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Product: In this project, the team will fully develop a product called SELQuest, a platform to manage the assessment of social emotional competencies of students from Kindergarten to Grade 12. The platform will host a series of existing research-based online learning games and digital instruments that assess students' social and emotional components, including assessments developed through prior IES-funded projects (see examples here and here). The platform will streamline planning and administration, employ algorithms and an application programming interface (API) to automatically score assessments from the library and present educators' results and recommendations at individual student and group levels. The platform will also provide training and supports to educators.
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Video Demonstration of the Phase I Prototype: https://youtu.be/hRCkjXVTtHQ
In Phase II, the team will fully develop and validate the product, including fully populating the instrument library, improving the user-interface for a student portal to take assessments, a back-end algorithm to generate results, and an educator dashboard to present insights from the assessments. Iterative refinements will be conducted with feedback from educators and students at multiple points until completion.After development concludes, researchers will conduct a pilot study to assess the feasibility and usability, fidelity of implementation, and the promise of the product for improving students' social and emotional competencies. The team will collect data from 84 Kindergarten to Grade 12 educators and 1300 students (100 students per grade). Half of the sample will be randomly assigned to use the product and the other half will be assessed using business-as-usual practices. Researchers will compare pre-and-post scores for students' social and emotional competencies using a series of established and validated measures, including district-level measures for social awareness, emotional knowledge, and motivation for learning, as well as researcher developed measures for competencies in areas such as impulse control and perspective taking. Researchers will gather cost information using the "ingredients method" and will include all expenditures on things such as personnel, facilities, equipment, materials, and training.
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