OECD Survey on Social and Emotional Skills.

SSES

What it measures

15 social and emotional skills in five Big-Five-aligned domains - task performance (persistence, responsibility, self-control, achievement motivation), emotional regulation (stress resistance, emotional control, optimism), collaboration (empathy, trust, cooperation), open-mindedness (curiosity, creativity, tolerance) and engaging with others (sociability, assertiveness, energy) - plus compound skills and student, parent, teacher and principal context questionnaires.

Length and format

Student assessment covering 15 skills (approx 8 items per skill) plus student, parent, teacher and principal context questionnaires. 5-pt Likert agreement items across the student, parent and teacher forms (self-report questionnaire plus informant/observer report (parent and teacher forms))

Language versions

Fielded in the national languages of every participating site under the OECD translation and adaptation protocol.

Normative data

No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.

Licence

mixed

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Reference

OECD (2024). Social and Emotional Skills for Better Lives: Findings from the OECD Survey on Social and Emotional Skills 2023. OECD Publishing, Paris. https://www.oecd.org/en/about/programmes/oecd-survey-on-social-and-emotional-skills.html

https://www.oecd.org/en/about/programmes/oecd-survey-on-social-and-emotional-skills.html