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ASSESSMENTS

Life skills are important to empower children and young adults to prepare for their future. They are also an integral part of ensuring their wellbeing. Assessing life skills would enable decision makers and practitioners to track the level of life skills proficiency, identify progress of policies and curriculum designed to enhance life skills and establish the efficacy and evidence of potentially useful interventions. However, one of the challenges in developing life skills assessments is the lack of contextualised and focused assessment tools.

 

As part of Life Skills Collaborative’s mandate, we are committed to develop robust, scientific and contextual tools to assess life skills. These tools are designed to be robust and scientifically accurate. They are developed in a collaborative model and adapted to the local context and made available as public goods. LSC has created, established, and disseminated an assessments repository that will help evaluate the overall preparedness of the public school ecosystem as well as the teachers and students, to help integrate life skills education into mainstream curriculum.

 

PRINCIPLES UNDERPINNING THE APPROACH TO ASSESSMENTS

The overarching principles adhered to in the design and development of the four LSC Assessment tools are:

  • Assessment tools are designed for the public education system and are being designed and built as system level assessment tools
  • Assessment tools will not be used to prioritise / de-priortise specific life skills
  • Assessment tools will be validated holistically by diverse stakeholders to ensure its rigour, relevance and effectiveness
  • To ensure consistency across Assessment tools, the Assessment tools will be
    aligned to the LSC India Glossary for life skills
  • Assessments are designed for large scale adoption and hence will be made available through creative commons to relevant stakeholders

DEVELOPING TOOLS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH STATE GOVERNMENTS

LSC has partnered with state governments across Maharashtra, Mizoram, Rajasthan, and Uttarakhand to contextualise life skill assessment tools for the System, Teachers, and Adolescents. Multiple workshops were conducted across the four states and inputs gathered from 80+ government experts that have helped us validate and contextualise the Assessment Tools.

LSC has partnered with these state governments to build and pilot the LSC Assessment tools with over 40,000 students, 1,000 teachers, and 150 State government officials. The tools will be scaled up in these states in the languages of Hindi, Marathi, and Mizo.

  • Assessment tools are designed for the public education system and are being designed and built as system level assessment tools
  • LSC ASSESSMENT TOOLKIT

    The LSC Assessment Toolkit consists of tools for the System, Teachers, and Adolescents (11 to 18yrs). To gain a deeper understanding of each of these tools, their development process, how they can be administered, what life skills are being assessed etc. please click the following

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