A continuous improvement approach to social and emotional competency measurement

Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology

Volumn 55, Issue , 2018, Pages 93-106

  Davidson, Laura A ^a   Crowder, Marisa K ^a,b   Gordon, Rachel A ^d   Domitrovich, Celene E ^c,e   Brown, Randal D ^a,b   Hayes, Benjamin I ^a  

^a Washoe County School District   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^c Social and Emotional Learning   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^e GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuous measure improvement; Item response theory; Researcher practitioner partnership; Social emotional competency; Social emotional learning

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; RASCH ANALYSIS; SCIENTIST; SELF REPORT; STUDENT;

EID: 85016601456     PISSN: 01933973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.appdev.2017.03.002     Document Type: Article

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