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. 

This tool is part of the Measurement Library. Learn more about the olive tree stages in our Measure Review Criteria. If you'd like to select and adapt a measure, read our Measure Guidance.