Strengthening School Connectedness to Increase Student Success
Category: Student Well-Being
Instrument Overview
Designed for the evaluation of school‐based character education programs. Multiple choice measure of psychosocial maturity derived from developmental theory that identifies the capacity to differentiate and coordinate the social perspectives of self and other to be central to treating other people in respectful and ethical ways. Items in the measure pose dilemmas common social situations with peers or adults. Uses a model of relationship awareness that includes 3 social‐cognitive constructs which are: 1) interpersonal understanding or social reasoning 2) interpersonal negotiation strategies or conflict resolution in thought and action and 3) awareness of the personal meaning of relationships. Relationship framework, in describing how social‐cognitive capacities underlie social interaction and development, addresses a common critique of cognitive‐ developmental approaches to sociomoral research: that there is little relation between the development of social cognition and real‐world action.
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Organization
Topic
Student Well-Being Category
American Institutes for Research® partnered with the Annenberg Institute at Brown University to collect instruments related to student well-being.
Content
Grades
< 3 Years,
Pre-Kindergarten,
6th Grade,
7th Grade,
8th Grade,
9th Grade,
10th Grade,
11th Grade,
12th Grade
Keywords
Self-Awareness ; Social Awareness ; Relationship Skills ; Responsible Decision Making ;
Administration Information
Length
24 items
Access and Use
Developer
L. H. Schultz, D. J. Barr, & R. L. Selman
Setting
Schoolwide
Psychometrics (additional guidance)
Psychometric References
Schultz, L. H., Barr, D. J., & Selman, R. L. (2001).The value of a developmental approach to evaluating character
development programmes: An outcome study of Facing History and Ourselves. Journal of Moral Education,
30, 3‐27.
Schultz, L.H. & Selman, R.L. (2000) The meaning and measurement of social competence from a
developmental perspective, Working Paper 153 (New York, Russell Sage Foundation).
Schultz, L. H. & Selman, R. L. (2004). The development of psychosocial maturity in young children: A Measure
for evaluating character education programs. Journal of Research in Character Education, 2, 19‐87.
Schultz, L.H., Selman, R.L., & LaRusso, M.D. (2003). The assessment of psychosocial maturity in children and
adolescents: Implications for the evaluation of school‐based character education programs. Journal of
Research in Character Education, 1, 67‐87
