Social-Emotional Wellbeing Surveys
The Survey
Available for Pre-school – Year/Grade 12 students (ages 3- 18)
- Test at anytime throughout the year
- Approximately 30 minutes to complete
- Paper-based scannable booklet.
Can be administered to:
- All students in your school,
- Specific year levels
- Groups within year levels
- Specific students annually or bi-annually to show development over time.
- A random sample of the school population
- "Targeted" Students - Schools may elect to survey all students or select year levels or groups of students who can be targeted. One such example of a group to target might be 'at risk' students.
Students respond anonymously to a series of statements by indicating their level of agreement on a four point likert scale by choosing one of the four alternatives: strongly agree, agree, disagree, strongly disagree.
The social and emotional wellbeing surveys to be completed by Primary students in years 2 – 6 asks for students to make similar judgments about indicators of their own social and emotional well-being (e.g. “I lose my temper a lot.”). The survey to be completed by secondary students includes an additional set of questions that asks students to make judgments about aspects of their school, home and community that influence their emotional wellbeing, relationships with others, and school achievement (e.g. “I have a teacher who cares about me.”). The secondary form has been used sucessfully with students in year 5-6.
Survey form |
Colour |
Number of items |
Completed by: |
Early years
|
Pink |
50 |
Teacher/teachers aide (on behalf of student) |
Primary
|
Purple |
53 |
Student (may be read aloud by teacher) |
Secondary |
Green |
94 |
Student (includes perceptions of HOME, SCHOOL, COMMUNITY) |
Teacher Perceptions (optional)
|
Blue |
60 |
Teacher (on specific sampling of year 2-12 students)
|
Optional element: Teachers' survey
This survey provides data based on the teachers knowledge of a student’s emotional, social and behavioural characteristics. It measures teacher’s perceptions of their students’ social-emotional wellbeing as well as their social emotional competencies.
Each social and emotional well-being survey to be completed by teachers contains questions asking teachers to express their agreement or disagreement about different indicators of a student’s social and emotional well-being (e.g. “Student appears to be calm, not stressed.”)
