SEAL Overview
The Social Emotional Assessment and Learning (SEAL) Programs website provides a single host for
accessing measures and information about the assessment of social and emotional development in
children and adolescents with the highlight of access to web-based administration. The goal of SEAL is
to become the premier, state-of-the-art resource for social and emotion learning (SEL) assessments for
schools, counselors, psychologists, social workers, and researchers.
SEAL provides an innovative web-based service for:
• On-demand usage, scoring, storage, and downloading of evidence-based SEL assessment tools; and
• Flexible creation of customized assessment batteries for measuring social and emotional skills in children and adolescents
Research Features
Real time, automatic, computerized data entry and storage on secured servers.
Ability to include psychometrically strong, web-based SEL measures.
Ability to create multiple user accounts, multiple studies, and multiple locations
Quick and easy online ordering options.
Password protected access to administrative and respondent data.
Web-based help menus are available throughout the administrative backend of the website to assist in creation of an assessment protocol and management of participant/client information
Customizable Administrative Features
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Customizable Administrative Features
Beyond offering an array of evidence-based assessment tools for social and emotional skills that can be adopted without modification, SEAL also allows users to have the ability to create fully customizable assessment tools and batteries. Users have a number of options available to them including:
• Psychometrically strong, standard SEAL Programs including the SIP-AP and CARE;
• Creation of custom items and response scales relevant to your own practice or research study;
• Control over order of presentation of stimuli and assessment items;
• Ability to integrate rich media into assessment items including video stimuli and audio narrations;
• Use of stock screen background images or ability to use custom background screens.
Web-Based Training Overview
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Examine the five cognitive mechanisms included in the Social Information Processing (SIP) conceptual framework
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Research on SIP skills deficits and their relation to children’s behavior problems
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Description of the development of the Social Information Processing Application (SIP-AP)
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Summary of the research findings on the reliability and validity of the SIP-AP measure from a norming study
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Training in how to administer and interpret the SIP-AP
Evidence Basis for Standard SEAL Programs
The Standard SEAL Programs including the SIP-AP and CARE are based on extensive research related to children’s social and emotional skills including the Social Information Processing (SIP; Crick & Dodge, 1994) model of how children process information in social situations and the Affective Social Competence (ASC; Halberstadt et al., 2001) model, which captures the development of emotional understanding, communication, and experience within relationships.
