An assessment is only as good as the evidence behind it. Here is ours, in full.
Most assessment websites ask you to trust a badge. This page does the opposite. It sets out what each instrument measures, how the questions were written, who scores them, and what we have actually tested so far. Where something is published, we link it. Where validation is still underway, we say so in plain words rather than rounding up. If you are deciding whether to rely on a number we produce, read this first and hold us to every line of it.
Three words we use carefully on this page
You can read the method or the document yourself, today, and check our working.
The work is real and underway to a defined standard, and we will publish the result only when it is true. We do not show a figure before then.
We hold ourselves to this as policy, and we can show you our supporting working on request. It has not yet been independently verified on this site.
We would rather you found this page cautious than found it wrong.
Two instruments, two different questions
We run two distinct assessments, and it matters that they are not the same kind of thing.
The Knowledge Assessment measures what a caregiver understands about caring for children: child development, safety and supervision, hygiene and feeding, illness and first response, daily routines, and age-appropriate play. It is a competency check, scored against a defined answer key. There is a right answer, and we score against it.
The Psychometric Assessment does not test facts. It is a structured instrument across several defined sections that looks at patterns in how a person tends to think and behave in a caregiving context: temperament under stress, patience and emotional regulation, attentiveness, communication style, and responses to common caregiving situations. Each construct is defined before a single question is written, so every item maps back to a specific trait we intend to measure, not to a vague impression.
The psychometric report describes tendencies. It is not a verdict on a person’s worth, and it is not a label.
One construct, worked through
- Construct
- A named trait, defined before any item is written
- What it means
- A one-line definition that fixes exactly what the trait is, and is not, so two reviewers read it the same way
- How we ask it
- Two to three representative item stems, each written to elicit that trait in an everyday caregiving situation rather than to test reading
We are confirming the worked example and the defined construct names with our psychometrics lead, and will publish them here once locked. The full construct-to-item map is available to institutional buyers on request.
Published Constructs are defined and the map exists; the full construct-to-item map is available to institutional buyers on request.
Request the methodology pack and construct mapThe questions are written, not improvised
Every item starts from a defined construct. Items are drafted by a qualified author and reviewed against the trait they are meant to capture. We write in plain language on purpose: many caregivers in the UAE and the GCC do not speak English as a first language, and a question that is hard to read measures reading, not caregiving.
No item earns a place in the live instrument until it has been piloted. We look at how each question behaves in practice.
Does everyone read the item to mean the same thing.
Does it distinguish higher and lower scorers rather than catching everyone the same.
Items that behave oddly are revised or removed, and the change is recorded.
This is ordinary practice for a serious instrument. It is also the reason these assessments are not a quiz assembled in an afternoon.
Scored against a fixed standard, not an opinion
A result is only trustworthy if the same answer always earns the same score, no matter who took it or who paid for it.
Our scoring policy is one fixed key and one set of thresholds, for everyone. The Knowledge Assessment is scored against a defined answer key; the Psychometric Assessment is scored to a documented rubric. We print an assessment reference number on each report so the result can be traced back to us, and we keep the scoring logic out of the buyer’s hands.
What we will not do, for anyone:
- We never let an agency, an employer or a family change a result.
- We never move a threshold to suit a client.
- We never rank or recommend one caregiver over another for placement. We measure and report. We do not broker the hire.
We are paid to assess, not to place, and we have no financial stake in whether a caregiver passes. This independence is the whole point of an outside assessment. A placement agency vouching for its own roster has an obvious interest in the answer. We do not.
Read the full impartiality statement · Buying for a roster? See how central results work
Reliability: what we are testing, and what we will not claim yet
Reliability asks whether an instrument measures consistently. One common way to express it is Cronbach’s alpha, a figure between 0 and 1, where a higher value means the questions within a scale are measuring the same underlying thing in a stable way.
Here is where we are honest with you. Establishing a defensible alpha requires a real sample of caregivers who have completed the full assessment under live conditions. Until we reach that sample, we will not publish a reliability figure, because a number with too little behind it would be worse than no number at all.
So this is the one place on the page where we ask you to read a status, not a result.
Validation underway, to a defined target sample. When we reach the target and the analysis holds, we will publish the Cronbach’s alpha figure, its interpretation, and the full study on this page, and we will date it. Not before. The methodology paper is in preparation, not yet published.
Reliability is also only one part of validity, not the whole of it. A consistent instrument still has to measure the right things, which is why the constructs, the item development and the fairness checks matter just as much as a single coefficient.
