Social Awareness scale

Social awareness is the ability to take the perspective of and empathize with others from diverse backgrounds and cultures, to understand social and ethical norms for behavior, and to recognize family, school, and community resources and supports. This scale by Transform Education is a self-reported student survey asks students to reflect on and assess their social awareness, and has been piloted and scaled in schools, most notably as part of the CORE Districts’ data measurement system in California.

Constructs Being Measured

Primary
Social awareness

How to Access and Cite

A subset of items are in the CORE Districts SEL tool.
To access the resource, visit https://www.transformingeducation.org/sel-assessment/

Outcome Families

Connectedness
Awareness

 

Programmatic Purpose-terms

Classroom-level data and feedback
Program-level monitoring and evaluation

Instrument Characteristics

Type of items

8 Likert type questions

Format
Self-report

Applicable Grade Levels-terms

Primary
Secondary
Post-secondary

Supporting Research

Adapted from AIR and CASEL (2013) Student self-report of social and emotional competencies.

Available Languages

Rationale

Points to Consider

For more guidance on measuring student learning and best practices in adapting measurement tools to your contexts, check out the Portal page on Monitoring and Evaluation. You can also contact Alvin Vista (Knowledge Lead, Student Outcomes) and Robbie Dean (Director of Research) for specific questions.