Assessment

Social-Emotional Response and Information Scenarios (SERAIS) - Lebanon

Ready for purpose

Social-Emotional Response and Information Scenarios (SERAIS) is a scenario-based student assessment designed to measure a suite of social and emotional skills among elementary school-aged children. The measure introduces children to six hypothetical social situations, and prompts them to answer a series of questions asking what they would do in that situation in order to measure four constructs: hostile attribution bias, emotional orientation, emotional regulation, and interpersonal negotiation skills. It is intended to provide data for program evaluation purposes.

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Evidence Snapshot

Summary

Results of the testing indicated that SERAIS is ready for purpose with modest revisions if used in the same context. If used in a new context, the measure requires adaptation of the social situation scenarios and items and further testing. We note that versions of SERAIS have also been adapted & tested in Niger and Nigeria.

Where

Lebanon

Sample

3,661 Syrian children ages 5-16 enrolled in Lebanese formal schools

Measure Snapshot

For what?

Program evaluation

About what?

Social-emotional Skills

How?

Paper/Pencil format

Respondant

Enumerator/Data Collector

By what method?

Performance-based assessment

Resource Info

Published

16 October 2019

Published by

International Rescue Committee (IRC)

NYU Global TIES for Children

Authored by

Ha Yeon Kim & Carly Tubbs Dolan

Topic(s)

Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS)

Social and Emotional Learning

Geographic Focus

Lebanon

Use:

Program evaluation, Basic research

Resource Category:

Social-emotional Skills

Resources

All files (9.26 MB)

Arabic

English