete your discussion self-assessment
When it's due:
Sunday night
Reflective Journal
Use the following questions to organize your thoughts in reflective journal. Please Submit journal no late than Sunday.
When it's due:
Sunday night
Reflection Questions:
1. What did you learn this week that you think will stay with you? Why? How do you know you learned it?
2. What helped your learning?
3. What hindered your learning?
4. What would help you to learn better (both what you can do and what I can do)?
5. Anything else you want to say?
References:
- Heart Shift Consulting: SEL Minis (2022, April 18) Assessing Social Emotional Learning.[Video]. Streaming Service. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk2ROtbCObY
- Walton, K. E., Burrus, J., Murano, D., Anguiano-Carrasco, C., Way, J., & Roberts, R. D. (2022). A Big Five-Based Multimethod Social and Emotional Skills Assessment: The Mosaic™ by ACT® Social Emotional Learning Assessment. Journal of Intelligence, 10(4), 72.