Brussoni - child monitoring system   

So, EDI, and our other child development monitoring system instruments are meant as population level data collection. So, when we talk about population level data, we’re talking about collecting data either on every single member of that population, such as children in kindergarten, or a large representative sample of that population. So that’s what we try and do with our child development monitoring system. So, the instruments are meant to capture trends at those kind of community and neighborhood levels. They have not been tested or validated as individual level tools.  

So, there’s five instruments in total that span from toddlerhood into kindergarten and then grades four through eight and then grade 11. So, what that allows us to do is, is look at different key developmental stages in what’s going on for kids, look at different aspects of what’s influencing them, because we have also multiple perspectives that go into those questionnaires. So you have the parents who are filling out the early questionnaires and can talk about what happened in early childhood and their experiences with access to services in early childhood. You have kindergarten teachers’ perspectives on how those kids are doing, all the kids in their class are doing, and then you have the children themselves reporting on how they’re doing in grades four through eight and then again in grade 11. So the richness of those data, they you know, they provide a very, if we think about those different layers, they provide a very complete understanding of, the individual, the community, the family that allow us to actually be able to come up with actionable policies, practice changes that that could address some of the things that we see emerging.