Ensure accountability for ECD investments

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Why a Measurement Strategy for Canada?

• Ensure accountability for ECD investments
• Monitor developmental trajectories
• Monitor differences over place and time
• Point to those factors -- programmatic and
  societal -- that are most effective in enhancing
  development

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Five Approaches To Monitoring Early Childhood
Development (ECD)

• Social Indicators Approach
• Population - Based Survey Approach
• Longitudinal Survey Approach
• Linked Data Approach
• Environmental Scan Approach

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Longitudinal Surveys the NLSCY
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Contributions of the NLSCY Developmental
Gradients
Percentage
Source NLSCY/UEY 1999-2000
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Determinants of Healthy Child Development in
Canada NLSCY
Family income, education, parenting
style Neighbourhood safety/cohesion
socio-demographic ghettoization Society access
to quality care arrangements
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Population-based Surveys
The Early Development Instrument
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Fernie
Cranbrook - East
Nelson
Revelstoke - Central
Cranbrook - North
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BCSTA Project SD19 Revelstoke Intersectoral
Connectedness Chart
Six Regulated Family Childcare Providers
Programs Preschool programs
Childcare programs Family
programs Committees/Services/ NGOs/Societies
Family resource prgms Other
referral agencies Collaboration
Some interaction but not
collaboration Arrowheads flow of activity
Cool Kids
Jumping Jacks
Mountain View HUB
Leapland (An indoor playground for large muscle
activity
Baby Talk (Interior Health)
Stepping Stones Preschool Childcare
StrongStart Preschool
Family Literacy /Mother Goose Program
Revelstoke School District 19

• Community Connections
• (IDF and Family Drop-in)
• Childcare Society (CCRR)

• MCFD Child Protection
• Interior Health Authority (Speech/
• Language Public Health)
• Parks Recreation

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BCSTA Project SD19 Revelstoke Intersectoral
Connectedness Chart
Six Regulated Family Childcare Providers
INTERSECTORAL GROUP MEMBERSHIP Childcare
Society School District Community Connectedness
(Infant Development, Supportive Childcare) Mental
Health Speech Language Public Health
Kindergarten Teachers 2 ECEs MCFD Family
Literacy Okanagan Library City of
Revelstoke Screensmart
Cool Kids
Jumping Jacks
Mountain View HUB
Leapland (An indoor playground for large muscle
activity
Baby Talk (Interior Health)
Stepping Stones Preschool Childcare
StrongStart Preschool
Family Literacy /Mother Goose Program
Revelstoke School District 19

• Community Connections
• (IDF and Family Drop-in)
• Childcare Society (CCRR)

• MCFD Child Protection
• Interior Health Authority (Speech/
• Language Public Health)
• Parks Recreation

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EDI Completion in Canada, 2000-2008
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Data Linkage Developmental Trajectories
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Birth and Beyond
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WinnipegValue of Linking Medical Services to
School Data
Grade 12 Pass/Fail rates of language test writers
17/18 year olds who should have written
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J. Lloyd (December 1, 2008)
BC EDI to Schools -- Where are we?
Not yet available
We already have
Were applying for
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Kindergarten to Grade 4 EDI to FSA (like the
EQAOs)
of EDI Vulnerabilities
Not passing (kindergarten)
(Grade 4 FSA) Numeracy 0 12.
3 1 22.2 2-3 4 years go by.
33.8 4-5 55.6 Reading 0 17.8 1
33.9 2-3 43.1 4-5 68.3
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Kindergarten to Grade 4 Trajectories by
Neighbourhoods
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The Vision Population-based developmental
trajectories in a secure privacy sensitive
context
Education
Early Childhood
Environment
Well-Being Development
Family Community
Pregnancy Birth
Health Services
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• Re-Invest in an Expanded National
• Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth and
• Successor Birth Cohorts

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• Expand the Early Development Instrument
• Coverage to all Canadian Children

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• Commit to Improving the Composite Learning
• Index over time

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• Encourage inter-sectoral administrative data
• linkage in all Canadian jurisdictions by building
  
• upon existing successes

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• Encourage the creation of a Pan Canadian
• repository with the intellectual and physical
• resources to receive and analyze the data
• described here and to support policy- making that
  builds upon these data