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May 17, 2024
How Do Caregivers Develop Social and Emotional Skills With Their Children?
Caregivers play an important role in effective SEL interventions for their children. This study examines how caregivers work on SE skills with their children.
Apr 18, 2022
Knowns and Unknowns in Meeting the Needs of Students from Historically Underserved Populations
What does the research say on SEL and equity? The report shows how social and emotional skills are intertwined with meeting the needs of all students, and particularly those from historically underserved populations.
Mar 31, 2022
Examining the Relationship Between School Climate and ACT Composite Scores
The study presents descriptive and correlational results–more research is needed to understand the causal effects of school climate on ACT Composite scores.
Jan 05, 2024
Developing Culturally Relevant Math and Science Items
ACT developed items that attempted to represent unique aspects of cultures, raise awareness of social justice issues, promote cultural learning, be authentic and relatable, be comprehensible, and represent people in positive, nonstereotypical ways.
Sep 01, 2023
Examining the Relationship Between Social and Emotional Skills and ACT Composite Scores in Students With Disabilities
Examining the Relationship Between Social and Emotional Skills and ACT Composite Scores in Students With Disabilities
Mar 17, 2022
Examining the Relationship Between Social and Emotional Skills and ACT Composite Scores
This study examines the relationship between ACT® test scores and several social and emotional skills, such as Sustaining Effort and Maintaining Composure.
Aug 01, 2020
K-12 Teachers and Administrators Agree about the Importance of Social and Emotional Skills in Education
The purpose of this data byte is to share the results of part of the ACT® National Curriculum Survey®, which provide evidence that K-12 teachers and administrators overwhelmingly agree that social and emotional skills are important at school.
May 14, 2025
Essential Skill Development in Higher Education: Student and Staff Perspectives
This report measured the desirability of essential skill development curricula in colleges, students’ attitudes regarding skill development, and results from college personnel about the desirability of essential skill development in colleges.
Sep 23, 2022
Educators' Social and Emotional Skills and Indicators of School Climate Predict Burnout
This study examines the relationship between social and emotional (SE) skills, school climate, educator variables, and educator burnout.
Apr 28, 2022
How Do Social and Emotional Skills and School Climate Relate to College Readiness in English?
The purpose of the current study was to examine how SE skills and students’ perceptions of school climate relate to college readiness in English, as measured by the ACT® English test and ACT’s College Readiness Benchmark for English.
Sep 26, 2022
Examining the Efficacy of Career & College Clubs: Documenting Increases in Skills and Postsecondary Education Knowledge
This report explores how changes in the college readiness areas of social and emotional skills, knowledge of postsecondary education, and education intentions were related to growth in cumulative student grade point average (GPA).
Apr 28, 2022
How Do Social and Emotional Skills and School Climate Relate to College Readiness in STEM?
The purpose of the current study is to examine the relationship between SE skills and students’ perceptions of school climate with college readiness in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
Apr 18, 2025
Examining the Efficacy of Career & College Clubs
This report explores how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the learning and skill development of students who were enrolled in Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs and have used the Career & College Clubs curriculum.
Nov 24, 2021
Examining the Efficacy of Career & College Clubs: Initial Results and Implications for Practitioners
This report explores the longitudinal impact of GEAR UP and the CCC curriculum on student development in the following areas: social and emotional skills, knowledge of postsecondary education, and education intentions.