Educator Assessment of Learners’ Soft Skills Ability (EALSA)
The Educator Assessment of Learners’ Soft Skills Ability (EALSA) tool is a soft skills formative assessment that provides education officials, teachers, and trainers with assessment data to improve outcomes around soft skills for both in-school and out-of-school youth. The measure assesses the following constructs: communication, interpersonal skills, dependability, and problem solving/critical thinking.
For more information, please contact Jasmina Josic at jjosic@edc.org.
Disclaimer: This tool was not tested in an EiE context. The Measurement Library Reference Group members are including the measure as it shows promise for use in EiE contexts with careful adaptation.
Evidence Snapshot
Summary
EASLA has acceptable internal reliability, but very limited validity as presented in the evidence report. It was not tested in an EiE context.
Where
Rwanda
Sample
2,221 (Rwanda: 605; Uganda: 557; Tanzania: 546; Senegal: 513)
Measure Snapshot
For what?
Commentaires informatifs
About what?
Aptitudes Socio-émotionnelles
How?
Paper/pencil format; or offline device
Respondant
Youth
By what method?
Survey