Guhn – Middle Years Development Instrument

The Middle Years Development Instrument or MDI for short is a student survey that we have done now for over five years, both in BC and other provinces in Canada and also in Australia. And it’s a survey on which students report on their own well-being primarily, on their social emotional well-being, on their physical health and well-being but also on the experiences they make. In school, after school, questions related to nutrition, questions related to their sleep, questions related to their physical activities, sports, music, after school activities and so forth. So it’s a very comprehensive survey to understand how our children are doing and what are the contexts around them, the social connections, the social relations to their peers, social support by adults and their environments. In BC we have collected data with children grade four and then grade seven but in other jurisdictions they have also done it with children who are in the grades in between or even older.