In the US today, where the conversation about SEL is more elevated than it has ever been before, the CASEL framework is often referenced. The Big Five Factors, identified after many years of research and analysis, are these: Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Emotional Stability, Openness, and Extraversion.įor our SEL assessment, ACT Tessera™, we’ve re-named the Big Five Factors with labels more widely used by educators, parents and policymakers. (I discuss this in step 2 of my recent ACT e-book, Eight Steps to Strengthening SEL in Your School or District).Īfter much research and consideration, ACT has chosen a framework known as the Big Five Factors (BFF) for Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) assessments, and the ACT® Holistic Framework™. School systems-at whatever level, be it global, national, state, district, school, or classroom-ought to be clear with themselves and their community about their commitments to student learning, especially in the social and emotional areas, so clarifying and communicating widely their particular common terminology is very valuable.
They use commonplace descriptors: kind and helpful calm and cool and persistent and organized. She and her colleagues discuss and reflect upon this part of their work every single day-but they hardly ever use formal or technical terms for what they are describing as their hopes for student behaviors, and they don’t really give much attention to what researcher might determine is the “right” way to organize or label these behaviors. She doesn’t need any research-based evidence to know that her job is made considerably easier-and her students learn more effectively and efficiently-when her students are supporting each other during classroom activities, when they are staying calm and not getting angry or upset, when they set goals and don’t give up, and when they make good choices about handling the difficult decisions that come your way when you are 13 in the year 2018. Her primary job is introducing 13-year-olds to solving linear equations and applying quadratic functions (and I dare readers here to take on such a project on a daily basis!). My wife is an 8th grade math teacher in a downtown Tucson, Arizona charter school, located in the basement of our city’s historic YMCA.
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