Understanding AIM-ECD: An Innovative Tool for Early Childhood Development Measurement

AIM-ECD is a comprehensive tool designed for measuring early childhood development, consisting of Child Direct Assessment (DA) and Caregiver Report (CR). It covers key domains like Early Literacy, Early Numeracy, Executive Functioning, and Social-Emotional skills. Implemented in various countries, AIM-ECD aims to evaluate the impact, monitor populations, and link to Early Childhood Education quality, focusing on children aged 48-83 months.

• Early Childhood Development
• Measurement Tool
• Child Assessment
• Caregiver Report
• Impact Evaluation

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1. AIM-ECD Anchor Items for Measurement of Early Childhood Development June 2022

2. What is AIM-ECD? AIM-ECD Child Direct Assessment (DA) Caregiver Report (CR)

3. How was AIM-ECD created? Pakistan Sudan Laos Ethiopia Nigeria Central American country Kenya Tanzania Madagascar South American country Lesotho

4. How long is AIM-ECD and what does it measure? AIM-ECD includes 4 key development domains. DA contains 14 subtasks Estimated administration time ~20-25 minutes Early Literacy Early Numeracy CR contains 20 questions Estimated administration time ~5 minutes Contains optional longer sociodemographic Executive Functioning Social-Emotional

5. Where is it been implemented? Serbia CR Lebanon DA Niger DA Jordan DA Nigeria CR Senegal DA & CR Pakistan DA Chad DA Sierra Leone DA Laos DA South Sudan DA Peru DA Liberia CR Cote d Ivoire DA Kenya CR Rwanda DA DA Madagascar DA CR DA & CR

6. Where has it been implemented? Country CR DA TEACH- ECE Jordan (2019, 2023) X as part of GEPD Peru (2019) X as part of GEPD Rwanda (2019) X as part of GEPD Ethiopia (2020-2021) X as part of GEPD Cote d Ivoire (2021) with IDELA X X Liberia (2021) Madagascar (2021) X as part of GEPD X Punjab-Pakistan (2021) X with GSED & ECDI 2030 X X Senegal (2022) with ECDI 2030 Serbia (2022) with GSED & ECDI2030 Kenya (2023) with GSED & ECDI2030 Nigeria (2023) Sierra Leone (2022) X as part of GEPD Niger (2022) X as part of GEPD X Pakistan (2022) X as part of GEPD Lebanon (2023) X as part of GEPD Lao PDR (2023) X as part of GEPD Chad (2023) X as part of GEPD South Sudan (2023) X as part of GEPD

7. Key facts about AIM-ECD and intended uses Tool Why? Who? What? How? Impact evaluation Population monitoring ECE quality linkage Children aged 48-83 months Overall score Domain scores in Early Numeracy, Early Literacy, Executive Function and Social- Emotional One Overall score Direct assessment Longer training More costly AIM-ECD Direct Assessment (DA) Population monitoring Children aged 48-83 months and their primary caregiver Indirect assessment, Quick training Embed in HH surveys Remote data collection AIM-ECD Caregiver Report (CR)

8. Questions AIM-ECD can answer Direct Assessment What do children of different ages know and can do? How are skills improving/changing over time in response to a policy/intervention? What skills do children in ECD centers need the most support with? What are the relations between quality and outcomes? Caregiver Report How is overall development changing at the population level? What are regional disparities in child development? What home environmental factors are associated with development?

9. Implementation of AIM-ECD Step 1: Engage with stakeholders (4 weeks) Step 2: Recruit team members (4 weeks) Step 3: Define scale, scope & modality (2 weeks) Engage & Plan (8 weeks) Step 4: Adapt and translate and back translate tools (3 weeks) Step 5: Adapt and translate supplemental materials (2 weeks) Step 6: Pre-pilot tools (1 week) Adapt & Translate (6 weeks) In person (0.5 week) Remote (6 weeks) Hybrid (7 weeks) Step 7: Adapt training materials In-person (2 weeks) Train (2-9 weeks) Step 8: Train the trainer (optional) (2- 4 days ) Remote (8 weeks) In person (5 days) Remote (5 half days) Hybrid (2 half days+ 4 days) Hybrid (9 weeks) Step 9: Train enumerators Collect data (4-6 weeks*) Step 10: Collect data (4-6 weeks) Analyze & Disseminate (6 weeks) Step 11: Clean & analyze data (4 weeks) Step 12: Disseminate results (2 weeks)

10. AIM-ECD available resources The AIM-ECD Implementation Package contains: This presentation, a brief, an implementation and a background paper to engage stakeholder and plan. TOR templates for recruiting the team and data collection firm The DA and CR tools and guidelines to adapt and translate them accurately. Training materials, including training slides, quizzes, videos and reliability exam. Data collection files for paper or electronic data collection. Guidelines to support data management Semi-automated workflows to create defaults results reports. Materials are available in English, Arabic, French, Portuguese, Spanish and Russian.

11. Thank you Access the most up-to-date resources on the Early Learning Partnership webpage under AIM-ECD resources.