We check that the assessment is fair, and we keep checking
A childcare assessment in this region is taken by people of many nationalities and first languages. An instrument that penalises someone for where they are from, rather than for how they would care for a child, is not just unfair. It is invalid.
Fairness is built into how we develop and review items, and adverse-impact analysis is part of our validation program. We are reviewing trait and item language for wording that could carry cultural assumptions, and we are analysing whether scores differ across groups in ways the construct does not justify.
When we find a problem, we revise or remove the item and we record the change. We treat this as continuous work rather than a one-time clearance, because the population taking the assessment keeps changing.
What the accreditation behind the result will certify
A unique assessment reference number appears on every report we issue today, so an employer, an agency or a family can confirm at a glance that the result can be traced back to us. The accreditation mark is held back until it is confirmed and we are licensed to display it.
We will only show the mark in the exact wording we are licensed to use, taken from the certificate itself, not paraphrased.
We also want to be precise about what accreditation will and will not mean. It will tell you the body and the instrument meet an independent standard. It will not, on its own, tell you a caregiver is right for your home. That is why we publish the method and the study, rather than asking you to trust a badge by itself.
Stated Independent accreditation is in progress with a UK body. We will name the body, the licensed mark text and the scope here once they are confirmed against the certificate, and the certificate is available for inspection on request.
In progress Local (KHDA) recognition is a goal we are working toward. We do not yet hold it, and nothing on this site should be read to imply we do.
What these results do, and do not, tell you
We want you to use these assessments well, which means being clear about their edges.
An assessment informs a decision. It does not guarantee a caregiver’s suitability or safety, and it is not a clinical diagnosis.
A score describes a caregiver’s knowledge and behavioural tendencies at the time they took the assessment. It cannot replace your own judgement, references, interviews and ordinary due diligence. The Psychometric Assessment is not a mental-health screen and not a personality verdict; it reports tendencies measured against a defined set of constructs, and nothing more.
Results also reflect how the assessment was taken. An unsupervised result is advisory, because we cannot fully verify who sat at the keyboard. For higher-stakes use, we recommend reading any single result in the context of everything else you know about the person.
How we handle the data, under UAE law
Psychometric results are sensitive personal data. We treat them that way, in line with the UAE Personal Data Protection Law (Federal Decree-Law 45 of 2021).
- Consent
- Granular, explicit consent is captured at the start of every assessment, before any question is answered.
- Where data is stored
- In v1 the assessment is delivered through a gated form, and some data is processed outside the UAE. We declare this plainly rather than hide it; the processor is named in our privacy notice.
- Retention
- Results are kept for a defined period and then deleted, unless you ask us to remove them sooner. The exact period is set out in our privacy notice.
- Your rights
- You can request access to, correction of, or deletion of your data, and you can withdraw consent.
- If you are the caregiver assessed
- Your result is your data. You can contact us directly to access, correct, or delete it, or to raise a concern, independently of the agency or family that bought your seat.
- For institutions
- We can put a data-processing agreement in place, and a UAE data-residency path is on our roadmap for enterprise and government buyers.
Read the full Privacy and PDPL notice · Contact our privacy lead
Institutional or government buyer? Request our data-processing agreement and residency roadmapIssued 12 June 2026
Certificate of Caregiver Assessment
Independent assessment · not a placement or training endorsement
This certifies that
Maryam D.
has completed the Child Caregiver Knowledge Assessment (CCKA™), administered under standardised conditions.
Contact us to confirm a certificate.
What you actually receive, and how to check it is real
The report is the product, so here is a redacted look at one before you ask for the full sample. Every report carries a unique assessment reference number you can verify.
- From assessment to traced result
- A completed assessment is scored and returned as a report and certificate, delivered to the buyer and, for agencies, collected centrally in the buyer portal.
- Verify a report
- Anyone holding a report can confirm its reference number is genuine by email at launch, with an online lookup to follow. A number that cannot be verified did not come from us.
Pilot partners are invited, and references are available under NDA on request. We do not publish client names or logos we have not earned the right to show.
See the full sample reportWe showed you the working. Now decide with your eyes open.
If you want the detail, ask for the methodology pack and look at a real, redacted sample report before you rely on a single score. If you are an agency, an institution or a government buyer assessing many, we can set you up with bulk seats, a central results portal, an invoice, and a data-processing agreement. If you are assessing one caregiver, you can start now.
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Independent. Independent accreditation in progress. One fixed key for everyone. Validation underway. Data handled in line with UAE PDPL.