Designing assessment, monitoring, and evaluation for systemic SEL implementation

This chapter offers guidance on how to establish assessment, monitoring, and evaluation for systemic SEL implementation. As SEL is not only an outcome to be achieved, but a process of institutional and social transformation as well as human development, an assessment, monitoring, evaluation system designed to support SEL delivery should do more than measure a student’s social and emotional profile at a given time. It should provide information that can guide and facilitate understanding of the entire process for SEL and development. The chapter offers starting points for designing assessment, monitoring, and evaluation for systemic implementation of SEL by providing guidance on how to select a framework and approach, the types of information that may be
needed, as well as considerations for choosing tools and processes for data collection within a systemic approach. It further provides guidance on how to plan for sharing and using information to continue improvements.