Catalogue for the Assessment of Social, Emotional, and Intercultural Competencies

The following catalogue contains 169 scientific assessment tools and 15 existing practices in order to measure social, emotional, and intercultural competencies in 8th grade. These tools were collected by the team at Technical University Munich within the framework of the project Hand in Hand - Social and Emotional Skills for Tolerant and Non-Discriminative Societies (A Whole School Approach). The collection is based on a systematic literature review and completed through inputs by four partner institutions (Educational Research Institute, Ljubljana; Institute for Social Research, Zagreb; Mid Sweden University, Sundsvall; German Institute for International Educational Research, Frankfurt).
In order to conduct an interdisciplinary systematic review, we selected the following databases: ERIC (Pedagogy), PsycInfo (Psychology), PSYNDEX (Psychology), Scopus (Natural-, Engineering Science and Medicine) and Web of Science (Natural-, Social Sciences, and Humanities). The date search was limited to articles published between the years 2000 to 2017 (empirical turn from 2000 onward). The document type was restricted to peer-reviewed articles and dissertations only, and the language was set to German and English. The time period of article review was from March 2017 to August 2017. Three researchers with a background in social sciences, psychology, and in education performed this review. We combined several keywords relating to measurement (e.g. “assessment”, “measure”, “psychometric”), to cognition (e.g. “social”, “emotional”, “intercultural”), to the instruments (e.g. “self-report”, “questionnaire”, “interview”) and to the intended actors (e.g. “student”, ”teacher”, “school staff”). We excluded keywords relating to disorders (e.g. “behavior disorder”), to irrelevant fields (e.g. “Science and Engineering Indicators”) and to other actor groups(e.g. “toddler”). Overall, this search criteria elicited 13,963 articles across all databases. After systematically screening the titles, 494 articles were selected; however, 65 duplicate articles had to be eliminated. The remaining abstracts were screened, and of these articles, 150 of them contained a structured or semi-structured assessment tool relevant to our project. Additionally, four partner institutions contributed 19 assessment tools and 15 existing practices.
This catalogue includes 102 tools for assessing social competences, 73 tools for emotional competences, and 74 for assessing “intercultural” competences. Those tools encompass 146 inventories (e.g. questionnaires, self-reports, surveys) and 13 other types of assessment tools (e.g. interviews, observation tools, vignettes); 108 tools address students and 63 tools target school staff (e.g. teachers, social worker, and principals).
Index:
On file?: Yes = Available on hard drive; Yes (link) = Available on webpage; Yes - in article = Available in article; No - article only = Not available; No - Need Access = For purchase on webpage
S: Social Competence
E: Emotional Competence
I: “Intercultural” Competencea
ST: Students
SS: School Staff
N: Participants
NA: Not Available
α: Cronbach’s alpha, measurement of reliability
r: correlation
r2: retest reliability
Web: http://www.handinhand.si/
Mail: hand-in-hand[at]edu.tum.de