Implementation of the social emotional learning program FRIENDS in Greece: Implications for educators and psychologists

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anastassios Matsopoulos ◽  
Mariza Gavogiannaki
2021 ◽  
pp. 153450842098452
Author(s):  
Christopher L. Thomas ◽  
Staci M. Zolkoski ◽  
Sarah M. Sass

Educators and educational support staff are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of systematic efforts to support students’ social and emotional growth. Logically, the success of social-emotional learning programs depends upon the ability of educators to assess student’s ability to process and utilize social-emotional information and use data to guide programmatic revisions. Therefore, the purpose of the current examination was to provide evidence of the structural validity of the Social-Emotional Learning Scale (SELS), a freely available measure of social-emotional learning, within Grades 6 to 12. Students ( N = 289, 48% female, 43.35% male, 61% Caucasian) completed the SELS and the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. Confirmatory factor analyses of the SELS failed to support a multidimensional factor structure identified in prior investigations. The results of an exploratory factor analysis suggest a reduced 16-item version of the SELS captures a unidimensional social-emotional construct. Furthermore, our results provide evidence of the internal consistency and concurrent validity of the reduced-length version of the instrument. Our discussion highlights the implications of the findings to social and emotional learning educational efforts and promoting evidence-based practice.


2010 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen L. Bierman ◽  
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John D. Coie ◽  
Kenneth A. Dodge ◽  
Mark T. Greenberg ◽  
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Author(s):  
Kridsanapong Lertbumroongchai ◽  
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Kobkiat Saraubon ◽  
Prachyanun Nilsook

The purpose of this research is to synthesize the social-emotional learning process to develop practicing skills for hands-on students, to develop the process, and to evaluate the process. In this study, the documentary research method and in-depth interview method were employed. The results showed that the synthesis of the social-emotional learning process to develop practicing skills for hands-on students consisted of six steps: 1) perception is divided into sensory perception and explaining perceived, 2) observation is divided into certain goals, discretion, notes, observations, and time limit, 3) analysis and brainstorming is divided into information, brainstorming, and discovering new knowledge, 4) practicing is divided into cognitive phase, associative phase, and autonomous phase, 5) checking and improvement is divided into opinion, learning exchange, and providing opportunities, and 6) action is divided into behavior changing, and application of academic knowledge. Evaluating the social-emotional learning process to develop practicing skills for hands-on students employed in-depth interview technique consisting of 21 experts in three different areas (i.e., in learning and teaching, information technology, and mass communication technology terms). The results of the suitability evaluation revealed that the social-emotional learning process model with mixed reality for the hands-on students was at the highest level.


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