Professional Education 7 Practice Test

SEL competencies support academic achievement by helping students stay focused, collaborate with others, and persist through challenges. When students improve focus, they can follow instructions, stay on task, and learn more efficiently. Collaboration helps with communication, teamwork, and building understanding through shared effort. Resilience enables students to recover from mistakes and keep trying, which maintains progress over time. The option describing decreases in self-regulation does not fit because self-regulation is a core skill that supports task engagement and learning; reducing it would hinder attention, behavior management, and ultimately academic performance.