Early Learner Assessment (ELA): A handbook for developmental assessment of children 3-5 years

Shastri, Jigisha and Pandya, Kinnari and Sen, Rekha Sharma and Rao, M Sreenivasa and Jaggena, Uma Maheshwara (2023) Early Learner Assessment (ELA): A handbook for developmental assessment of children 3-5 years. Azim Premji University, Bangalore.

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Abstract

The Integrated Child Development Services programme (ICDS) is the largest Early Childhood Care and Education initiative in India since 1975 . While women and child nutrition programmes have been immensely successful, the quality of the pre-school education component of the ICDS is still low (Kaul, Chaudhary & Sharma, 2014; Singh & Mukherji, 2018; Vennam, Komanduri, Cooper, Crivello, Woodhead, 2009) . As a part of the Azim Premji Foundation’s Early Childhood Education Initiative, the Foundation has partnered with the anganwadis of Sangareddy district, in South India's Telangana state, to support the ICDS programme in providing quality pre-school education . An intervention of this kind requires a deeper understanding of the anganwadi pre-school context and growth and development of the children of anganwadis in Sangareddy . This information will help in planning a cultural and contextual quality pre-school programme . In order to do so, multiple forms of assessments that provide a valid, contextual and comprehensive understanding of what constitutes a quality pre-school programme as well as the development of children would be required.

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Shastri, Jigisha and Pandya, Kinnari and Sen, Rekha Sharma and Rao, M Sreenivasa and Jaggena, Uma Maheshwara

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