by Svetlana | Feb 25, 2019 | Blog, ECD News, Innovation Edge
An article on the development and use of one of our investments, the Early Learning Outcomes Measure (ELOM) has been published in a peer review journal – Child: Care, Health & Development (2019). ELOM is a rigorously standardised, culturally fair and simple to...
by Svetlana | Aug 21, 2017 | Blog, ECD News, Innovation Edge
The ELOM (Early Learning Outcomes Measure) – South Africa’s first population level pre-school child assessment tool, which is funded by Ilifa Labantwana’s sister organisation the Innovation Edge – was started in 2015. Over a two year period the project...
by Satsiri Winberg | Feb 13, 2017 | Blog, ECD News
In 2015, Ilifa Labantwana funded, through Innovation Edge, the development of an Early Learning Outcomes Measure for South Africa. The measure – quickly dubbed the ELOM – was intended to provide all types of early learning programmes with a psychometric...
by Satsiri Winberg | Sep 21, 2016 | Blog, ECD News
Research indicates that while children from better-off homes make good progress following Grade R, children from poor households do not, and the gap between these two groups widens with age. Quality preschool programmes enable poor children to be ready to benefit from...
