Module on Child Functioning – Teacher Version

UNICEF and the Washington Group developed a Teacher Version of the Child Functioning Module (CFM-TV) that can be used in national Education Management Information Systems as well as other data collection efforts, such as school-based surveys, with teachers as respondents. With the necessary caveats, the CFM-TV can also be used for programme monitoring and evaluation. The CFM-TV was developed to take advantage of school-based data collections. Such collections, either as part of Education Management Information Systems or surveys, have the benefit of reduced costs compared with other data collection platforms, such as household surveys, since data collection occurs where children are known to be present.

The CFM-TV consists of 20 questions for school-aged children (5 to 17 years). The questionnaire is designed to identify difficulties in a number of functional domains — seeing, hearing, mobility, fine motor, communication/comprehension, learning, remembering, attention and concentrating, coping with change, controlling behaviour, relationships, and affect (anxiety and depression).