For intervention to be meaningful, a comprehensive holistic multi-disciplinary approach to assessment is a must. The current trend in the private and government services (the Schools Psychological Services) is still set on one specialist assessment. This approach only understands the learner from a biased perspective firmly rooted in the specialist area. World standard approaches assessment from a holistic approach that involves a multi disciplinary team.
Baobab seeks to work with institutions to design locally relevant assessment batteries. Wide debate points out that there are inherent biases in the tests batteries that are currently in use in Zimbabwe and Africa, generally.