Tag Archives: Child Outcomes Summary (COS)

New to Child Outcomes Measurement?

In this IDIO 2024 presentation, DaSy/ECTA staff cover the basics for child outcomes measurement and reporting, including an overview of how they were developed, what the outcomes are, how the indicators are calculated, what approaches to measurement states use, what the national results look like, how to consider child outcomes data quality, and where to access additional resources.

No Need to Reinvent the Wheel: Resources to Reinforce Core COS Practices

Conference: DEC & ISEI Joint Conference 2022 Date: September 28, 2022 Presenters: Lauren Barton, Naomi Younggren, Henry Matthews, Stephanie Moore, Kellen Reid, Faith Scheibe, and Nicholas Ortiz This session explored the available Child Outcomes Summary (COS) professional development materials that can help teams focus on functionality, cover the breadth of the outcomes, age anchor skills, […]

IDEA Child Outcomes Highlights for FFY 2020

For Part C Early Intervention, a comparison of national averages from FFY 2019 to FFY 2020 showed increases in some outcomes and decreases in others. There was an increase in the percent of children making greater than expected progress in Social Relationships and Knowledge and Skills, and an increase in the percent of children exiting […]

Analysis Steps Used to Generate National Estimates for Progress Categories, Summary Statements, and Results FFY 2020

National estimates were computed using three methods: (1) Computing weighted national estimates for all states, (2) Computing the unweighted national estimates for all states, and (3) Computing the weighted national estimates for the reduced set of states with high-quality data Analysis Steps Used to Generate National Estimates for Progress Categories, Summary Statements, and Results FFY […]