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PLATO’s Current Research on Cognitive and Social/Emotional Skills
The main goal of this study was to evaluate for the first time the impact of an easy-to-use and not time-consuming dialogue-based classroom intervention (a) on preschool children’s understanding of both simple and complex components of emotions and (b) on the range of individual differences in children’s understanding of emotions.
National Humanities Alliance (Document the Impact)
A coalition of organizations dedicated to advancing humanities education, research, preservation, and public programs. NHA offers a toolkit for documenting the impact of humanities programs, as well as case studies, sample surveys, and best practices.
National Center for Educational Evaluation and Regional Assistance
This guide offers a five-step process to design effective research-based questionnaires that can be used to survey students, teachers, or parents. It also lists resources on sample selection, questionnaire administration, and data collection, analysis, and presentation.
Educating for Intellectual Virtues
This website offers a comprehensive guide to teaching for intellectual virtues in various educational settings and levels, based on the book Deep in Thought by Jason Baehr. It also provides a host of resources, such as videos, articles, case studies, and toolkits, to help educators design, implement, and evaluate their own philosophy education programs that aim to foster intellectual virtues among students and teachers.
NICD Research Network
Research is a crucial part of the mission of the National Institute for Civil Discourse. The organization’s research staff and research network support scholars throughout the country in their research and teaching on civics-related educational activities.
Project Zero
Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education has compiled resources related to assessment, evaluation, and documentation of learning in and through the arts. They provide resources for documenting learning processes and outcomes in ways that can inform one’s pedagogy.
Civic Engagement in Our Democracy
A product of the Democracy Knowledge Project, this toolkit provides assessment opportunities throughout the curriculum to identify student development of conceptual understandings, civic knowledge, civic skills, and commitment to shared civic values.
Survey Resources
If you are interested in measuring the outcomes or impact of your philosophy education programs, you may want to use some measures that have been developed and validated by researchers in psychology, education, and philosophy. There are many options. Here are some examples:
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