Faculty Publications
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Published Version
Keywords
Social and emotional learning, Standards-based grading
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Social and Emotional Learning Research Practice and Policy
Volume
5
First Page
1
Last Page
10
Abstract
Classroom grading reform and students’ whole child development are two important and timely topics in today's schools. In this article, the authors draw parallels between CASEL's five core competencies of social and emotional learning and the guiding principles of standards-based grading (SBG). This article helps educators understand SEL competencies and SBG principles as well as barriers to implementation. The authors outline how explicitly developing students’ social-emotional learning skills and implementing SBG are complementary. Implications for practice and research are discussed. Impact Statement: As schools are tasked with continuous improvement through systemic reform, school personnel can feel overwhelmed by the number of initiatives and changes to daily practices. In this article, the authors discuss how two common initiatives, implementation of standards based grading (SBG) and social and emotional learning (SEL) instruction, are connected. The potential benefits of this crosswalk include teachers and school leaders recognizing a method for integrating SEL instruction into the classroom while at the same time improving grading practices. In this paper, the authors propose that standards-based grading is also a method to support emotional socialization and SEL skill development.
Department
Department of Learning, Leadership and Community
Original Publication Date
6-1-2025
Object Description
1 PDF File
DOI of published version
10.1016/j.sel.2024.100076
Repository
UNI ScholarWorks, Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa
Copyright
©2025 The Author(s)
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Skaar, Nicole R. and Townsley, Matt, "Integrating Social-Emotional Learning and Standards-based Grading: Principles, Barriers, and Future Directions" (2025). Faculty Publications. 6884.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/facpub/6884
Comments
First published in Social and Emotional Learning: Research, Practice, and Policy, v5 (Jun 2025) published by Elsevier Inc. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sel.2024.100076