Assessing the performance of the Caregiver Reported Early Development Instruments (CREDI) in rural India

Although many education and health programs aim to improve early childhood development, it is challenging to assess developmental levels of infants and small children through large household surveys. The Caregiver Reported Early Development Instruments (CREDI) has been proposed as an adaptable, prac...

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Autores principales: Alderman, Harold, Friedman, Jed, Ganga, Paula, Kak, Mohini, Rubio‐Codina, Marta
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: New York Academy of Sciences 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/142342
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author Alderman, Harold
Friedman, Jed
Ganga, Paula
Kak, Mohini
Rubio‐Codina, Marta
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Friedman, Jed
Ganga, Paula
Kak, Mohini
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Ganga, Paula
Kak, Mohini
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description Although many education and health programs aim to improve early childhood development, it is challenging to assess developmental levels of infants and small children through large household surveys. The Caregiver Reported Early Development Instruments (CREDI) has been proposed as an adaptable, practical, and low‐cost instrument for measuring the developmental status of children under 3 years of age at scale, as it is relatively short and collected by caregiver report. This study employed the CREDI to measure the development of a sample of 994 children ages 22–35 months in rural India and compared the results to those obtained using the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development (Bayley‐III), a reliable and widely used instrument, albeit one not always suited to large‐scale data collection efforts given its length, cost, and complexity of administration. The CREDI validation exercise showed that caregivers can provide assessments in keeping with the more interactive (hence more time‐consuming and training‐intensive) Bayley‐III instrument. Noteworthy, there was no indication that concordance of the instruments differed by education of the caregiver. This is important as it points to alternate feasible tools to measure child development outcomes through large‐scale surveys.
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spelling CGSpace1423422025-12-08T10:29:22Z Assessing the performance of the Caregiver Reported Early Development Instruments (CREDI) in rural India Alderman, Harold Friedman, Jed Ganga, Paula Kak, Mohini Rubio‐Codina, Marta assessments education care work less favoured areas child development surveys childhood development households concurrent validity children rural areas Although many education and health programs aim to improve early childhood development, it is challenging to assess developmental levels of infants and small children through large household surveys. The Caregiver Reported Early Development Instruments (CREDI) has been proposed as an adaptable, practical, and low‐cost instrument for measuring the developmental status of children under 3 years of age at scale, as it is relatively short and collected by caregiver report. This study employed the CREDI to measure the development of a sample of 994 children ages 22–35 months in rural India and compared the results to those obtained using the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development (Bayley‐III), a reliable and widely used instrument, albeit one not always suited to large‐scale data collection efforts given its length, cost, and complexity of administration. The CREDI validation exercise showed that caregivers can provide assessments in keeping with the more interactive (hence more time‐consuming and training‐intensive) Bayley‐III instrument. Noteworthy, there was no indication that concordance of the instruments differed by education of the caregiver. This is important as it points to alternate feasible tools to measure child development outcomes through large‐scale surveys. 2021-06-01 2024-05-22T12:10:20Z 2024-05-22T12:10:20Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/142342 en Open Access New York Academy of Sciences Alderman, Harold; Friedman, Jed; Ganga, Paula; Kak, Mohini; and Rubio‐Codina, Marta. 2021. Assessing the performance of the Caregiver Reported Early Development Instruments (CREDI) in rural India. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1492(1): 58-72. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.14543
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concurrent validity
children
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Friedman, Jed
Ganga, Paula
Kak, Mohini
Rubio‐Codina, Marta
Assessing the performance of the Caregiver Reported Early Development Instruments (CREDI) in rural India
title Assessing the performance of the Caregiver Reported Early Development Instruments (CREDI) in rural India
title_full Assessing the performance of the Caregiver Reported Early Development Instruments (CREDI) in rural India
title_fullStr Assessing the performance of the Caregiver Reported Early Development Instruments (CREDI) in rural India
title_full_unstemmed Assessing the performance of the Caregiver Reported Early Development Instruments (CREDI) in rural India
title_short Assessing the performance of the Caregiver Reported Early Development Instruments (CREDI) in rural India
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education
care work
less favoured areas
child development
surveys
childhood development
households
concurrent validity
children
rural areas
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