Identifies strengths and challenges
Discover students’ strengths and challenges by triangulating views from student, teacher and parent/carer.
At a glance
- Age ranges
- 7–11 years
- 12-16 years
- Test duration
- Untimed
- Test format
- Paper
Measure students' ability to understand and express feelings and highlight areas for intervention.
Measure students’ ability to understand and express feelings and highlight areas for intervention.
Developed by psychologists, this assessment uses stakeholder checklists – for the student, parent/carer and teacher – to discover a student’s strengths and challenges in five sub-scales of emotional literacy and, where necessary, highlighting areas for intervention:
- self-awareness
- self-regulation
- motivation
- empathy
- social skills
Scores are provided for each of the sub-scales, as well as an overall emotional literacy score, with information about techniques to help you support students’ development, and specific activities to address each of the five sub-scales.
How can Emotional Literacy help you
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Simple scoring
Easy-to-administer checklists for students, parents and teachers provide scores for each of the emotional literacy sub-scales and an overall emotional literacy score.
Highlights areas for intervention
Identify areas for intervention across the five sub-scales of emotional literacy; self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy and social skills, with techniques and age-appropriate activities to support children’s development.
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FAQs
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What skills are assessed?
- Self-awareness
- Self-regulation
- Motivation
- Empathy
- Social skills
What is emotional literacy?
Emotional literacy is the term used to describe our ability to understand and express feelings. It means having the self-awareness to recognise your own feelings and to know how to regulate them. For children, it is particularly important to be able to express their feelings when it is beyond their capacity to control them.
What does the student checklist involve?
Scored in the same way as the student checklist, the teacher checklist produces a score for each of the emotional literacy sub-scales (self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy and social skills), as well as an overall emotional literacy score.
What does the parent checklist involve?
This checklist is mainly used for the parents of children receiving one-to-one or small group intervention. It produces a score for each of the emotional literacy sub-scales (self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy and social skills), as well as an overall emotional literacy score.