The Life Skills Assessment Scale: Measuring life skills of disadvantaged children in the developing world
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About the Event
Life Skills Assessment Scale is a simple, quick, yet reliable and valid, measure of the life skills of disadvantaged and developmentally different children and young people in the developing world. This webinar session will discuss the construction and validation of the life skills assessment scale and how life skills can be used as an effective measure of evaluations. The second half of the webinar will address the normative meaning of Lifeskills assessments in the sphere of education and Social, and Emotional Learning.
Speakers
| Name | Title | Biography |
|---|---|---|
| Suchetha Bhat | CEO | Suchetha joined Dream a Dream in 2010 and has been instrumental in scaling the impact of the organization while designing programs using the process of ‘Arc of Transformation’. Her strengths include understanding child-adversity, organization culture building, and impact asses |
| Vishal Talreja | Co Founder | Vishal co-founded Dream a Dream (www.dreamadream.org) along with 11 others. Vishal is an Ashoka Fellow (www.ashoka.org), an Eisenhower Fellow (https://www.efworld.org/) and a Board Member at PYE Global (www.pyeglobal.org). He has previously being a Founder Director of Unltd India |
| Sreehari Ravindranath | Associate Director | Sreehari is the Head of Research and impacts at Dream a Dream specialized in the area of measurement and evaluations of educational programs. His research interests include thriving in adversity and early childhood adversity |