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ELOM 4&5 Years Assessment Tool – Technical Manual (4th Edition)
2025
The 4th edition of the ELOM 4&5 Technical Manual reflects updated naming, introduces new 6-month age band standards, and presents new evidence of predictive validity, showing how ELOM 4&5 results link to later learning outcomes.

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Evaluation Case Study: Meso-Level Research and Evaluation: How Programme Evaluations Can Drive Strategic Change in the Early Childhood Development Ecosystem
2025
This case study examines how ELOM-integrated programme evaluations have strategically contributed to South Africa’s early learning ecosystem. It documents not only the results, but also the learning process: how programme teams,, and evaluators worked together to interpret ELOM evidence.

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Insights Brief: Re-introducing the ELOM 4&5 Targeting Tool
2025
A five-item rapid assessment tool derived from the ELOM 4&5 Assessment, designed to identify children falling far behind in development who need targeted support, administered in just 15 minutes.

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Insights Brief: Assessing Fairly: Home Language vs. Familiar Language in Early Learning Outcome Measures
2025
This brief examines how assessing a child in their home language compared to a familiar language affects performance outcomes on the ELOM 4&5 Assessment Tool. It highlights where language mismatches in assessment can underestimate a child’s developmental ability.

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Synopsis of the Standardisation and Norms for the ELOM-R (v1) Language and Mathematics Assessments
2025
This synopsis summarises key content from Technical Manuals 2 and 3 on reference tables and performance bands for interpreting ELOM-R scores. It supports clear, consistent reporting of whether children are “On Track”, “Falling Behind”, or “Falling Far Behind” in readiness for Grade 1 and beyond.

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ELOM-R (v1) Technical Manual 3: Mathematics Assessment
2025
This technical manual details the design and validation of the ELOM-R Mathematics Assessment, which measures early numeracy skills that lay the foundation for later success in mathematics and problem-solving.

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ELOM-R (v1) Technical Manual 2: Language Assessment
2025
This technical manual provides input into the comprehensive psychometric analyses demonstrating scale reliability, measurement equivalence, and absence of bias across eight South African languages for the ELOM-R Language Assessment.

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ELOM-R (v1) Technical Manual 1: The Development of the ELOM-R Language and Mathematics Assessments
2025
This technical manual provides the full development story behind the ELOM-R assessment measures. It details the rigorous development process, including cross-language translation procedures, establishment of measurement invariance, and pilot study findings used to refine assessment items.

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Unlocking the Power of Warm, Interactive Conversations in Early Childhood Education
2025
This Insights Lab brief, part of our Early Learning Positive Deviance Initiative, explores how warm, interactive conversation can help close the early learning gap.

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MICROCHANGE AT SCALE: USING DATA TO IMPROVE EARLY LEARNING
2025
Can small programme adjustments – backed by strong data – improve early learning outcomes for young children? They can. This case-based report demonstrates how, with practical examples of microchange in action.

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Do the benefits fade out or not? Understanding influences on short and long-term effects of preschool programmes
2025
This Insight Brief, authored by Professor Andrew Dawes, investigates what makes early learning benefits last and what causes fadeout.

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How-To Guide: Understand the ELOM Standards
2025
This How-To Guide, developed and published by DataDrive2030, explains the standards of the ELOM suite of early learning measurement tools.

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The ELOM-R tools: Assessing children’s readiness to learn in Grade 1
2025
This document outlines the intended use of the ELOM-R tools, their composition, and the outcomes of the psychometric analysis, standardisation, and norming process.

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Insight Brief: Quality Counts – Exploring the Quality of Early Learning Programmes in South Africa
2024
The aim of this insight brief is to explore the data collected to date to better understand the quality of ELPs in South Africa and the relationship with child outcomes.

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