The Survey on Social and Emotional Skills (SSES) is a collaborative endeavour involving education systems in participating countries and subnational entities and the OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation.
The development of this report, prepared by the OECD Directorate for Education and Skills, was guided by Andreas Schleicher and Tia Loukkola and managed by Noémie Le Donné. The report was steered and overseen by Hannah Ulferts and authored by Gemma Coleman (Chapters 3 and 4), Catharina Gress-Wright (Chapter 3), Noémie Le Donné (Chapter 1) and Hannah Ulferts (Chapter 2 and front and backmatter), with statistical expertise and support from Vanessa Denis. The report was edited by Julie Harris. Special thanks are extended to those who also contributed to this report with their comments, suggestions and support: Heewoon Bae, Hannah Borhan, Jessica Bouton, Duncan Crawford, Ivona Feldmárová, Francesca Gottschalk, Nelson Hauck Filho, Rachel Linden, Adriano Linzarini, Thomas Radinger, Sasha Ramirez-Hughes, Carlos Henrique Sancineto da Silva Nunes, Della Shin, Felipe Valentini, Juan Wang and Mark Zander.
To support the technical implementation of the SSES, the OECD contracted an international contractor, 2E Estudios, Evaluaciones e Investigación S.L. (2E), led by Elena Govorova with statistical leadership by Elena de la Guía. Dorothee Behr, Clemens Lechner, Ricardo Primi and Christopher Soto were part of the expert group that guided the revision of the assessment and questionnaires.
The OECD would like to particularly thank the participating countries and subnational entities and partner foundations for their collaboration on this project and for their contributions and suggestions for this report.