Grant Recipient
Dr. Eva Oberle
Assistant Professor with the Human Early Learning Partnership in SPPH
Supporting children’s developmental health and wellbeing and reducing existing disparities between different populations of children in BC is a key priority for researchers and stakeholders in education. To effectively enhance child development, wellbeing and resilience and to address specific needs in schools and communities, a virtual dashboard that features population level data on children in communities across BC is needed. A virtual dashboard can used by knowledge users in BC to examine children’s develop and wellbeing in schools and communities, track developmental changes over time, and examine differences in development and wellbeing between different populations of children.
This project involves building a data-sharing dashboard based on data collected from children between Kindergarten and Grade 7 in BC on an annual basis over the past two decades. Data are collected with validated and reliable research instruments using parent reports, teacher reports, and child self-reports. The dashboard will be updated regularly with new data obtained from annual data collections. Thus, knowledge users can view children’s current development and wellbeing, compare changes over time, and examine changes in response to important societal events (e.g., changes in wellbeing during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic).
The dashboard will be designed in collaboration with knowledge users to answer to address the stakeholders’ most pertinent questions. The dashboard is a virtual knowledge-to-action tool that leverages data to inform planning and decision making in schools and communities. Ongoing feedback will be collected from knowledge-users to ensure the effectiveness of the dashboard.
