Strengthening School Connectedness to Increase Student Success
Category: Student Well-Being and Mental Health
ZooU is a game/performance based SEL assessment tool for students in grades 2 - 4. It is published and sold by Centervention, which also publishes other game-based assessments Zoo Academy (grades K-1), SS Grin (grades 3-5) Hall of Heroes (grades 6-8), and Stories in Motion (for K-5 students with autism).
Content
Grades
2nd Grade,
3rd Grade,
4th Grade
Languages
English
Respondent
Student
Administration Information
Length
30 minutes
Administration
Computer
Timed
Yes
Access and Use
Contact
Tel (919) 283-8899
info@centervention.com
Open Access
No
Use in Research
Craig, A. B., Brown, E. R., Upright, J., & DeRosier, M. E. (2016). Enhancing children’s social emotional functioning through virtual game-based delivery of social skills training. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 25(3), 959-968. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-015-0274-8
Craig, A. B., DeRosier, M. E., & Watanabe, Y. (2015). Differences between Japanese and US children's performance on “Zoo U”: A game-based social skills assessment. Games for Health Journal, 4(4), 285-294. https://doi.org/10.1089/g4h.2014.0075
Sliwinski, J., Katsikitis, M., & Jones, C. M. (2017). A review of interactive technologies as support tools for the cultivation of mindfulness. Mindfulness, 8(5), 1150-1159. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-017-0698-x
Psychometrics
Scoring
Computer scoring
Referencing
Norm-referenced
Psychometric References
DeRosier, M. E., & Thomas, J. M. (2018). Establishing the criterion validity of Zoo U's game-based social emotional skills assessment for school-based outcomes. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 55, 52-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2017.03.001
McCreery, M. P., Krach, S. K., Bacos, C. A., Laferriere, J. R., & Head, D. L. (2019). Can video games be used as a stealth assessment of aggression?: A criterion-related validity study. International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations (IJGCMS), 11(2), 40-49. https://doi.org/10.4018/ijgcms.2019040103
Item Type
Open response
