OECD Survey on Social and Emotional Skills

The OECD Survey on Social and Emotional Skills is an international survey that identifies and assesses the conditions and practices that foster or hinder the development of social and emotional skills for 10- and 15-year-old students.

About

Learn more about the Survey on Social and Emotional Skills (SSES) and the following aspects:

• the purpose of the SSES

• what the SSES assesses

• the assessment of social and emotional skills

• the types of instruments

• the contextual information collected

• the sample design

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International report

Read the international report Beyond Academic Learning: First results from the Survey on Social and Emotional Skills.

This report presents the first results from the Survey on Social and Emotional Skills, describing students' social and emotional skills and how they relate to individual, family, and school characteristics.

It also examines broader policy and socio-economic contexts related to these skills, and sheds light on ways to help education leaders and policy makers monitor and foster students’ social and emotional skills.

Latest publication

Read the new report Schools as hubs for social and emotional learning: Are schools and teachers ready?

Schools are perfect hubs for social and emotional learning, but are they ready for this task? To address this question, this Spotlight reports previously unpublished findings from the Survey on Social and Emotional Skills and discusses their implications for education policy and practice.

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Data

You can download the data from the first round of the SSES:

• questionnaires administered to participants

• data from students, parents, teachers and principals

• codebooks for all the questionnaires

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