Establishing performance standards for child development: learnings from the ECDI2030.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Standards of early childhood development (ECD) are needed to determine whether children living in different contexts are developmentally on track. The Early Childhood Development Index 2030 (ECDI2030) is a population-level measure intended to be used in household surveys to collect globally comparable data on one of the indicators chosen to monitor progress toward target 4.2 of the Sustainable Development Goals: The proportion of children aged 24-59 months who are developmentally on track in health, learning and psychosocial well-being.

Methods

To define performance cut-scores for the ECDI2030 we followed a criterion-referenced standard setting exercise using the modified Angoff method. The exercise gauged the expectations from 15 global experts in ECD and was inf

SUBMITTER: Petrowski N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10717755 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature