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Social-Emotional Competence: An Essential Factor for Promoting Positive Adjustment and Reducing Risk in School Children
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Domitrovich, Celene E.; Durlak, Joseph A.; Staley, Katharine C.; Weissberg, Roger P. – Child Development, 2017
Social-emotional competence is a critical factor to target with universal preventive interventions that are conducted in schools because the construct (a) associates with social, behavioral, and academic outcomes that are important for healthy development; (b) predicts important life outcomes in adulthood; (c) can be improved with feasible and…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Screening Tests, Intervention
Cluster-Randomized Trial Demonstrating Impact on Academic Achievement of Elementary Social-Emotional Learning
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Schonfeld, David J.; Adams, Ryan E.; Fredstrom, Bridget K.; Weissberg, Roger P.; Gilman, Richard; Voyce, Charlene; Tomlin, Ricarda; Speese-Linehan, Dee – School Psychology Quarterly, 2015
This study evaluated the results of a social and emotional learning (SEL) program on academic achievement among students attending a large, urban, high-risk school district. Using a cluster-randomized design, 24 elementary schools were assigned to receive either the intervention curriculum ("Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies", or…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Randomized Controlled Trials, Elementary School Students, Social Development
The Positive Impact of Social and Emotional Learning for Kindergarten to Eighth-Grade Students: Findings from Three Scientific Reviews. Technical Report
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Payton, John; Weissberg, Roger P.; Durlak, Joseph A.; Dymnicki, Allison B.; Taylor, Rebecca D.; Schellinger, Kriston B.; Pachan, Molly – Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (NJ1), 2008
This report summarizes results from three large-scale reviews of research on the impact of social and emotional learning (SEL) programs on elementary and middle-school students--that is, programs that seek to promote various social and emotional skills. Collectively the three reviews included 317 studies and involved 324,303 children. SEL programs…
Descriptors: Emotional Problems, Social Behavior, Educational Benefits, Academic Achievement
Implementation, Sustainability, and Scaling up of Social-Emotional and Academic Innovations in Public Schools
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Elias, Maurice J.; Zins, Joseph E.; Graczyk, Patricia A.; Weissberg, Roger P. – School Psychology Review, 2003
Many attempts at bringing successful educational programs and products "to scale" as part of school reform, particularly in urban districts, have been disappointing. Based on the experiences of the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) and reviews of literature addressing implementation failures, observations about…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Educational Change, Public Schools, Program Implementation