Abstract— With this work we intend to present a research developed in the North of Portugal, in the field of Information Technologies in Education and to diagnose, understand and quantify personal, emotional and social skills from students in third cycle and secondary level schools. To do so, we will study the metric qualities of the Emotional Quotient Inventory Youth Version (EQ-i: YV) by Bar-On and Parker, we will evaluate and analyze Social and Emotional Intelligence (SEI) differences as a function of differential variables. Our research has also the goal of generating scientific knowledge suitable for teachers, giving them the chance to learn how to deal with school conflicts, resorting to student’s social and emotional skills while having the support of new technologies, motivating instruments for youth in general.

Index Terms— Education, information technologies in education, social and emotional intelligence, social and emotional skills.

Álvaro Rocha is with the Europeia University & LIACC, University of Porto (e-mail: amrrocha@gmail.com).
Vitor Santos is with the Lusófona University (e-mail: vitorui@gmail.com).

Cite: Álvaro Rocha and Vitor Santos, " The Influence of Information and Communication Technologies on the Development of Social and Emotional Intelligence in a School Context," International Journal of e-Education, e-Business, e-Management and e-Learning vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 135-137, 2014.