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Early Learning Outcomes Measure 2019
Grade R Assessment

South Africa, 2019
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zaf-ie-elom-2019-v1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25828/xehh-jk85
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  • Identification
  • Version
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Survey instrument
  • Data collection
  • Data appraisal
  • access_policy
  • Contacts
  • Metadata production
  • Citation

    • Identification

    Survey ID number
    zaf-ie-elom-2019-v1
    Title
    Early Learning Outcomes Measure 2019
    Subtitle
    Grade R Assessment
    Abbreviation or Acronym
    ELOM 2019
    Country
    Name Country code
    South Africa zaf
    Study type
    Child Assessment Survey
    Abstract
    The 2019 ELOM data was collected withthe ELOM set of tools on children who have been exposed to Grade R education. Prior to the development of the ELOM, there was no validated South African instrument for measuring programme performance against Early Learning Development Standards. The ELOM is an age-normed, standardised instrument for use with children in two age groups: 50-59 months and 60-69 months. 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

    The 2016 ELOM data was used to standardise the ELOM tool as age-validated on a sample that is very likely to be representative of the range of socio-economic backgrounds of South African children and for children speaking different languages. The 2018 data collection was also an assessment of the ELOM programme. The 2019 ELOM study used the ELOM score to monitor trends over time in the proportion of children aged 4 to 6 years who were on track for age in key areas of development. The variable "Programme year" in the 2019 roundg of data represents how long the child has been in the programme (or school).
    Kind of Data
    Other
    Unit of Analysis
    Individuals and institutions

    Version

    Version Description
    v1: Edited, anonymised data for public distribution
    Version Date
    2020-06-30

    Scope

    Notes

    The dataset 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) set of tools.

    Keywords
    Early child development Early learning

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage
    The assessment was undertaken in schools in the , Eastern Cap,e KwaZulu-Natal, North West, and Western Cape provinces of South Africa.
    Geographic Unit
    The lowest level of geographic aggregation in the data is district municipality.
    Universe
    The assessment focused on children between the ages of 49-69 months in the selected schools.

    Producers and sponsors

    Funding Agency/Sponsor
    Name Role
    D.G. Murray Trust Funder
    First National Bank Funder

    Survey instrument

    Questionnaires
    Data was collected using the Early Learning Outcomes Measure (ELOM) tool which includes 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.

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End
    2019 2019
    Data Collection Mode
    • Other [oth]
    Data Collectors
    Name
    Innovation Edge
    Data Collection Notes
    Ideally data should have been collected in January/February 2019, at the start of the Grade R year and before children are exposed to the Grade R curriculum. However, final sign-off from the sponsor was only obtained at the end of February 2019. This delayed the start of the data collection process and children who participated in this study had already been exposed to one full term of Grade R. This is likely to have influenced child outcomes.

    Data appraisal

    Data Appraisal
    A similar set of data was collected by Innovation Edge for the standardisation of ELOM in 2016. However, it is not advised that researchers compare results from the 2016 dataset with the 2019 data. The 2016 sample has no Grade R exposure. In all cases where performance is interpreted in 2019, this must be interpreted as the performance of children after receiving approximately 1 to 1.5 terms of Grade R (although recent evidence indicates that only children in Quintiles 4 and 5 schools benefit from their Grade R year).

    access_policy

    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 2019, Grade R Assessment [dataset]. Version 1. Cape Town: Innovation Edge [producer], 2020. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25828/xehh-jk85

    Contacts

    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 3

    Citation

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