In the article Measures of Social and Emotional Skills for Children and Young People: A Systematic Review, the authors are trying to see the different skills that children and young people have using a systematic review. The authors describe the different social and emotional skills, which could be seen as a combination of social and emotional intelligence, emotional literacy, and social and emotional competence. The authors then began to set up the systematic review process, which contained six stages. Stage one and two relate to the identification of different measures, which could be terms or key words that have to do with social or emotional skills. Stage three resulted in reading a specific abstract and then creating a inclusion and exclusion criteria based off what the authors could use. Stages four and five resulted in the finding of more articles and filtering them out to only use the most needed material. The last stage, stage six, is the final examination of all the final measures. There were some limitations to the systematic process, with one limitation being that there are many different interpretations to social and emotional skills, so agreeing of a common definition can be difficult. However, the most important part of the study is finding the precise keywords and the precise question to get the specific results needed for the study. This article shows many emotional and social skills that could be relevant to looking at graduation rate, as some skills could be linked to success in school.

Humphrey, Neil, Afroditi Kalambouka, Michael Wigelsworth, Ann Lendrum, Jessica Deighton, and Uganda Wolpert. “Measures of Social and Emotional Skills for Children and Young People: A Systematic Review.” Educational and Psychological Measurement Volume 71 no. 4 (2011):617-637.