The Social Shape Up System

In Phase I the team developed a prototype of the product and tested its feasibility in 10 classrooms. Results demonstrated that teachers found the product to be easy to use and that it could be incorporated within regular instruction without issue. Phase I also provided data that the research team will use to iteratively refine the product. Phase II development will focus on refining the scripting language, the database management system, and the HTML pages to provide both data processing and input/output presentation functions. All basic aspects of the product will be iteratively tested, such as the user access control, the monitoring behaviors functions, the classroom reporting functions, and system use monitoring and management functions such as the class scales management and the daily and weekly data entry status. In order to assess feasibility and usability, and to gather data on the promise of the product to track and support improvements in student behavior, pilot research will test the product with 30 teachers over a two month period. Half of the teachers will use the product whereas half will not. Analyses will examine students across several areas of socio-emotional competence.