Observe, Reflect, Improve Children's Learning (ORICL) tool for infant-toddler educators: Development and research findings to date

Kate Williams, Magdalena Janus, Linda Harrison, Sandie Wong, Sheena Elwick, Laura McFarland

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Abstract

In 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) provided a sharp turn towards the attention on the worlds of very young children with the aim of improving them globally. The importance of monitoring of the early child development was acknowledged in Target 4.2 in SDG4, to be measured by monitoring the proportion of children developmentally on track in health, learning and psychosocial well-being. Child development occurs in a variety of contexts; the two most proximal being home and early learning and care centres. This symposium brings together latest innovative research on three newly established instruments focused on children under 3 years of age: child development measure, Global Scales of Child Development (GSED); a measure of child experiences in early child-hood care, Observe, Reflect, Improve Children’s Learning (ORICL); and a measure of children’s early experiences in their families, Toddler Development Instrument (TDI), that are united by their goal to improve early child development and experiences. The first presentation will describe the development and validation of GSED instruments grounded in evidence from low and middle-income countries, emphasizing the efforts to combine psychometric excellence with cultural inclusivity and sensitivity. The second paper is focused on ORICL, which has been designed in Australia to address individual child’s experiences and responses to educational provisions, as a resource to guide and support infant-toddler educators in the cyclical process of observation, reflection, and planning. The third paper describes TDI, which is designed to provide insight about children’s early experiences in order to enhance actionable knowledge for intersectoral partnership networks in communities in Canada. The discussant will build on the three presentations, highlighting the three projects’ relevance for measurement of the global goals, for professionals working with young children, and for communities where children live, as well as suggest paths for further refinement.
Original languageEnglish
Pages114-115
Number of pages2
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Event26th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD) - Rodos Palace Hotel, Rhodes, Greece
Duration: 19 Jun 202223 Jun 2022
https://issbd.org/events/26th-biennial-meeting/
https://researchoutput.csu.edu.au/admin/files/349105032/26thBienal_Final_Program.pdf (Final program)

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Other26th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD)
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityRhodes
Period19/06/2223/06/22
OtherI am very pleased to announce that the 26th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD) will take place in person, June 19-23, 2022 on the Island of Rhodes, at Rodos Palace Hotel, Greece.

We were very disappointed that we had to cancel the ISSBD 2020 conference due to the pandemic. We had a record number of submissions and we were expecting to have an outstanding meeting. The program was complete and it was of excellent quality.

We hope that you all navigated safely this challenge and that you are healthy and well.

We invite colleagues and students who were planning to attend the 2020 conference as well as those who had not planned to attend that conference to submit their work for ISSBD 2022. As you will see in the instructions for abstract submission, work that was accepted for the 2020 conference and that has already gone through peer review, assuming it has not already been presented or published internationally, will be automatically accepted for ISSBD 2022.
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