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Changes in Children’s Cognitive Development at the Start of School in England 2001 – 2008

Merrell, C.; Tymms, P.

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C. Merrell



Abstract

Since 1997, England has seen massive changes in the Early Years including the introduction of an early childhood curriculum, free pre-school education for three-year-olds and local programmes for disadvantaged communities. Many of these initiatives took time to introduce and become established. Beginning in 2001, and each year thereafter until 2008, the authors collected consistent data from thousands of children when they started school at the age of four on a range of variables, chosen because they are good predictors of later success. These included vocabulary, early reading and early mathematics. Children from the same set of 472 state primary schools in England were assessed each year. This paper contributes to the existing studies of educational trends over time by examining the extent to which children's scores on these measures changed over that period; in general, they were found to have remained stable.

Citation

Merrell, C., & Tymms, P. (2011). Changes in Children’s Cognitive Development at the Start of School in England 2001 – 2008. Oxford Review of Education, 37(3), 333-345. https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2010.527731

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Jun 1, 2011
Deposit Date May 25, 2010
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Oxford Review of Education
Print ISSN 0305-4985
Electronic ISSN 1465-3915
Publisher Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 37
Issue 3
Pages 333-345
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2010.527731

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