Sentences with phrase «rigorous social science evidence»

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Social and emotional learning, or SEL, refers to evidence - based practices informed by rigorous, systematic social science that underscore the way we understand, use, and manage emotions to Social and emotional learning, or SEL, refers to evidence - based practices informed by rigorous, systematic social science that underscore the way we understand, use, and manage emotions to social science that underscore the way we understand, use, and manage emotions to learn.

Importantly, states were required to spend at least three - quarters of the federal funds on home visiting models that met federal standards of evidence - based effectiveness.1 As many policy scholars have noted, that a national initiative brought the importance of evidence - based practice to the forefront of public policy is a triumph for social science and demonstrates the importance of rigorous program evaluation.2 With that triumph, however, comes a responsibility to ensure that the public's expectations for success of these programs are consistent with what researchers understand about the empirical evidence — will the same positive outcomes found in programs» randomized controlled trials emerge when those programs are taken to scale?