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The Wellbeing and Engagement Collection (WEC): Promoting the importance of students’ wellbeing and mental health in schoolso help raise the profile of student wellbeing in the education system in Australia, The Kids Research Institute Australia and SA Department for Education through the Fraser Mustard Centre, set out to adapt and trial a population-level student wellbeing measure that could be used across the entire public and p
The Early Years Systems Evidence (EYSE) team specialises in working in partnership with governments and service providers, with a distinct focus on improving the life chances of children in Australia.
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Exploring Associations Between Playgroup Attendance and Early Childhood Development at School Entry in Australia: A Cross-Sectional Population-Level StudyChildren who attended playgroup had better development at school entry relative to those who had not attended playgroup
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The controlled direct effect of temperament at 2-3 years on cognitive and academic outcomes at 6-7 yearsOverall, temperament had small associations with cognitive and academic outcomes after accounting for parenting and confounders
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Lao PDR. Early childhood education project Snapshot one: project background and baseline data demographicsThis snapshot describes demographic information of the 7,520 children in the baseline sample, including where and how they live.
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Investing in School Readiness : An Analysis of the Cost-Effectiveness of Early Childhood Education Pathways in Rural IndonesiaThis paper presents evidence on the cost-effectiveness of early childhood education pathways in rural Indonesia
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Exploring change in the Australian version of the Early Development InstrumentCalculating a critical difference for the percentage of children who are “at risk” and “on track” in addition to the children who are developmentally “vulnerable”
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Investigation of the Cross-National Equivalence of a Measurement of Early Child DevelopmentThis research paper reports on the results of investigating measurement invariance of the Early Development Instrument (EDI) in two South-Asian countries.
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Jurisdictional, socioeconomic and gender inequalities in child health and development:Early child development may have important consequences for inequalities in health and well-being. This paper explores population level patterns of child...
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Young Children in Indonesia's Low-income Rural Communities: How are they doing and what do they need?This chapter describes the development of young children in a sample of poor rural communities across Indonesia.