Establishing performance standards for child development: learnings from the ECDI2030

Author:

Petrowski Nicole,de Castro Filipa,Davis-Becker Susan,Gladstone Melissa,Lindgren Alves Claudia Regina,Becher Yvonne,Grisham Jennifer,Donald Kirsten,van den Heuvel Meta,Kandawasvika Gwendoline,Maqbool Shazia,Tofail Fahmida,Xin Tao,Zeinoun Pia,Cappa Claudia

Abstract

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 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.

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Subject

Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Food Science

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