Assessing teachers' social and emotional competence : the validation of SECTRS in Italy, Latvia, and Portugal
Despite growing interest in evaluating the social and emotional learning of students and the development of standardized assessment tools for this purpose, there remains a dearth of validated instruments for evaluating teachers’ social and emotional skills. We set out to address this knowledge gap b...
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| author | Ilaria Grazzani Baiba Martinsone Celeste Simoes Valeria Cavioni Elisabetta Conte Veronica Ornaghi Alessandro Pepe |
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| description | Despite growing interest in evaluating the social and emotional learning of students and the development of standardized assessment tools for this purpose, there remains a dearth of validated instruments for evaluating teachers’ social and emotional skills. We set out to address this knowledge gap by investigating the psychometric characteristics of the Social-Emotional Competence Teacher Rating Scale (SECTRS) questionnaire, an instrument originally developed and validated in North America. Participants were 572 teachers from Italy (n=324), Latvia (n=139), and Portugal (n=109) ranging from 40 to 59 years of age. We performed confirmatory factor analysis procedures to validate a four-factor model measuring Teacher-student relationships, Emotion regulation, Social awareness, and Interpersonal relationships. The data supported this factorial structure, with a total of 14 items included in the final model. The outcomes of a multi-group comparison indicated that the model exhibited partial invariance, up to and including metric invariance, across the three cultural settings. We discuss these findings in relation to selecting appropriate instruments for assessing the social and emotional skills of teachers in different cultural contexts. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5696ce0ab87e4f8b8a1469fff147f3a92024-04-22T04:49:13ZengCentre for Resilience & Socio-Emotional HealthInternational Journal of Emotional Education2073-76292024-04-01161708710.56300/QIAN8168Assessing teachers' social and emotional competence : the validation of SECTRS in Italy, Latvia, and PortugalIlaria Grazzani0Baiba Martinsone1Celeste Simoes2Valeria Cavioni3Elisabetta Conte4Veronica Ornaghi5Alessandro Pepe6University of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Human Sciences for Education ‘Riccardo Massa’, ItalyUniversity of Latvia, Department of Psychology, LatviaUniversidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, PortugalUniversity of Foggia, Department of Social Sciences, ItalyUniversity of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Human Sciences for Education ‘Riccardo Massa’, ItalyUniversity of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Human Sciences for Education ‘Riccardo Massa’, ItalyUniversity of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Human Sciences for Education ‘Riccardo Massa’, ItalyDespite growing interest in evaluating the social and emotional learning of students and the development of standardized assessment tools for this purpose, there remains a dearth of validated instruments for evaluating teachers’ social and emotional skills. We set out to address this knowledge gap by investigating the psychometric characteristics of the Social-Emotional Competence Teacher Rating Scale (SECTRS) questionnaire, an instrument originally developed and validated in North America. Participants were 572 teachers from Italy (n=324), Latvia (n=139), and Portugal (n=109) ranging from 40 to 59 years of age. We performed confirmatory factor analysis procedures to validate a four-factor model measuring Teacher-student relationships, Emotion regulation, Social awareness, and Interpersonal relationships. The data supported this factorial structure, with a total of 14 items included in the final model. The outcomes of a multi-group comparison indicated that the model exhibited partial invariance, up to and including metric invariance, across the three cultural settings. We discuss these findings in relation to selecting appropriate instruments for assessing the social and emotional skills of teachers in different cultural contexts.https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/120911sectrsselsocial and emotional competenceassessment toolteachers. |
| spellingShingle | Ilaria Grazzani Baiba Martinsone Celeste Simoes Valeria Cavioni Elisabetta Conte Veronica Ornaghi Alessandro Pepe Assessing teachers' social and emotional competence : the validation of SECTRS in Italy, Latvia, and Portugal International Journal of Emotional Education sectrs sel social and emotional competence assessment tool teachers. |
| title | Assessing teachers' social and emotional competence : the validation of SECTRS in Italy, Latvia, and Portugal |
| title_full | Assessing teachers' social and emotional competence : the validation of SECTRS in Italy, Latvia, and Portugal |
| title_fullStr | Assessing teachers' social and emotional competence : the validation of SECTRS in Italy, Latvia, and Portugal |
| title_full_unstemmed | Assessing teachers' social and emotional competence : the validation of SECTRS in Italy, Latvia, and Portugal |
| title_short | Assessing teachers' social and emotional competence : the validation of SECTRS in Italy, Latvia, and Portugal |
| title_sort | assessing teachers social and emotional competence the validation of sectrs in italy latvia and portugal |
| topic | sectrs sel social and emotional competence assessment tool teachers. |
| url | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/120911 |
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