2008 Unexpected Findings On The Impact Of Computerized Social-Emotional Learning
In four well-designed RCTs, with equal sized control groups, very low attrition rates and third party collection and analysis of data, unexpected findings were:
- Trends that students who used the computerized program without supplemental, adult-facilitated sessions had better behavioral outcomes than students with the adult supplement.
- Students with non-professionals for advisory period, plus self-directed use of the computer program, got better grades for personal and social responsibility than students with professional teachers, without the software, and data indicated trends toward higher academic grades and lower discipline referrals, as well.
- Students who had the self-directed, computerized SEL training in lieu of academic instruction, for two hours per week, got better grades than control students who had instruction in math and language arts during the same periods.
- Students who used the program had higher empathy scores, but control group peers in the same classrooms had higher scores on connectedness.
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