Strengthening School Connectedness to Increase Student Success
Category: Student Well-Being
Instrument Overview
The Assessment of Children’s Emotion Skills (ACES) contains three subtests—facial expressions, behavioral descriptions, and situational vignettes–that examine children’s ability to recognize emotion arousal. In addition to prototypic facial expressions and behavioral/situational descriptions, some items contain ambiguous emotion arousal, particularly containing a mixture of sad and angry cues. In multiple studies Dr. Schultz has shown that aggressive children tend to view ambiguous negative emotion arousal as indicating anger. The facial expressions subtest comes in Powerpoint format, and the behavioral and situational vignettes are read aloud. ACES materials can be downloaded for free.
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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
Kindergarten,
1st Grade,
2nd Grade,
3rd Grade,
4th Grade,
5th Grade
Keywords
SchoolingEmotional Intelligence; Social and Emotional Competence
Respondent
Other
Administration Information
Length
15 items
Access and Use
Developer
David Shultz & UMBC Social Development Lab
Contact
Dr. David Schultz dschultz@umbc.edu
Setting
Classroom
