Examining a path to improved SEL skills
A study conducted by Neil Humphrey and colleagues, published in Public Health Research, reports on the findings of a randomized controlled trial of the social and emotional learning intervention, Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies (PATHS).
 
PATHS aims to promote children's social skills via a taught curriculum, which is delivered by the class teacher. A total of 5,218 children in Years 3-5 (ages 7-9) from 45 primary schools in Greater Manchester (England) participated in the trial. Schools were randomly allocated to deliver PATHS for two years or to continue as normal.
 
The findings of the study suggest that the impact of PATHS was modest and limited. Immediately after the intervention, there was tentative evidence that PATHS made a small improvement on children's social skills (effect size = +0.09) as assessed by the Social Skills Improvement System. A small improvement in children's psychological well-being (effect size = +0.07) was also found immediately after the intervention. However, there were no differences between children from PATHS and control schools for any outcomes at the 12- or 24-month post-intervention follow-ups.

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