• 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.

2007 Effect of Ripple Effects Training Software on Resiliency Assets
by Bo De Long-Cotty, West Ed, Oakland CA. The results from the study showed that Ripple Effects had a significant, positive impact on resiliency assets in the areas of empathy and problem-solving after 10 - 12 contact hours. In addition, students who used the program showed higher (but not statistically significant) gains than control students in self-management, self-efficacy, and sense of purpose.  The additional finding that control students showed significantly higher gains than treatment students on connectedness was an unexpected finding.

2003 NIDA-funded studies show improvement in student achievement, attitudes More

2001-2002 Eastern Kentucky University study shows positive effects on violence
Key findings: This study looked at the level of violence in three high schools and tested the effects of universal and targeted strategies to reduce this violence. Student reports of perpetration at the intervention school were significantly lower than the combined scores at the control school. Students, teachers, and administrators reported improved awareness, knowledge, and skills to implement violence prevention programs.

2000 research shows reduced aggression and improved educational outcomes Researchers from Columbia University and New York University, working in a New York public school setting, demonstrated that Ripple Effects social learning software, Relate, changed teen behavior in positive ways (reduced aggressive acts by 32%; increased prosocial acts by 77%) and that those changes were correlated with improvements in educational outcomes (62% decrease in summer school referrals). More

1999 study shows students learn assertiveness from Ripple Effects software
A San Francisco pilot study showed that adolescents who used Ripple Effects for Teens, a computer-based social skill training program, showed significant, positive gains in assertiveness...More

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