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The EDI: Monitoring Children’s Development and Readiness for School 185 Janus and Offord (2000) designed the EDI to: Serve as a ...

186 Magdalena Janus Language and cognitive development Communication skills and general knowledge. A teacher or early childhoo ...

developmentalmilestones, rather than specific curriculum goals, and they can be adapted to local contexts. In addition to the 10 ...

188 Magdalena Janus Box 1. Highest and Lowest Percentiles of Development in the EDI Physical health and well-being Above the 90 ...

The EDI: Monitoring Children’s Development and Readiness for School 189 Below the 10thpercentile: A child has problems in both ...

190 Magdalena Janus drawing (a picture of oneself). The test is suitable for children ages 3–7 years. External Validity The EDI’ ...

The EDI: Monitoring Children’s Development and Readiness for School 191 The correlations in the EDI domains were as follows: Ph ...

192 Magdalena Janus The normative data are a representative benchmark for comparing past, present, and future data. The process ...

The EDI: Monitoring Children’s Development and Readiness for School 193 Number of Vulnerable Children Figure 2 illustrates that, ...

194 Magdalena Janus Vulnerability and Socioeconomic Status To examine school readiness at the population level and in relation t ...

The EDI: Monitoring Children’s Development and Readiness for School 195 ✓ Percentage of children at risk for not doing well in s ...

196 Magdalena Janus results will not necessarily be applicable to all neighborhoods or smaller communities because of the variat ...

The EDI: Monitoring Children’s Development and Readiness for School 197 National macrolevel indicators—for example, gross domes ...

198 Magdalena Janus Adaptation of the EDI for use in other countries has been facili- tated by: Designation of EDI sub-domains. ...

The EDI: Monitoring Children’s Development and Readiness for School 199 Steps in Adapting the EDI Locally Adaptation of the EDI ...

200 Magdalena Janus To document reliability and validity, the data from these addi- tional assessments should be analyzed for th ...

The EDI: Monitoring Children’s Development and Readiness for School 201 References deLemos, M., and B. Doig. 1999. Who Am I? Dev ...

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Part IV Financing of ECD Initiatives— Innovations ...

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