Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)
Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) covers key intrapersonal and interpersonal skills that children use in understanding their emotions, managing their behavior, and successfully navigating their relationships. The figure below illustrates the five SEL competencies - self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making described by the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL). The skills within these five competency areas are integral to a child's wellbeing in the home, school and community.
Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) covers key intrapersonal and interpersonal skills that children use in understanding their emotions, managing their behavior, and successfully navigating their relationships. The figure below illustrates the five SEL competencies - self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making described by the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL). The skills within these five competency areas are integral to a child's wellbeing in the home, school and community.
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Source: Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning. (2020). The CASEL guide to schoolwide SEL. https://casel.org
What is ISELA?
ISELA is facilitated by enumerators with children and assesses children’s self-concept, stress management, perseverance, empathy, use of social supports, and conflict resolution skills. It takes 30 minutes for an enumerator to assess an individual and scores are aggregated for average skill scores across the sample or population assessed.
- Self-Concept: Understanding of and ability to express personal preferences, feelings, thoughts, and abilities. It also refers to a child's growing capacity for independence and confidence in a range of daily activities. ISELA makes use of a drawing/imagination activity to assess this skill, attempting to understand whether the child can imagine a hopeful future and can realistic supports and barriers to reaching this future self.
- Stress Management: Personal skills and resources to reduce the impact of chronic stress and/or acute adversity. The task in ISELA asks children to describe strategies they use to control their levels of stress.
- Perseverance: In ISELA, we measure perseverance by asking children about whether they seek help to solve problems.
- Empathy: In ISELA, we measure empathy through contextual vignettes that ask children to interpret the emotions and intentions of peers.
- Use of Social Supports: ability to identify peers and adults who can support different leverage these networks when needed.
- Conflict Resolution: In ISELA we measure conflict resolution through contextual vignettes that ask children to describe their reactions to situations of peer conflict.
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ISELA PUBLICATIONS
International Social and Emotional Learning Assessment (ISELA) - Iraq
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Psychometric Properties of ISELA among Syrian Refugee Children in Kurdistan, Iraq
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