#  The Caregiver Reported Early Development Instruments (CREDI) 

 



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Several measures of children’s early childhood development (ECD) status have been developed for large-scale use. Until recently, however, no measures of population-level ECD had been validated specifically for children ages 0 to 3 across developing countries, making cross-national comparisons of developmental status and progress for the youngest – and potentially most vulnerable – children impossible. The CREDI addresses this gap by providing the first population-level measure of ECD for children from birth to age three.

The CREDI focuses on measuring children’s early skills and behaviors in four primary domains: **motor**, **cognitive**, **language**, and **social-emotional development**. The CREDI includes a **Short Form** for use in global monitoring, as well as a **Long Form** for use in international ECD research. So far, the CREDI has been used to measure the development of more than 50,000 children living in 25+ countries around the world:

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## **For More Information**

To download either version of the CREDI and all accompanying materials, please click [here](https://credi.gse.harvard.edu/).

## **Recent Publications**

McCoy, D. C., Seiden, J., Waldman, M., & Fink, G. (2021). [Measuring early childhood development: considerations and evidence regarding the Caregiver Reported Early Development Instruments](https://nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/nyas.14598). *Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences*.

Waldman, M., McCoy, D. C., Seiden, J., Cuartas, J., CREDI Field Team, & Fink, G. (2021). [Validation of motor, cognitive, language, and socio-emotional subscales using the caregiver reported early development instruments: An application of multidimensional item factor analysis](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01650254211005560). *International Journal of Behavioral Development*.

Altafim, E. R. P., McCoy, D. C., Brentani, A., Escobar, A., Grisi, S., & Fink, G. (2020). [Measuring early childhood development in Brazil: Validation of the Caregiver Reported Early Development Instruments (CREDI).](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2255553618301885) *Jornal de Pediatria*, *96*, 66-75.

McCoy, D. C., Waldman, M., CREDI Field Team, & Fink, G. (2018). [Measuring early childhood development at a global scale: Evidence from the Caregiver-Reported Early Development Instruments](https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1XIsY39HNKQAGX). *Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 45*, 58-68.