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• Generation Squeeze (3)
• intergenerational equity (3)
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Latest Documents

2018

• The Early Development Instrument (EDI) Fact Sheet

  2018

  The EDI is a questionnaire that is used province-wide. It was developed by researchers at the Offord Centre for Child Studies to measure patterns and trends in child development in populations of children. The questionnaire is completed by kindergarten teachers for children in their classes. They are filled out in February, after teachers have had the chance to get to know their students. This ensures that teachers are able to answer the questions for each student knowledgeably. The EDI includes 104 questions and measures five important areas of early child development. These areas are good predictors of adult health, education and social outcomes.

  Subjects:EDI Early Development Instrument

• The Middle Years Development Instrument (MDI) Research Brief

  2018

  The Middle Years Development Instrument (MDI) is a self-report questionnaire that asks children in middle childhood about their thoughts, feelings and experiences. The MDI is the first survey of its kind to gather information about the lives of children both in school, in the home and in the community, from their own perspective. The survey uses a strengths-based approach to assess five dimensions of child development that are strongly linked to social and emotional well-being, health, academic achievement, and overall success throughout the school years and in later life.

  Subjects:middle childhood development Middle Years Development Instrument MDI

2017

• Social and emotional learning. Recent research and practical strategies to promote social and emotional competence in schools.

  2017 J. L. Matson (Ed.), Handbook of Social Behavior and Skills in Children

  Oberle E. , Schonert-Reichl K.

2016

• Vulnerability on the EDI

  

  2016

  A two page fact sheet providing information about how vulnerability is defined in HELP's research. The fact sheet is intended for parents, community trainers, teachers, and other persons interested in gaining further understanding of what HELP researchers mean when they used terms such as vulnerability, cut-off and rate.

  Subjects:EDI Early Development Instrument

• Where do educational achievement gaps come from? In Education and society: Canadian perspectives.

  2016 Oxford University Press

  Davies S. , Cyr D. , Rizk J. , Janus M.

• Handbook of mindfulness in education. Integrating theory and research into practice.

  2016

  Schonert-Reichl K. , Roeser R.

• Assessing Potential Bias in Population Level Research with Aboriginal Children: Literature Review, Psychometric, and Administration Report

  2016

  The Early Development Instrument (EDI) is a tool for assessing and monitoring the state of early childhood development within communities. To be informative and useful to communities, any population monitoring tool must provide valid and reliable data that is free of bias. Aboriginal children tend to receive lower EDI scores than their non-Aboriginal peers (Janus, 2002; Lapointe et al., 2007: McTurk et al., 2008). A number of researchers and stakeholders have suggested that this result reflects a bias against Aboriginal children within the EDI, and argue that EDI scores underestimate the true abilities of Aboriginal children (Walton, 2007). In response to concerns about the validity and potential bias of the EDI for use with Aboriginal children, the First Nations Education Steering Committee commissioned an independent assessment of the EDI. This report details the findings of a review of the literature, psychometrics, and administrative procedures regarding the EDI with respect to Aboriginal children, and of an experimental simulation of the EDI assessment.

  Subjects:Aboriginal EDI Early Development Instrument

2015

• Proportionate Universality

  2015

  For many years there has been a debate about the relative value and impact of universal versus targeted programs and services in addressing children’s health and development issues. In reality, when it comes to the early years in Canada generally and BC specifically, many types of programs and services for young children aged 0-6 are in short supply. A system incorporating the principle of proportionate universality for children in their early years would create and maintain a platform of universal supports organized in a way that would eliminate the barriers to access that affect populations with the highest need.

  Subjects:monitoring community EDI Early Development Instrument

• Understanding Critical Difference in EDI Results

  2015

  The Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP) has administered the Early Development Instrument (EDI) throughout British Columbia since 1999. The EDI is a teacher-reported survey that measures five core areas of early child development in populations of Kindergarten children. HELP has a number of waves of province-wide EDI data that can be used to explore trends over time in children’s development. The broad question that we want to answer is: “Are our kindergarten-aged children doing better, worse or about the same as in the past?” We can answer this question for areas as large as the whole province and also for smaller jurisdictions such as school districts, local health areas and neighbourhoods.

  Subjects:monitoring EDI Early Development Instrument statistics

• Challenges for children with special health needs at the time of transition to school.

