ABSTRACT

Children learn to walk, speak, and think at an astonishing pace. The D-score presents a unified framework that places children and their developmental milestones from different tools onto the same scale, enabling comparisons in child development across populations, groups and individuals. This pioneering text explains why we need the D-score, how we construct it, and how we calculate it. It will be of interest not just to professionals in child development, but also to policymakers in international settings and to data scientists.

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section 1|108 pages

Child development with the D-score: turning milestones into measurement

chapter 1.1|5 pages

Introduction

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Short history

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chapter 1.4|13 pages

The D-score

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Computation

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Evaluation

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Validity

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Precision

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Next steps

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Appendices

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section 2|73 pages

Child development with the D-score: tuning instruments to unity

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Introduction

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Data

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Comparability

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Equate groups

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Modelling equates

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Comparing ability

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Discussion

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Appendices

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