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.

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Authors:

Education Development Center, Inc.

Services:

Implementation

Services:

Implementation

Media Type:

PDF

Resource Type:

Toolkit

Focus Area:

Education Workforce & SystemsOut-of-School TimeYouth & Workforce Development

Date:

2020

Region:

Africa

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