WAY: A Holistic Social-Emotional Curriculum Framework Developed via Delphi Study

Türkiye-based experts developed a consensus-based curriculum framework for holistic education. The final framework comprises 312 learning outcomes organized into 84 units under 13 themes, including self-awareness, empathy, and technology literacy. It was created by Melih Dikmen using a three-round Delphi technique involving 214 interdisciplinary experts.

Use Cases

• Designing integrated curriculum units based on the 13 identified themes, such as arts and creativity or nature and ecological awareness.
• Benchmarking existing educational programs against the 312 consensus-based learning outcomes.
• Developing assessment tools for social-emotional competencies like self-management and empathy.
• Researching the integration of future-oriented skills like critical thinking and AI literacy into standard curricula.

Strengths

• Framework is the result of a structured consensus process with high panel retention, reaching 80% in the final round.
• Credibility is supported by quantitative indicators, including an authority coefficient of approximately 0.76–0.81 and a Kendall’s coefficient of concordance increasing to 0.83.
• The framework is explicitly grounded in multiple established educational perspectives, including holistic education and CASEL’s competency framework.

Limitations

• The dataset is a 20.5 KB DOCX document describing the framework; it does not contain the raw survey data or a structured data table of outcomes.
• Practical applicability and educational value are noted as requiring future implementation studies.
• The geographic scope of the expert panel is limited to Türkiye, which may affect generalizability.

Provenance

Source

Melih Dikmen via figshare

Collection Method

Developed using a three-round Delphi design with an interdisciplinary expert panel.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-11 14:16:47

Geography

Türkiye