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Social and Emotional Learning Implementation with Latinx Learners. Brief 4: Status Quo and Next Steps for Schoolwide Social and Emotional Learning
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Murano, Dana; Daley, Nola; Casillas, Alex – ACT, Inc., 2021
This issue brief is part of a five-part series that reports findings from research conducted by ACT in collaboration with Region One Education Service Center. This brief focuses on establishing conditions for social and emotional learning (SEL) implementation and includes results from a survey administered to educators who attended a professional…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Program Implementation, Hispanic American Students, Grade 8
Social and Emotional Learning Implementation with Latinx Learners. Brief 5: Family Knowledge and Engagement
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Daley, Nola; Murano, Dana; Casillas, Alex – ACT, Inc., 2021
This brief is part of a five-part series that reports findings from research conducted by ACT in collaboration with Region One Education Service Center. This brief focuses on family engagement with social and emotional learning (SEL) and includes results from surveys administered to two samples of parents/family members, one sample within Region…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Program Implementation, Hispanic American Students, Grade 8
Social and Emotional Learning Implementation with Latinx Learners. Brief 1: Ready for Implementation?
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Murano, Dana; Daley, Nola; Casillas, Alex – ACT, Inc., 2021
This issue brief is part of a five-part series that reports findings from research conducted by ACT in collaboration with Region One Education Service Center. This study focuses on SEL implementation and includes results from surveys completed by educators and administrators who participated in an SEL implementation study during the 2019-2020…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Program Implementation, Hispanic American Students, Grade 8
Social and Emotional Learning Implementation with Latinx Learners. Brief 2: Student Reactions and Perceived Gains to Social and Emotional Learning Lessons
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Daley, Nola; Murano, Dana; Casillas, Alex – ACT, Inc., 2021
This issue brief is part of a five-part series that reports findings from research conducted by ACT in collaboration with Region One Education Service Center. This brief focuses on the efficacy of social and emotional learning (SEL) lessons implemented and includes results from surveys completed by students who participated in an SEL lessons…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Program Implementation, Hispanic American Students, Grade 8
Social and Emotional Learning Implementation with Latinx Learners. Brief 3: Relationships between Social and Emotional Skill Building Lessons and Student Outcomes
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Daley, Nola; Murano, Dana; Casillas, Alex – ACT, Inc., 2021
This issue brief is part of a five-part series that reports findings from research conducted by ACT in collaboration with Region One Education Service Center. This brief focuses on the efficacy of SEL lessons implemented during the 2019-2020 school year and examines their relationship to school-reported student outcomes such as grades, attendance,…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Program Implementation, Hispanic American Students, Grade 8
School-Based Interventions: Targeting Social and Emotional Skills to Increase the College Readiness of Hispanic Students from Underserved Backgrounds. Technical Brief
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Albert, Melissa A.; Way, Jason D.; Moore, Joann; Walton, Kate E.; Casillas, Alex; McCormick, Norma Ortiz – ACT, Inc., 2020
Learners from underserved backgrounds tend to show lower levels of college readiness (ACT, 2016a; ACT, 2018). In part to address these disparities, the authors investigated growth in social and emotional (SE) skills in a cohort of largely Hispanic, high-poverty students who participated in GEAR UP. GEAR UP is a discretionary federal grant program…
Descriptors: Intervention, College Readiness, Hispanic American Students, Poverty
Reducing Gaps in First-Year Outcomes between Hispanic First-Generation College Students and Their Peers: The Role of Accelerated Learning and Financial Aid
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Latino, Christian A.; Stegmann, Gabriela; Radunzel, Justine; Way, Jason D.; Sanchez, Edgar; Casillas, Alex – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2020
Hispanic students are the most likely out of all racial or ethnic groups to be first-generation college students (FGCS). Hispanic FGCS have been shown to be the least likely to persist out of all racial or ethnic backgrounds. However, there is little literature on this population. To address this, the present study investigated the association of…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, College Freshmen, First Generation College Students, Hispanic American Students
The Interplay between Race/Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Status, and Social and Emotional Skills. ACT Research Report 2020-2
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Kuo, Yi-Lung; Casillas, Alex; Walton, Kate E.; Way, Jason D.; Moore, Joann L. – ACT, Inc., 2020
The interactions of race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status (SES) in predicting social and emotional (SE) skills was examined for 81,950 6th-8th graders. At low levels of SES, White students tended to have the lower SE scores. However, as SES increased, they tended to have higher scores relative to minority groups. Across SES levels, Asian…
Descriptors: Racial Differences, Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Status, Emotional Response