SEL / Wellness Mapping | Assessment Integration

Note: Our current pilot client does not use an SEL assessment. The table below spells out in detail how tiering will work for customers who use RethinkEd’s SEL/wellness student self-assessment. As we sign on more customers who use other SEL/wellness assessments, we will add how to map assessment results to tiers accordingly.

For reference: Spreadsheet that gives mapping of SEL assessment categories of scores to tiers: sel_tier_category_score_to_tier_mapping.xlsx**

**Tara will be adding to the SEL assessments that are covered in this spreadsheet.

Important note: Some students will be missing SEL data, so we should have a missing data category for SEL assessment scores and for SEL tiers.

Similar to the logic behind the tier recommendations for academic assessments, RethinkEd wants to leverage the work of the makers of wellness assessments (sometimes referred to as social-emotional learning assessments) when determining the level of support students need. For wellness assessments that provide categories of scores like RethinkEd does, the recommended tiers will be based on them. Typically for assessments that provide categories scores, the scoring reflects how well students are faring on wellness compared to peers. For example, RethinkEd’s wellness measure has scores of 1 to 5 that reflect percentiles according to grade level bands (e.g., grades 3 through 5, grades 6 through 8). A score of 1 corresponds to the 10^th percentile and lower (labeled as “very low”), and a score of 2 corresponds to the 11^th to 30^th percentile (labeled as “low”; ERB 2019). Such approaches to scoring provide strong indication of how to recommend students for tiered interventions.

Although some wellness measures have scores offering comparisons that group students according to their ages or grade levels, some do not, opting instead to provide an overall score for students regardless of their age or grade level (e.g., SAIL Colab, 2020). We therefore use more general language when explaining our approach to recommending tiers below, omitting references to grade-level performance, than we do when explaining tier recommendations for academic assessments. A general guide to how we determine tier recommendations is:

·         Tier 3: score category indicating that the student is much lower than average

·         Tier 2: score category indicating that the student is lower than average

·         Tier 1: score category indicating the student is about average or above average

To make this general guide more concrete, the table below gives the mapping of RethinkEd score bands to recommended tiers.

• We will be using the Student’s Self-Assessment Data as the basis for suggested Tier levels.

• Self- Assessment data is entered twice a year, meaning that tiers would happy separately in the fall and in the spring of each academic year.

• See SEL | Student View | MTSS Dashboard Report for more information on how we are envisioning we will identify season across wellness assessment makers.

Table Mapping of RethinkEd Wellness Scores to Default Recommended Tiers for MTSS (see note below about changes to default)

Important note: Both in the above and when a user changes from the default mapping for tiers, the at risk indicator (such as a down arrow) will apply when the student has the minimum score or the minimum score +1 for tier 1 or tier 2. The approaching indicator (such as an up arrow) will apply when the student has the maximum score or the maximum score -1 for tier 2 or tier 3.