Test – retest reliability and concurrent validity of the South African Early Learning Outcomes Measure

United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Target 4.2. states that by 2030 countries should ‘ensure that all girls and boys have access to quality early childhood development, care and pre-primary education so that they are ready for primary education’ (United Nations n.d.). A key requirement of efforts to assess this outcome is the availability of reliable and valid population-level instruments suitable for children from a wide range of ethnolinguistic backgrounds, which can be used to track country attainment of SDG Goal 4.2. The Early Learning Outcomes Measure (ELOM) was developed to address the need for a locally validated, culturally fair and standardised instrument and has been used in studies of early learning programme outcomes.