Pushparatnam, AdelleSeiden, Jonathan MichaelLuna Bazaldua, Diego Armando2022-02-242022-02-242022-02-18Pushparatnam, Adelle, Jonathan Seiden, and Diego Luna-Bazaldua. 2022. Guiding Questions for Choosing the Right Tools to Measure Early Childhood Outcomes: Why, What, Who, and How. Washington, DC: The World Bankhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/37030A growing understanding of the importance of children’s earliest years has led to an increasing desire to measure early childhood development (ECD) outcomes. There are now nearly 150 tools for measuring ECD outcomes internationally, which can make it challenging to choose an appropriate measurement tool for a given measurement effort. This document guides the user through the why, who, what, and how questions that must be considered prior to selecting tools for measuring ECD outcomes. Users should document their responses at each step to collate the information needed to identify and select an appropriate ECD measurement tool.enCC BY 3.0 IGOADAPTATION ACTIVITIESAGE OF CHILDAGE RANGEASSESSING CHILDASSESSMENT FRAMEWORKBASIC ARITHMETICCHILD DEVELOPMENTCHILDREN OF AGESCHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENTCHILD'S ABILITYCOGNITIVE SKILLCOLLECTED INFORMATIONCOMMON PURPOSECONFLICT RESOLUTIONCULTURAL ASPECTSCULTURAL CONTEXTDATA CENTERDATA COLLECTION COSTDATA COLLECTION EFFORTDEVELOPMENT IMPLEMENTATIONDEVELOPMENTAL DELAYSDEVELOPMENTAL OUTCOMESEARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENTEMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENTFINANCIAL RESOURCEFINE MOTOR SKILLFORMATIVE ASSESSMENTGROSS MOTOR SKILLHIGH RELIABILITYHOUSEHOLD COLLECTIONHOUSEHOLD SURVEYIMPACT OF INTERVENTIONINTENSIVE TRAININGJOINT USELANGUAGE SKILLLONGITUDINAL STUDYMEASUREMENT EFFORTSMEASUREMENT TOOLMONITORING EFFORTNEED FOR SERVICENONCOMMERCIAL PURPOSESNUMERACY SKILLOLD CHILDRENOUTCOME MEASUREMENTPARTICULAR COUNTRYPOPULATION LEVELPOPULATION MONITORINGPRESCHOOL CLASSROOMPRIMARY BASISPROBLEM-SOLVING SKILLPSYCHOLOGICAL MEASUREMENTRANDOM MEASUREMENT ERRORREADING SKILLRECENT YEARSRELEVANT POPULATIONREPRESENTATIVE SAMPLEROAD MAPRURAL GROUPSCHOOL SETTINGSCREENING TOOLSHORT-TERM MEMORYSKILL TARGETSMALL SAMPLESTRATEGIC IMPACT EVALUATION FUNDSUBSIDIARY RIGHTTEACHING PRACTICETEST SCORETIME AND RESOURCETIME REQUIREMENTYOUNG CHILDZERO HUNGERSDG 2Working PaperWorld Bank10.1596/37030