ERIC Number: EJ1221516
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019-Aug
Pages: 5
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ISSN: ISSN-0734-2829
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Test Review: Social Skills Improvement System Social-Emotional Learning Edition
Rigney, Alexander M.
Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, v37 n5 p669-673 Aug 2019
This report reviews the "Social Skills Improvement System Social-Emotional Learning Edition" (SSIS SEL; Gresham & Elliott, 2017), a multicomponent rating scale that includes a criterion and norm-referenced measure of social-emotional and academic functioning--based on a reformulation of the "Social Skills Improvement System" (SSIS; Gresham & Elliott, 2008). Both measures can be used to assess the five social-emotional core competencies outlined by the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning. Practitioners could utilize this scale to universally screen for social-emotional difficulties and progress monitor throughout the year. For students identified as at-risk based on the screener, practitioners can use these scales as part of a multimethod, multisetting, multirater psychoeducational assessment process. This measure includes the same social-emotional competency domains as those on the screening/progress monitoring scale, which can be used to form the SEL composite. The SSIS SEL includes the assessment manual, intervention program manual, screening/progress monitoring forms, and parent and/or teacher and/or student forms. The author concludes that it would be beneficial for practitioners if more up-to-date normative data and additional reliability data were presented for both the screening/progress monitoring scale and parent, teacher, and student forms. These additions would provide more support for a recommendation of the use of the SSIS SEL for assessing and monitoring social-emotional competence in K-12 students.
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Interpersonal Competence, Social Development, Emotional Development, Intervention, Academic Ability, At Risk Students, Screening Tests, Guides, Emotional Disturbances, Psychoeducational Methods, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Test Construction, Item Analysis, Test Reliability, Test Validity, Teacher Attitudes, Parent Attitudes, Correlation, Program Descriptions
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Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Social Skills Improvement System Rating Scales
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