Components of social-emotional learning that correlate to student-teacher relationships

Estacio, Renato Nardo The United States has an interest in social and emotional health and welfare at the national level. While organizations promote the study and implementation of social-emotional learning, prior research has indicated a need to train teachers on social-emotional learning, and research has been scarce (Chamizo-Nieto et al., 2021; Chen, 2021; Schiepe-Tiska et al., 2021; Stein, 2020). Furthermore, the correlations of SEL components to student-teacher relationships from the student perspective has not been studied. This can have an effect on how we interpret data and use aspects of social-emotional learning. The research question for this study was: Do components of social-emotional learning correlate to student-teacher relationships? To study the correlations between student-teacher relationships and social-emotional learning, this study was quantitative and combined questions from Panorama Education that related to social-emotional learning from Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) and student-teacher relationships from Ang et al., (2020) to create a survey. The survey was delivered to high school students in grades 9 - 12 in 117 different zip codes across the United States. The survey results were analyzed using Bivariate Pearson Correlation - correlating the individual components of social-emotional learning and student-teacher relationships. Based on the correlations, each component of SEL shows a correlation to student-teacher relationships. The individual components of Responsible Decision-Making (correlation: 0.319) and Relationship Skills (correlation: 0.316) both show a moderate and positive correlation. The three components of social-emotional learning (Self-Management, Social Awareness, and Self-Awareness) show a weak correlation. This impacts how we operationalize social-emotional learning and which components we focus on when implementing SEL into classroom situations.

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Alverno College

Year dc:date

2024

Author dc:creator

• Estacio, Renato Nardo

• Social learning
• Emotional intelligence--Study and teaching
• Teacher-student relationships

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English

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https://alverno.omeka.net/items/show/956

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