Interest in school-based strategies to support student social and emotional learning (SEL) is strong. Although SEL policies and programs designed to support the development of student competencies have advanced significantly, less work has been done to develop methods of assessing student social and emotional competence. This article briefly reviews developments in the field of social and emotional competence assessment and examines challenges and opportunities in their applied use, including (a) balancing the priorities of assessment developers and educators; (b) ensuring that the inferences and decisions made from SEL assessment scores are supported by evidence of the assessment’s psychometric merit; (c) establishing conditions for SEL assessment and data use that maximize benefit while mitigating risks; (d) coordinating standards, assessment, programs, and professional learning; and (e) balancing highly focused assessments that by design do not vary in content or format, and the varied cultural contexts in which they may be used.

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学生社会情感学习应用评估的挑战与机遇

对支持学生社交和情感学习（SEL）的基于学校的策略的兴趣浓厚。尽管旨在支持学生能力发展的SEL政策和计划已经取得了显着进步，但为评估学生的社交和情感能力的方法所做的工作却很少。本文简要回顾了社交和情感能力评估领域的发展，并探讨了其在应用中的挑战和机遇，其中包括：（a）平衡评估开发者和教育者的优先重点；（b）确保从SEL评估分数中得出的推论和决定得到评估的心理计量学优点的证据支持；（c）为SEL评估和数据使用创造条件，以在减少风险的同时最大程度地受益；（d）协调标准，评估，程序和专业学习；（e）平衡高度专注的评估，这些评估在设计上不会改变内容或格式，并且可以使用不同的文化背景。