Early Development Index
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The Early Development Instrument (EDI) is a population level measure of children's development or well-being developed by Magdalena Janus and Dan Offord at the Offord Centre for Child Studies at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. The instrument is largely based on the National [Canadian] Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth, and other existing tests. The EDI combines several areas that have been identified as relevant to children’s school readiness: physical health and well-being, social competence, approaches to learning, emotional maturity, language development, cognitive development, communication skills, and general knowledge. The Early Development Instrument (EDI) is a relatively short and easy to administer tool. Its results can be aggregated to various levels and therefore easily lends themselves to linkages with other population and community data[1].The EDI is used in Canada. Early Childhood is considered a crucial period in a child's development.
The Australian Early Development Index is a successor of the EDI. There is also rising interest for the EDI in the United States[2].
Early Development Instrument
What is the Early Development Instrument (EDI)?
- EDI developed in Canada by the Offord Centre for Child Studies
- Teacher-completed checklist on children’s development measured in spring of kindergarten
- Data is aggregated to a group level (school, neighborhood, city, etc) to provide a population- based measure of children’s development
- EDI is not reported at the child or class level and is not used as a diagnostic tool for individual children
- Fills important information gap in US since early development is not consistently measured across schools, districts or communities
What does EDI measure?
- Five developmental domains
- Physical health and well-being
- Social competence
- Emotional maturity
- Language and cognitive development
- Communication skills and general knowledge
- EDI is linked to child-level demographics
- Potential to link EDI with parent information
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See also
References
- ↑ http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTPOVERTY/EXTPA/0,,contentMDK:20368532~menuPK:435390~pagePK:148956~piPK:216618~theSitePK:430367~isCURL:Y,00.html
- ↑ http://www.healthychild.ucla.edu/EDI.asp
External links
Presentation of the EDI by Magdalena Janus, PhD, at the World Bank, Washington DC, 2005.
Brief Description of the EDI by the Canadian Government.
Maps of pan-Canadian EDI results Link collection on early childhood research on Childwatch International Research Network
