The SEED Programme: Evaluation of an Intervention to Improve Social and Emotional Early Development

• In Event: Roundtable Session 9
  In Roundtable Session: Social Emotional Interventions in Elementary Schools

Abstract

This paper reports results of an intervention to improve social and emotional skills of elementary school age children. The programme is based on principles of social and emotional learning, teaching thinking skills and gamification.

The programme ran in in 16 schools in England and involved 1218 children. A quasi-experimental design was used to study the impact of the programme.

The Child Behaviour Scale, a measure of children’s aggressive, pro-social, or withdrawn behaviour; the SEED-AS, a measure of pupils’ personal and self-development, emotional literacy, empathy and tolerance, assertiveness and communication skills; and a peer nomination instrument were used to measure impact.

The treatment group showed improvement on all Child Behaviour Scales except aggression, and on all subscales of the SEED-AS measure.

Authors

• Daniel R. Muijs, University of Southampton

• Christopher Downey, University of Southampton

• Annie Brookman, University of London