  2015 Challenges Surrounding the Education of Children with Chronic Diseases

  Janus M. , Siddiqua A.

• Preliminary data: Early childhood education and care in Canada 2014

  2015

  Friendly M. , Grady B. , Macdonald L. , Forer B.

• Evaluation report 2015. BC Early Years Centres (EYC) initial lessons learned.

  2015

  Poon B. , Rowcliffe P. , Forer B. , Wiens M.

  In the Fall of 2014, the Human Early Learning Partnership was engaged by the provincial Early Years Office to complete an early stage evaluation of the lessons learned from the first twelve Early Years Centres (EYCs) funded under the government’s Early Years Strategy. This report documents the findings from this evaluation.

  Subjects:Early Years Centres EYC evaluation

• Measuring the Age Gap in Canadian Social Spending

  2015

  Kershaw P. , Anderson L.

  Subjects:family policy Generation Squeeze intergenerational equity

• Population Aging, Generational Equity and the Middle-Class

  2015

  Kershaw P.

  Subjects:family policy Generation Squeeze intergenerational equity

• How to Request EDI Data for Aboriginal Children

  

  2015

  A two page fact sheet providing information about how to request Aboriginal-specific EDI data. This fact sheet is intended to provide specific instructions to school districts, Aboriginal Education Councils, Nations and other Aboriginal organizations for making this request as HELP does not release Aboriginal-specific EDI data publicly.

  Subjects:Aboriginal EDI Early Development Instrument

• Handbook of child psychology and developmental science Vol 2: Cognitive processes, Seventh edition, Volume 2.

  2015

  Milbrath C. , McPherson G. , Osborne M.

• Chapter 21 Artistic development

  2015 Handbook of child psychology and developmental science

  Milbrath C. , McPherson G. , Osborne M.

2014

• Promoting literacy, social emotional learning and parent/community involvement in inner city schools: Combining evidence-based research and experiential knowledge.

  2014

• Sustaining the Village: How Communities Grow Healthier People

  2014

  Poon B.

  The Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP) in collaboration with the Institute for Health System Transformation & Sustainability (IHSTS) held a meeting on February 18th, 2014 in Vernon, BC to discuss opportunities for a new research project that would focus on understanding types of community supports and mobilization efforts that may help to promote healthy child development. The purpose of the meeting was to launch a larger project that could uncover information about community factors that foster healthy child development. Are there aspects of community settings, actions, and structures that contribute to differences in developmental vulnerability rates? Because this is a very broad question, we aimed to use the initial meeting to help identify the factors that coalition leaders and participants in the community thought were important to pursue based on their experiences. This report summarizes the key themes that emerged from the community meeting, with particular focus on findings pertaining to areas including and near to the North Okanagan/Shuswap and northern Kootenay school districts.

  Subjects:community

• Measuring the Generational Spending Gap in Canadian Social Spending

  2014

  Kershaw P. , Anderson L.

  Subjects:Generation Squeeze government spending intergenerational equity

• Working Together for Smooth Transitions: The Move from Early Intervention to Kindergarten for Children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing in BC, their families, and teachers.

  2014

  Jamieson J. R. , Poon B. , Zaidman-Zait A. , Curle D. , Norman N. , Simmons N.

• The best ECD research in Canada a tribute to Clyde Hertzman

  2014

  Boivin M. , Tremblay R.

  Subjects:early child development

2013

• EDI Map Interpretation Fact Sheet

  

  2013

  A two page fact sheet providing information about the range of HELP maps and other graphics that illustrate the results of the Early Development Instrument (EDI), socio-economic information and other ecological data. HELP maps can be used in a variety of ways, from community mobilization to policy making, and are powerful tools for use in planning and community mobilization. Seeing the results for children in your neighbourhood ainspires a direct commitment to improving those results.

  Subjects:EDI Early Development Instrument

• Early Development Instrument: “From Results to Action” survey report.

  2013

  Janus M.

• What makes a difference for early child development? Total Environment Assessment Model for Early Child Development (TEAM-ECD)

  

  2013

  Research has helped us to better understand how everything from the smallest cell to the more complex growing child is influenced by the environments in which they spend their time. The Human Early Learning Partnership has developed the Total Environment Assessment Model of Early Child Development (TEAM-ECD) as a way of understanding these environments and their qualities that play a significant role in influencing early development.

  Subjects:early child development ECD community