Social -Emotional Well-being Survey for adolescents

An assessment that is relevant, contextual and expressed in the language of the child

“The Social and Emotional Well-being scale is a reliable, valid, and culturally sensitive assessment carried out in collaboration with various organizations and government partnerships. This open-source tool can be used for tracking longitudinal trajectories of well-being, program evaluations, advancing studies to evidence-informed policy-making around social and emotional learning”.

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Web presence

2019

Established

150K

Children

1

Countries

Target group

Students basic

Updated

October 2023

Government -Leverage policy evaluation to improve evidence-informed policy making. NGOs and civil societies - Give feedback to stakeholders, inform programme strategy, and maximize. effectiveness Donors - Make better-informed decisions about funding allocation and support. Researchers - Advance the study of well-being, life skills, and social and emotional learning

About the innovation

Why did you create this innovation?

Assessing social and emotional well-being would enable decision makers to track the level of mental health, identify progress of policies and curriculum designed to enhance well-being and establish the efficacy and evidence for interventions. Unfortunately, there is no contextualized and focused assessment tools to measure social and emotional well-being.

What does your innovation look like in practice?

The Social and Emotional Well-being scale an outcome of the multi-phased, cross-cultural research focused on establishing strong psychometric properties with linguistic and cultural equivalence. This scale designed to focus on social, emotional, and personal aspects, has been standardized for the adolescent population and can be used to gather insights on the effectiveness of various SEL focused interventions and can be integrated as a monitoring and evaluation process for diverse government led SEL interventions as well. This open-source tool can be used by Government stakeholders, nongovernmental organizations, donors, researchers, and practitioners to explore the tool as its usability ranges from tracking longitudinal trajectories of well-being , program evaluations, advancing studies to evidence-informed policymaking around social and emotional learning”.

How has it been spreading?

The Social and Emotional Well-being scale is created to prepare the public school’s ecosystem as well as the teachers and students to promote social and emotion competencies into mainstream curriculum. It is currently used in partnership with four state governments in India and used by various organizations for their program evaluations. The tool is tested over 40,00 students, and available in English and multiple regional languages of India. Over 1,50,000 data points has been collected so far from various states on social and emotional well-being. This tool is used for evaluating the Happiness curriculum, a flagship social and emotional curriculum in India. The tool has been used for various need assessment programs to understand the feasibility of implementing Life skills curriculum.

If I want to try it, what should I do?

The Social and Emotional Well-being Assessment was developed as a collaborative action led by The Life Skills Collaborative , which is a collaboration of 18 organizations including donors and state governments. Anyone interested to explore the tool can submit the request form through the following link: https://lifeskillscollaborative.in/lsc_toolkit/lsc-social-and-emotional-well-being-tool/

Implementation steps

Define the purpose of SEL evaluation:

It is important to decide what you want to measure. Researchers typically, measure the following: 1. Process evaluation- This evaluates whether an intervention is being implemented as planned. 2. Impact evaluation- This evaluates whether an intervention is having the intended outcome. 3. Assessing diagnostic and screening- This evaluates the social-emotional competence of a child.

Design the timeline of measurement.

A common research practice is to conduct baseline and end-line assessments. Baseline assessment occurs before the intervention begins, providing a starting point for comparison. Endline assessment takes place after the intervention has been implemented. Alternatively, researchers can choose to collect data once as diagnostic assessments to understand the current level of social and emotional well-being status before designing the intervention.

Collect and analyse data.

Social and emotional well-being tool is a self-reporting tool. Data is collected from the participants. Analysis and Interpretation of the Data can be carried out using the scoring norm of the scale. Further analysis can be done to understand the influence of Age, gender, socioeconomic, and ethnic differences Social and emotional well-being. Total score ,dimension wise scoring and skill based scoring can be carried out based on the norms created for the scale .