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Understanding, Measuring, & Assessing the Development of Interpersonal Skills in 4K

Understanding, Measuring, & Assessing the Development of Interpersonal Skills in 4K Kristin Shutts & Charles Kalish Presentation for the MEP Symposium April 26, 2018. Social Skills. Social Skills. Our Project: Phase I.

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Understanding, Measuring, & Assessing the Development of Interpersonal Skills in 4K

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  1. Understanding, Measuring, & Assessing the Development of Interpersonal Skills in 4K Kristin Shutts & Charles Kalish Presentation for the MEP Symposium April 26, 2018

  2. Social Skills

  3. Social Skills

  4. Our Project: Phase I In Spring of 2017, we met with 30 teachers and administrators across 17 different 4K sites to learn … • Are social skills important to develop in 4K? • What social skills are important to develop in 4K? • Thoughts about current measures

  5. Our Project: Phase I Are social skills important to develop in 4K? • Every person we talked to said yes • Most said the domain was more important than any other

  6. Our Project: Phase I What social skills are important to develop in 4K? • Intrapersonal skills: • Impulse control • Flexibility (task-switching) • Managing one’s feelings • Interpersonal skills: • Take another’s perspective • Make friends • Make sense of & get along in social interactions • Be in tune with the group

  7. Our Project: Phase I What do you think of current measures available to you for assessing children’s social skills? • Many teachers thought they had a good sense of their students’ social skills. • Some teachers felt that the proportion of the time they spent formally assessing & documenting children’s various skills wasn’t in line with the stated and felt importance of social skills. • A lot of discussion of GOLD …

  8. Our Project: Phase I About GOLD … • Very common responses: • It takes too much time • I don’t have time to do it • Additionally, some said: • No one ever looks at it • Not great professional development around it • Useful for lesson ideas, but not evaluation • Not clear: evaluating child or evaluating self?

  9. Our Project: Phase IIa

  10. Relationships: detecting affiliation and status Who is friends with [top person]? Which person is in charge?

  11. Social learning: following & seeking information

  12. Other Measures Intrapersonal Skills Additional Interpersonal Perspective Taking Reading Emotions How is this kid feeling?

  13. Other Measures Do you like school? Do you have friends?

  14. Phase IIb • We administered our measures to 95 children enrolled in 4K at four different sites. • We also asked teachers to rate each child on each of the skills we measured. • Thus, we have 3 kinds of teacher assessments (ones we collected, 4K report card grades, GOLD ratings).

  15. How well our tasks correlate with ratings we collected from teachers Teacher Rating r = .51 Student Task Performance

  16. How well our tasks correlate with report card SEL items Report Card SEL r = .47 Student Task Performance

  17. Which of our tasks were best/worst at predicting SEL grades? • Best: • Worst:

  18. Take-Home & Future Directions • Teachers see social skill development as a primary goal of 4K • Our tasks overlap, though not perfectly, with teachers’ assessments of students. • Next year: Which measures (alone or together) best predict children’s success in kindergarten?

  19. Acknowledgements • 4K teachers and principals who participated in interviews • Allis, Franklin, Sandburg, & Thoreau • MEP for support • My collaborators: Chuck Kalish and Rachel King

  20. How well the ratings we collected from teachers predict report card grades Report Card r = .68 Teacher Ratings

  21. How well our tasks correlate with report card grades (all areas) Report Card r = .56 Student Task Performance

  22. How well do our tasks correlate with the GOLD-SEL r = .29

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