ArticleJournal of health, population, and nutrition2023
Establishing performance standards for child development: learnings from the ECDI2030.
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- Influence of Socio-Cultural, Economic and Environmental Factors on Child Development Following Development Screening of 2-5-Year-Old Children Using ECDI2030 in Two Districts of Rural West Bengal.Indian pediatrics · 2026Article
- Predictive and concurrent validity of caregiver reported early childhood development assessments: A prospective cohort study of Tanzanian children.PLOS global public health · 2026Article
- Home caregiving, early learning and the development of preschool-aged children in Vanuatu: A secondary analysis of 2023 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey data.PLOS global public health · 2026Article
- The Grenada Learning and Memory Scale: Psychometric features and normative data in Caribbean preschool children.Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS · 2024Article
- The influence of minimum dietary diversity on undernutrition among children aged 6-23 months in Ethiopia: a multilevel mixed-effect analysis based on 2019 Ethiopian mini demographic and health survey.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundStandards 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.
methodsTo 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 informed by representative population data collected in Mexico and the State of Palestine. The final calibrated age-specific performance cut-scores were applied to these data to estimate the proportion of children developmentally on track, disaggregated by background characteristics, including the child's sex and attendance to early childhood education.
resultsThrough a process of standard setting, we generated robust performance standards for the ECDI2030 by establishing five age-specific cut-scores to identify children as developmentally on track.
conclusionsThis paper demonstrated how the standard setting methodology, typically applied to measures in the health and education fields, could be applied to a measure of child development. By creating robust criterion-referenced standards, we have been able to ensure that the cut-scores related to age for the ECDI2030 are based on performance standards set by global experts in the ECD field for defining on and off track development.
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