A Big Five-Based Multimethod Social and Emotional Skills Assessment: The Mosaic by ACT & Social Emotional Learning Assessment

We report the reliability and validity evidence for The Mosaic ™ by ACT® Social Emotional Learning Assessment, an assessment designed to measure SE skills in middle and high school students that makes use of a research-based framework (the Big Five) and a multi-method approach (three item types including Likert, forced choice, and situational judgment tests). Here, we provide the results from data collected from more than 33,000 students who completed the assessment and for whom we have data on various outcome measures. We examined the validity evidence for the individual item types and the aggregate scores based on those three. Our findings support the contribution of multi-method assessment and an aggregate score. We discuss the ways the field can benefit from this or similarly designed assessments and discuss how the assessment results can be used by practitioners to promote programs aimed at stimulating students ' personal growth.Keywords: SEL; social and emotional learning; social and emotional skills; assessment; Big Five; MTMM; multi-trait multi-method****************************************** Kevin S. McGrew, PhD Educational& School Psychologist Director Institute for Applied Psychometrics (IAP)https://www.themindhub.com ******************************************
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