Educator Assessment of Learners’ Soft Skills Ability (EALSA)

EDC developed the Educator Assessment of Learners’ Soft Skills Ability (EALSA), a formative soft skills assessment, for use with secondary and tertiary students in East and West Africa. The EALSA measures youth’s soft skills across four standards: Communication, Interpersonal Skills, Dependability, and Problem Solving/Critical Thinking. These soft skills standards were determined by subject matter experts to be the most important and useful for success in entry-level work, relatively achievable for youth to develop during their time as students, obtainable before beginning an entry-level position, and aligned with existing research on the skills linked to success in the workplace.