What is the AEDI?
The AEDI is a population measure of children’s development as they enter school. Based on the scores from a teacher-completed checklist, the AEDI measures five areas of early childhood development: • Physical health and wellbeing • Social competence • Emotional maturity • Language and cognitive skills • Communication skills and general knowledge A population measure is used to report on all individuals within a defined population. In the case of the AEDI, the defined population is all children in the first year of full-time schooling within a community or a geographic area.
Key messageThe AEDI helps communities understand how their local children are doing developmentally and compared to children nationally and in other communities.ﾠ The AEDI pinpoints the strengths of community resources and services as well as what can be improved. Teachers complete the AEDI checklist for each child based on their knowledge of the children in their class. The AEDI Checklist consistsof over 100 questions in the 5 developmental areas of: • physical health and well-being • social competence • emotional maturity • language and cognitive skills • communication skills and general knowledge [more&] AEDI results are mapped to provide communities with a picture of the early childhood development strengths and vulnerabilities in each community and on each of the developmental areas. By understanding children’s development at school entry, communities can consider what community resources and services may be affecting children’s development, and in what way.ﾠMore information on ea
The AEDI is a community-level measure of young children’s development based on a teacher-completed checklist (the AEDI checklist). It consists of over 100 questions measuring children’s readiness for school in five developmental domains: language and cognitive skills; emotional maturity; physical health and wellbeing; communication skills and general knowledge, and, social competence. The 100 questions are consolidated into an index for each of the five developmental domains. The AEDI is designed for use with whole populations of children identified only by suburb and is not to be interpreted at an individual level for diagnostic purposes. The results indicate strengths and vulnerabilities of children on each of the five developmental domains at suburb level. These data can be used to monitor early childhood development, create effective community based responses, prompt new policies and programs, and explore new ways of working together to ensure children get the best possible start.
The AEDI is a population measure of children’s development as they enter school. Based on the scores from a teacher-completed checklist, the AEDI measures five areas of early childhood development: • Physical health and wellbeing • Social competence • Emotional maturity • Language and cognitive skills • Communication skills and general knowledge A population measure is used to report on all children within a defined population. In the case of the AEDI, the defined population is all children in the first year of full-time schooling within a community or a geographic area.
