With Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4, the global education community promises that all children will have the chance to achieve essential holistic learning and development outcomes as a result of their education. This promise can only be upheld through investments in the most educationally marginalized children: The approximately 250 million children worldwide who are out of school and the millions more not learning in school; an issue further exacerbated by conflict and crisis (UNESCO, 2023). The United Nations (UN) estimates that by 2030, 300 million students will lack the basic numeracy and literacy skills essential for full participation in today’s world (United Nations, 2023).
While there has been growth in development and testing of learning assessments administered face-to-face, there is limited evidence for learning assessments administered remotely. There is an urgent need to develop and test such assessments as educators, officials and humanitarian actors in crisis-affected settings have consistently faced the challenge of how to assess children’s academic outcomes and social-emotional skills when lockdowns, school closures and other unexpected crises prevent the use of face-to-face assessment tools.
The ReAL Network, comprised of Save the Children, local academic partners, and a global consortium of thematic practitioners and researchers with psychometric expertise, contributed to the development of feasible, valid, reliable, and contextually appropriate measures for assessing foundational skill development of hard-to-reach children (e.g., children impacted by school closures, children not enrolled in school).
The ReAL tool is a first-of-its-kind remote assessment of learning developed to measure foundational skills of hard-to-reach children aged 5 to 14-years-old. It is intended to measure children’s foundational literacy, numeracy, and social and emotional learning (SEL) skills for program monitoring and evaluation purposes.
While there has been growth in development and testing of learning assessments administered face-to-face, there is limited evidence for learning assessments administered remotely. There is an urgent need to develop and test such assessments as educators, officials and humanitarian actors in crisis-affected settings have consistently faced the challenge of how to assess children’s academic outcomes and social-emotional skills when lockdowns, school closures and other unexpected crises prevent the use of face-to-face assessment tools.
The ReAL Network, comprised of Save the Children, local academic partners, and a global consortium of thematic practitioners and researchers with psychometric expertise, contributed to the development of feasible, valid, reliable, and contextually appropriate measures for assessing foundational skill development of hard-to-reach children (e.g., children impacted by school closures, children not enrolled in school).
The ReAL tool is a first-of-its-kind remote assessment of learning developed to measure foundational skills of hard-to-reach children aged 5 to 14-years-old. It is intended to measure children’s foundational literacy, numeracy, and social and emotional learning (SEL) skills for program monitoring and evaluation purposes.
ReAL Memorandum of Understanding
Please download & complete the MOU, then email it to [email protected]
ReAL Guidance Documents
ReAL High Access Administration Guidance
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ReAL Low Access Administration Guidance
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ReAL Caregiver Administration Guidance
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ReAL Publications
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