Assessment of Life Skills and Values in East Africa

Proficiency Levels of Adolescents in Life Skills and Values

The Action of Life Skills and Values in East Africa (ALiVE) is a collaborative initiative which aims to ensure that learners in East Africa are equipped with life skills and values, to support learning, working, and living in the context of the 21st century. Systems of education in the region are increasingly shifting to competency-based curriculum that calls for holistic education. Critical to this is the embodiment of values and life skills or core competencies that call for shifts in classroom practices including pedagogies and assessments to nurture a holistic learner.

Thus, the first phase of ALIVE encompassed a learning journey that culminated in the development of assessment tools. This included three tools to assess three life skills (problem-solving, self-awareness and collaboration) and one value (respect). The assessment tools were developed through a rigorous collaborative process and applied at household level to adolescents aged between 13 and17 years in Kenya, Uganda and both mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar.

This documentation contains datasets from the three countries and on the four areas of assessment. In addition, it includes household level data from the participating households, foundational numeracy, and literacy as well as digital skills.

The survey reached over 45,000 adolescents in 35,720 households in the three countries. The study has had several research products including resources documenting the process, technical reports, journal publications and a book.