This is the iPad version of the social-emotional assets screening tool your school has licensed. There is no additional fee to extend your school license to this new platform.
Screen for Strengths - School Edition is a set of digital screening tools, designed to show gains in social-emotional competencies. These easy-to-use tools help identify areas ripe for personal growth and provide data to personalize intervention delivery. Screen for Strengths meets the needs of schools to provide objective quantifiable data about the development of non-academic often culturally contingent “intangible” assets.
The tools measure seven social-emotional attributes associated with resiliency, pro-social behavior and school success. The seven attributes are:
*Self-efficacy
*Impulse control
*Emotional regulation
*Assertiveness
*Empathy
*Connection to community
*Decision-making skills
Screen for Strengths was designed to:
*Aid adults in directing students to appropriate Tier 2 and Tier 3 interventions
*Provide a pre- to post-intervention measure of skill gains from a variety of interventions
*Enable schools to meet documentation requirements of funders and policy makers
*Reduce legal exposure due to subjective culturally biased assessment
Although inspired by and parallel to validated scales in the public domain, these are not refined psychological assessment tools. Indeed if they were, they could not be used with children without parental consent. Rather they are more like foot-size measuring devices found in most shoe stores. The measurements they offer allow most people, most of the time, to get a good sense of what interventions would be the best fit for them.