#TORCHLIGHT 2 DIFFICULTY BENEFITS VERIFICATION#

It is critical that education data systems are disaggregated by disability to measure progress in achieving access to quality education for children with disabilities, and efforts to enable this are moving forward globally.

#TORCHLIGHT 2 DIFFICULTY BENEFITS VERIFICATION#

For identifying children with disabilities, the CFM should be part of a broader data collection including learning and support needs data and undertaking eligibility verification visits. The CFM alone is not accurate enough to determine funding eligibility. However, choice of cut-off level and mixture of impairment severity reported across response categories are challenges. The CFM provides a core component of data required for disaggregating FijiвЂ™s EMIS by disability. Most moderate impairments are reported as вЂњsome difficultyвЂќ. Severe impairments are reported relatively evenly across CFM response categories вЂњsome difficultyвЂќ, вЂњa lot of difficultyвЂќ and вЂњcannot do at allвЂќ. Whilst previous domain-specific results showed вЂњgoodвЂќ to вЂњexcellentвЂќ accuracy of the CFM domains seeing, hearing, walking and speaking, newer analysis shows only вЂњfairвЂќ to вЂњpoorвЂќ accuracy of the cognitive domains (learning, remembering and focusing attention) and вЂњfairвЂќ of the overall CFM (area under the Receiver Operating Characteristic curve: 0.763 parent responses, 0.786 teacher responses).

The method used was a cross-sectional diagnostic accuracy study comparing CFM items to standard clinical assessments for 472 primary school aged students in Fiji.

This paper explores the validity (sensitivity and specificity) of different cut-off levels of the UNICEF/Washington Group Child Functioning Module (CFM) and the inter-rater reliability between teachers and parents as proxy respondents, for disaggregating FijiвЂ™s education management information system (EMIS) by disability.

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