Bethany Andrews Rhoten, Julia Steed, Rolanda Johnson, Mavis N Schorn
Evaluating and Addressing the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Climate in a School of Nursing
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challenges measuring early childhood development ecd scale documented yet little known specific difficulties related questionnaire design question interpretation purpose paper discuss challenges measuring ecd scale context household surveys show overcome paper uses examples cognitive interviewing exercises conducted part methodological work develop measure ecd outcomes ecdi2030 describes methodological work carried inform selection improvement question items survey implementation tools fundamental step reduce mitigate systematic measurement error improve data quality project consisted total five rounds testing comprising 191 oneonone indepth cognitive interviews across six countries bulgaria india jamaica mexico uganda usa qualitative data analysis methods used determine matches mismatches intention items false positives false negative answers among subgroups respondents key themes emerged could potentially lead systematic measurement error populationbased surveys ecd 1 willingness child perform task versus ability child perform task 2 performing task versus performing task correctly 3 identifying letters numbers versus recognizing letters numbers 4 consistently performing task versus correctly performing task 5 applicability skills asked versus observability skills asked 6 language production versus language comprehension iterative process testing subsequent revision improvements made item wording response options interviewer training instructions given difficulties inherent populationlevel data collection context global monitoring studys findings confirm importance cognitive testing crucial step careful culturally relevant sensitive questionnaire design means reduce response bias crosscultural contexts