#  Social-Emotional Measures for California Office to Reform Education 

 



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**Project Status:** Past  
**Focus Area:** [School Improvement & Redesign](/view-by-focus-area/school-improvement-and-redesign)  
**Location:** California

A collaborative effort with Transforming Education to develop measures of social-emotional learning for school accountability and improvement within the California Office to Reform Education (CORE).



 

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##  People 

 



  [### Martin West

 ](/people/martin-west)Steering Committee Member, Principal Investigator, SDP Fellowship Faculty Advisor; PIER Fellowship Faculty Mentor

Professor of Education

Harvard Graduate School of Education

 

 

 

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## Partners

 

 

### Education Agencies

California Office to Reform Education (CORE) Districts

### Organizational Partners

Transforming Education



 



 

 

 

## News

 

 

##  News 

 



  [### Rating schools by students' social-emotional skills worth trying, evaluator says

 ](/news/rating-schools-students-social-emotional-skills-worth-trying-evaluator-says) March 17, 2016 

 Principal Investigator Martin West and CEPR's work with CORE on social-emotional measures are featured in the following article by EdSource. A Harvard University professor who evaluated the CORE districts’ research on the relationship between students’... 

 

 

   [### Non-Cognitive Skills: Is It Enough for Measurements to Be Valid and Reliable?

 ](/news/non-cognitive-skills-it-enough-measurements-be-valid-and-reliable) March 17, 2016 

 Martin West, CEPR Principal Investigator, and his work with California Office to Reform Education (CORE) Districts is highlighted in the following EdWeek article. Reams have been written lately about incorporating measures of students' non-cognitive and... 

 

 

   [### Should non-cognitive skills be included in school accountability systems? Preliminary evidence from California’s CORE districts

 ](/news/should-non-cognitive-skills) March 17, 2016 

 CEPR researcher Martin West discusses measures of non-cognitive skills in the following Brookings Institution paper. Evidence confirms that student skills other than academic achievement and ability predict a broad range of academic and life outcomes... 

 

 

   [### Districts break new ground with new index on school performance

 ](/news/districts-break-new-ground-new-index-school-performance) December 08, 2015 

 CEPR's work with the California Office to Reform Education (CORE) was mentioned in a recent EdSource article introducing CORE's new index that includes social and emotional/school culture and climate indicators. The half-dozen California districts in the... 

 

 

   [### Incorporating social-emotional learning into school accountability

 ](/news/incorporating-social-emotional-learning-school-accountability) October 18, 2015 

 CEPR’s work on social emotional learning has been included in an article by EdSource. Social and emotional learning (SEL) is the process through which children and adults develop the ability to manage their emotions, achieve goals, show empathy, build... 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

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 See also:- [ Project ](/page-type/project)
- [ School Improvement & Redesign ](/focus-areas/school-improvement-and-redesign)
- [ Past ](/project-status/past)