A tool that runs in your browser
Screen Value Score
Not how long the child spent on the screen, but what happened inside the hour. Estimated time: about 3 minutes. Your answers never leave your browser and are not stored. Evidence grade: Hypothesis, an independent Dawani framework.
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The questions
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How does it score, and what does it not claim?
The tool describes one session that happened: the child’s age, what they did most of the time, and how long it ran. It also asks who was there, what stayed, and how it ended. It reads those answers on six dimensions: making, movement, dialogue, learning, autonomy in stopping, and distance from passive consumption. It combines them into one score with stated weights, and takes points off when the session runs past the range Dawani assumes is comfortable for that age. The result ends with two or three moves to try next time. Everything runs in your browser: no answer is sent anywhere or stored. The weights and thresholds are Dawani working assumptions, not research findings and not a medical assessment.
What this tool does not claim
This is an independent Dawani framework, not a government standard and not a medical or developmental assessment of the child. The result describes one session as an adult reported it, not the child themselves or their week. The weights and the comfortable range for each age band are Dawani working assumptions tested with children, not settled research findings.
Read more in screen value, not screen time, or browse the rest of the tools.
The reading behind this tool
Its declared sources
These are general sources we read; they are not a certification of this tool or an endorsement of it. Responsibility for the model and its interpretation stays with Dawani.
From it we take the general direction on limiting sedentary screen time for younger bands, not a specific figure that sets the indicator’s range.
American Academy of Pediatrics: the family media use plan
From it we take the idea of reading a session by what happened in it, not only by its length.
Before you describe the session
Questions about the Screen Value Score
Is what I answer about the session saved anywhere?
No. The tool runs entirely inside your browser, and your answers are never sent to a server or kept after you close the page.
Is this a medical or developmental assessment of the child?
No. The tool describes one session as an adult reported it. It is not a medical or developmental assessment, and it does not describe the child.
What do I do with the score I got?
Try one of the suggested moves in the next session, then run the tool again on a new session to see the difference, not to judge your child by it.
Have an experience that needs more value?
Tell us about the age band and what you want the child to do inside the session, and we will build it with you.
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