- Mitra Fatolapour, Soyeon Hwang, Mario Piergallini, Julie Shim, Steven W. Dow, C. Rosé. 2014. Designing and Validating a Story-Based Socio-Emotional Learning Assessment Instrument. Abstract: : Current assessment instruments for socio-emotional skills typically focus on diagnosing dysfunction and need to be administered by teachers and parents. To explore socio-emotional learning in novel environments, the learning sciences community needs scalable, easy-to-administer research instruments that measure growth in normal children. In this paper, we report on an iterative design process and a series of validation studies for a story-based multiple-choice assessment tool that can be used efficiently by researchers in large-scale evaluations of technology-based socio-emotional learning (SEL) environments.
