Early Learning Outcomes Measure 2016
Age Validation Study

South Africa, 2016

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Reference ID

zaf-ie-elom-2016-v1.1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.25828/m8hh-t883

Producer(s)

Innovation Edge

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Oct 11, 2017

Last modified

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Identification

Survey ID number

zaf-ie-elom-2016-v1.1

Title

Early Learning Outcomes Measure 2016

Subtitle

Age Validation Study

Abbreviation or Acronym

ELOM 2016

Country

Name	Country code
South Africa	zaf

Study type

Child Assessment Survey

Abstract

In 2015, Innovation Edge commissioned the development of South Africa's first national-level preschool child assessment tool. Finalized in 2016, the primary purpose of the Early Learning Outcomes Measure (ELOM) (www.elom.org.za) is to provide the country with a national instrument to fairly assess children age 50-69 months from all socio-economic and cultural backgrounds. With this tool, we will be able to monitor early learning program outcomes, guide program improvement, and test program effectiveness. This study is conducted to assist Innovation Edge with the 2nd phase in the process for the development of ELOM--Age validation. In this study, ELOM tools was administered to children enrolled in public schools at the commencement of their Grade R year in 2016, in schoolf of all five quintiles in three provinces. The goal of the ELOM age validation process was to construct a sample that was likely to be as representative as possible of children eligible to enter Grade R in January 2016, drawn from across South Africa's socio-economic distribution, and including five major language groups.

The ELOM includes both direct assessment of children's performance as well as an assessment of the child's social and emotional functioning and orientation to tasks. The ELOM Direct Assessment consists of 23 items measuring indicators of the child's early development in five domains:
Gross Motor Development
Fine Motor Coordination and Visual Motor Integration
Emergent Numeracy and Mathematics
Cognition and Executive Functioning
Emergent Literacy and Language

Kind of Data

Observation data

Unit of Analysis

Individuals and institutions

Version

Version Description

v1.1: Edited, anonymised data for public distribution

Version Date

2017-02-17

Version Notes

Version 1 was deposited with DataFirst 20170217. Version 1.1 has minor changes to value labels and includes ID numbers generated by Innovation Edge for those schools which do not have EMIS numbers.

Scope

Notes

ELOM data includes data on the child's school: School setting (province, rural/urban, traditional), school quintile, and school name. Data on each child includes the child's age, home language, height, and child performance scores collected using the Early Learning Outcomes Measure (ELOM) tool developed by the researchers. This tool allows for both direct assessment of children’s performance as well as an assessment of the child’s social and emotional functioning and orientation to tasks. Direct Assessment consists of 23 items measuring indicators of the child’s early development in five domains which are internationally accepted recognised as key learning and developmental areas. These include: Gross motor development, fine motor coordination and visual motor integration, emergent numeracy and mathematics, cognition and executive functioning, and emergent literacy and language. The child's Task Orientation is also rated by the assessor during direct assessment. The child’s capacity for self-care (toileting), relations with peers and adults, and emotional functioning are measured with a Teacher Assessment.

Keywords

Early child development Early learning

Coverage

Geographic Coverage

It is envisioned that the ELOM will be applied to children from a range of cultural and socio-economic settings. However, as finances did not permit a national sample, three provinces
were chosen for the study. The sample for this study then aimed to be representative of public school Grade R students in the target language groups who were between the ages of 54-66 months in selected school districts in North West (Setswana speakers only), the Western Cape (English, isiXhosa and Afrikaans speakers) and KwaZulu Natal (isiZulu speakers only).

Geographic Unit

The lowest level of geographic aggregation in the data is District Municipality

Universe

Desired target population is Grade R children in South African public schools between the ages of 54-66 months.

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators

Name
Innovation Edge

Funding Agency/Sponsor

Name	Role
D.G. Murray Trust	Funder

Sampling

Sampling Procedure

A two-stage clustered sample design was employed. In the first stage, and in each district, probability proportional to Grade R population size sampling was used to randomly select schools within each of the five School Quintile bands. Two schools in traditional, more rural areas in each of North West and KwaZulu-Natal were recruited independently of this exercise to explore the influence of more "traditional" approaches to child rearing. In the second stage, learners were selected within Grade R classes using simple random sampling. Minimum of nine children per school were selected per cluster.

Data collection

Dates of Data Collection

Start	End
2016-01-25	2016-03-03

Data Collection Mode

Other

Data Collectors

Name
Innovation Edge

Supervision

Data collection for the project was granted ethics approval by the Ethics Review Committee of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Cape Town on 11 November 2015. The ethics clearance document is provided with the data.

Data Collection Notes

Data was collected using the Early Learning Outcomes Measure (ELOM) set of tools, which include the following components: ELOM Direct Assessment Kit, ELOM Direct Assessment Kit list, ELOM Direct Assessment Manual, ELOM Technical Manual, ELOM Scoring Sheet, Open source online protocol for tablet/phone-based scoring and data capture, ELOM Teacher Assessment of the Child. Further information can be found at https://innovationedge.org.za/project/elom/

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Access authority

Name	Affiliation	URL	Email
DataFirst	University of Cape Town		support@data1st.org

Access conditions

Public access data for use under a Creative Commons CC-BY (Attribution-only) License

Citation requirements

Innovation Edge. Early Learning Outcomes Measure 2016, Age Validation Study [dataset]. Version 1.1. Cape Town: Innovation Edge [producer], 2017. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2017. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25828/m8hh-t883

Contacts

Name	Affiliation	Email	URL
DataFirst Support Site	UCT	support@data1st.org

Metadata production

Producers

Name	Affiliation	Role
DataFirst	University of Cape Town	Metadata producer

Date of Metadata Production

2024-05-31

Metadata version

DDI Document version

Version 5

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Early Learning Outcomes Measure 2016 Age Validation Study