Early Learning Outcomes Measure 2019, Grade R Assessment
South Africa, 2019
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Early Learning Outcomes Measure 2019
Grade R Assessment
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| South Africa | zaf |
Child Assessment Survey
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).
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Version
v1: Edited, anonymised data for public distribution
2020-06-30
Scope
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.
Coverage
The assessment was undertaken in schools in the , Eastern Cap,e KwaZulu-Natal, North West, and Western Cape provinces of South Africa.
The lowest level of geographic aggregation in the data is district municipality.
The assessment focused on children between the ages of 49-69 months in the selected schools.
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| D.G. Murray Trust | Funder |
| First National Bank | Funder |
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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
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 2019 | 2019 |
- Other [oth]
| Name |
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| Innovation Edge |
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
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).
Data Access
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| DataFirst | University of Cape Town | www.support.data1st.org | support@data1st.org |
Public access data for use under a Creative Commons CC-BY (Attribution-only) License
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
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| DataFirst Support Site | UCT | support@data1st.org | www.support.data1st.org |
Metadata production
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| DataFirst | University of Cape Town | Metadata producer |
2024-05-31
Metadata version
Version 3