Positive Attitude Upper Middle School social and emotional learning program: influences of implementation quality on program outcome.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

There is an increased call for studies analyzing how implementation quality influences Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) program effectiveness.

Methods

The current dissemination study analyzed the effectiveness of the Positive Attitude Upper Middle School SEL program on a Portuguese nationwide sample composed of 813 middle school students (7th and 8th grade; 51.7% boys; M_age = 12.41, S.D. = 1.06), from 36 classrooms (M_classroom = 22.58; S.D. = 2.86), distributed between the control group (179 students), and three intervention groups (643 students) that reflected low, middle, and high implementer experience (respectively, Gulbenkian Academies of Knowledge, Positive Attitude Cadaval and Positive Attitude Torres V

SUBMITTER: Coelho VA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10229836 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature