OECD Survey on Social and Emotional Skills.
SSES
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.
- Provisionally grouped under
- 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.
- 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
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