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

早期发展为终身学习、表现、行为和幸福奠定了坚实的基础。科学家们证实，新生儿的大脑结构开始时是相似的，但在儿童发育的敏感时期发生的事件有助于大脑连接不同的能力（Couperus,2006）。有证据表明，在社会、情感、身体和智力上得到充分培养和支持的儿童有发展大量神经连接的趋势，这些神经连接将在他们的整个生命过程中很好地服务于他们（Best start,2022），同时也为未来的心理健康奠定基础（PACEY,2021）。为了确保对儿童全面发展的有效跟踪，早期基础阶段（EYFS）框架为儿童从出生到五岁的学习、发展和护理设定了标准。这是为了帮助从业者展示儿童在学习和发展方面的进步，以充分发挥他们的潜力。然而，尽管有EYFS框架，但各条款的实施情况不同，结构和标准化程度较低（C4EO,2020）。监控通常是通过复杂的基于excel的解决方案完成的，没有机会从数字化平台提供的分析能力中受益。这往往导致错过了早期干预、转诊和从历史记录中学习的机会，早期从业者报告了繁琐的文书工作、重复和不一致（EYE,2019）。也失去了与家长和未来小学教育提供者积极合作的机会。为了应对这一挑战，该项目提出了一个数字平台TEYAN，它可以减少教师的工作量，促进适当的监测、跟踪和早期干预，以实现充分的发展。它将帮助教师有效地管理儿童的福祉，同时通过以下方式支持决策：*提供针对早期目标的基准*帮助观察和支持证据提供*提供实时进度跟踪，包括健康、福祉、*进行潜在问题分析*估计发育年龄，包括增值*建议早期干预途径，转诊并生成干预方案*生成报告，显示优势；**TEYAN包含五个模块，这些模块集成为一个基于web的应用程序，如下：***带有个性化儿童仪表板的用户管理门户，可供家长/护理人员访问*支持各种数据输入格式的观察证据模块，包括文档、音频、视频等*分析平台，促进(i) rag指标（ii）潜在问题分析；增值分析早期干预规划*国家和区域核可的活动转诊和干预方案数据库。*根据国家目标对儿童发展进行基准测试的报告生成模块。

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.