Due to its many desirable features, the ACT Tessera. Here the authors present the alignment between the ACT Tessera skills and the five core social and emotional learning competencies adopted by the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL). ACT Tessera is a comprehensive assessment system designed to measure five social and emotional skills. The ACT Tessera skills have been aligned to the Big Five previously (ACT, 2018). A key advantage of the Big Five framework is that it optimizes bandwidth and fidelity that is, it allows for the summary of a large amount of information while simultaneously allowing for some nuanced individual difference description. Researchers factor analyzed personal trait-related adjectives identified in the English language dictionary, and this ultimately led to five replicable factors. Due to its many desirable features, the ACT Tessera development team adopted the Big Five taxonomy, the dominant personality trait model, as the organizing framework.

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