The Early Year Analytics (TEYAN): A Wellbeing and Development Management Decision Support System for Early years Providers

早年的发展为终身学习、表现、行为和幸福奠定了坚实的基础。科学家发现，新生儿开始时的大脑结构相似，但儿童发育敏感期的事件有助于连接不同能力的大脑(Couperus，2006)。有证据表明，在社会、情感、身体和智力方面得到充分养育和支持的儿童有发展多种神经连接的趋势，这些神经连接将在他们的一生中很好地服务于他们(最佳开端，2022年)，同时也为未来的心理健康奠定基础(佩西，2021年)。为了确保有效跟踪儿童的全面发展，早期基础阶段(EYFS)框架为儿童从出生到五岁的学习、发展和照顾设定了标准。这是为了帮助实践者展示儿童在学习和发展方面取得的进展，以充分发挥他们的潜力。然而，尽管提供了EYFS框架，但不同条款的执行情况不同，结构和标准化程度较低(C4EO，2020)。监测通常是通过复杂的基于EXCEL的解决方案完成的，没有机会受益于数字化平台提供的分析能力。这往往导致错过早期干预、转诊和从历史记录中学习的机会，早期从业者报告繁琐的文书工作、重复和不一致(Eyes，2019)。与家长和未来小学教育提供者积极合作的机会也失去了。为了应对这一挑战，该项目提出了一个数字平台TEYAN，它减轻了教师的工作量，促进了适当的监测、跟踪和早期干预，以促进充分发展。它将帮助教师有效地管理儿童的福祉，同时还通过以下方式支持决策：*提供对照早期目标的基准*帮助观察收集和支持证据提供*提供实时进度跟踪，包括健康、福祉、发育、饮食/耐量等。*进行潜在问题分析*估计发育年龄，包括增值*建议早期干预、转介和生成干预计划的途径*生成报告，显示优势，**TEYAN包含五个集成为基于网络的应用程序的模块：*用户管理门户，带有个性化的儿童仪表板，家长/照顾者可以访问*观察证据模块，支持各种数据输入格式，包括文档、音频、视频等。*分析平台，促进(I)RAGS指标(Ii)潜在问题分析，(Iii)价值增值分析(Iv)早期干预规划*国家和地区批准的转介和干预活动计划数据库。*报告生成模块，根据国家目标对儿童的发展进行基准测试。

Early years development sets solid foundation for lifelong learning, performance, behaviour, and wellbeing. Scientists established that newborns start with similar brain structure, but events during sensitive period of child's development help in wiring brain for different abilities (Couperus,2006). Evidence suggests that children that are adequately nurtured and supported socially, emotionally, physically, and intellectually have the tendency of developing multitude of neural connections that would serve them well throughout their life course (Best start,2022), while also laying foundation for mental health in the future (PACEY,2021).To ensure effective tracking of children's overall development, the Early Year Foundation Stage (EYFS) Framework sets standards for learning, development, and care for children from birth to five. This is meant to help practitioners to demonstrate children's progress in learning and development towards reaching their full potentials.However, despite the availability of EYFS framework, implementation differs across provisions with less structure and standardization (C4EO,2020). Monitoring is usually done through complicated excel-based solutions with no opportunity for benefitting from analytical power that are offered by digitalised platform. This often led to missed opportunities for early intervention, referral and learning from historical records, with early year practitioner reporting burdensome paperwork, duplication, and inconsistency (EYE,2019). The opportunity for active collaboration with parents and future primary education providers is also lost. To address this challenge, this project proposed a digital platform, TEYAN, that reduces teachers' workload and facilitate appropriate monitoring, tracking and early intervention for adequate developmentIt would help teachers in effective management of children's wellbeing, while also supporting decision making by:* Providing benchmarking against early year goals* Aiding observation capturing and supporting evidence provision* Providing live progress trackers, including health, wellbeing, developmental, dietary/intolerances, etc.* Undertaking underlying problem analysis* Estimating developmental age, including value addition* Suggesting pathways for early intervention, referral and generating intervention plan* Generating report, showing strengths, and learning needs**TEYAN contains five modules that are integrated as a web-based application as follows:*** User management portal with personalised child's dashboard that is accessible to parents/carers* Observation evidencing module that supports various data input formats, including documents, audio, video, etc.* Analytics platform that facilitates (i)RAGs indicators (ii)Underlying problem analysis, (iii)Value addition analysis (iv)Early intervention planning* Database of nationally and regionally approved referral and intervention programs of activities.* Report generation module that benchmark child's development against the national goals.