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Associations between School Readiness and Student Wellbeing: A Six-Year Follow Up StudyIt is well established that children’s school readiness is associated with their later academic achievement, but less is known about whether school readiness is also associated with other measures of school success, such as students’ social and emotional wellbeing. While some previous research has shown a link between early social and emotional development and student wellbeing, results are mixed and the strength of these relationships vary depending on whether data is based on child, teachers or parents ratings and which specific student wellbeing outcomes are measured.
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Children's neighbourhood physical environment and early development: an individual child level linked data studyThe neighbourhood physical environment has a weak but significant association with early childhood development
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Measuring early childhood development in multiple contexts: the internal factor structure and reliability of the early Human Capability Index in seven countriesFindings support the aims of the early Human Capability Index in being adaptable and applicable for use within a range of low and middle income countries
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Healthy population ageing depends on investment in early childhood learning and developmentInterventions in the early years provide a sustainable solution by generating long-term labour productivity and social welfare benefits
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Does Child Care in the First Year of Life Pose a Risk for Concurrent and Future Ear Infections?The longitudinal analyses found no evidence of increased (or decreased) long-term risk of ear infections in subsequent waves associated with attending a child care centre
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Tasmania’s child and family centres building parenting capability: a mixed methods studyThis mixed methods study investigated the impact of Tasmania’s Child and Family Centres on parents’ confidence and competence
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Validity and Reliability of the Early Development Instrument in IndonesiaThis study finds that the EDI shows moderate validity and reliability in poor communities in Indonesia and highlights some of the difficulties associated with adapting western instruments for non-western cultures and contexts.
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Lao People's Democratic Republic – Early Childhood Education Project : snapshot two – child health and nutritionThis snapshot highlights that child under nutrition is a serious public health issue in Northern Laos PDR
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Lao PDR early childhood education project : snapshot four - services and facilitiesThis snapshot highlights that early education services are related to better levels of early child development, but coverage and access is not sufficient
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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.