Presentations from a research meeting hosted by the Buros Center for Testing with funding from Spencer Foundation

This project brought together a select group of twelve psychometricians, educators and psychologists involved in the development and use of social-emotional measures for a working meeting to discuss shared psychometric issues.  The goal is then to capture that discussion into a publishable and distributable set of recommendations and guidelines for collecting and documenting evidence about the use of these types of measure in education that aligns with 2014 Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing and expands on the Buros Center for Testing’s mission to improve the science and practice of testing and assessment.  

Relationships of Noncognitive Characteristics and Socio-emotional Learning - Kurt F. Geisinger, PhD

Practical, Usable, & Developmentally Informed - Susanne Denham, PhD

Tools to Support Classroom Assessment of Social Emotional Competencies - Laura Hamilton, PhD

Importance of Triangulation: Practical Methods and Application - Beverly Vandiver, PhD

Validating Psychological Constructs Before Making Claims About Utility: Cautionary Tales - Frank Worrell, PhD

Some Validity Considerations for SEL Measures - Thomas Hogan, PhD

Assessing non-cognitive constructs in I/O psychology: Validity, Reliability, and Fairness considerations for SEL assessment in Education - Neal Schmitt, PhD

The Practicalities of Social-Emotional Assessment Implementation - Randy Kamphaus, PhD

Psychometrics of SEL Competence Assessment: The View from the Schoolhouse - Clark McKown, PhD

Assessing Children’s Social Emotional Learning Skills for Intervention - Stephen Elliott, PhD

Measuring SEL with Multiple Methods: Criterion-Related Validity and Subgroup Differences - Jeremy Burrus, PhD

Pushing the Psychometric Lens to Meet Function - Michael Rodriguez, PhD

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