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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
Establishing performance standards for child development: learnings from the ECDI2030
Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, Volume 42, No. 1, Article 140, Year 2023
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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 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. Results: Through 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. Conclusions: This 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. © 2023, The Author(s).
Authors & Co-Authors
Gladstone, Melissa J.
United Kingdom, Liverpool
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Donald, Kirsten A.
South Africa, Cape Town
University of Cape Town
van den Heuvel, Meta
Canada, Toronto
Hospital for Sick Children University of Toronto
Kandawasvika, Gwendoline Quintoline
Zimbabwe, Harare
University of Zimbabwe
Maqbool, Shazia
Pakistan, Lahore
The Children’s Hospital and Institute of Child Health
Tofail, Fahmida
Bangladesh, Dhaka
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh
Zeinoun, Pia
Unknown Affiliation
Cappa, Claudia
United States, New York
Unicef
Statistics
Authors: 8
Affiliations: 10
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1186/s41043-023-00483-2
ISSN:
16060997
Research Areas
Maternal And Child Health
Study Design
Cross Sectional Study