WorkLinks Skills and Values Assessment (WLSVA)

The WorkLinks Skills and Values Assessment (WLSVA) Tool has been validated as a credible and reliable tool to measure individual- and group-level change over time among youth and young adults in soft skills, earning skills, and certain civic values.

The original WLSVA Tool was developed in English (World Learning, 2019). This tool comprised 61 questions that measured 11 soft skills (self-motivation, social skills, communication skills, work ethic/conscientiousness, goal setting, adaptability, thinking & planning skills, perseverance, planning, positive self-concept, and managing emotions), 2 earning skills (job search, with entrepreneurship, inadvertently excluded at the piloting stage), and 4 values’ constructs (social inclusion & justice, intercultural understanding & empathy, community & civic engagement, and sustainability—reflecting World Learning’s core institutional values, emphasized throughout World Learning programming).

The package of this tool comprises:

1. The measure
2. The evidence report
3. Training materials