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Direct linkCuartas, Jorge; McCoy, Dana; Sánchez, Juliana; Behrman, Jere; Cappa, Claudia; Donati, Georgina; Heymann, Jody; Lu, Chunling; Raikes, Abbie; Rao, Nirmala; Richter, Linda; Stein, Alan; Yoshikawa, Hirokazu – Developmental Science, 2023
This paper used longitudinal data from five studies conducted in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Ethiopia, and Rwanda to examine the links between family stimulation and early childhood development outcomes (N = 4904; M[subscript age] = 51.5; 49% girls). Results from random-effects and more conservative child-fixed effects models indicate that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Child Development, Family Environment
Chan, Stephanie W. Y.; Rao, Nirmala – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
Positive associations have been found between executive function (EF) and language skills in young children. However, the relations between specific components of EF and language are unclear. This study examined these relations among young children in three Asian countries. A series of EF and language tasks was administered to 700 children (350…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Language Acquisition, Emergent Literacy, Indo European Languages
Richards, Ben; Umayahara, Mami; Mirpuri, Sheena; Rao, Nirmala – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2022
The association between five indicators of inequality (geo-ethnicity, height-for-age, socioeconomic status (SES), gender, and preschool participation) and child development was examined among 1498 3- to 5-year olds from the Khmer and Phnong ethnic groups in Cambodia. Children were directly assessed using the East Asia-Pacific Early Child…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Development, Justice, Social Class
Richards, Ben; Rao, Nirmala; Chan, Stephanie W. Y. – Oxford Review of Education, 2023
Sustainable Development Goal Target 4.2.1 is monitored by determining the proportion of children aged 24 to 59 months who are developmentally on track in the domains of health, learning, and psychosocial well-being. UNICEF has developed a caregiver report measure, the Early Childhood Development Index 2030 (ECDI2030), to measure progress towards…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Psychometrics
Rao, Nirmala; Chan, Stephanie W. Y.; Su, Yufen; Mirpuri, Sheena; Richards, Ben; Sun, Jin; Li, Zhang; Ip, Patrick – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
Changes in physical activity levels and increases in screen time across different cohorts may affect young children's motor skill development (MSD). This study examined cohort differences in MSD in China. Four-year-olds living in Shanghai and in Guizhou province were assessed, in individual sessions, in 2013 (n = 230) and in 2017 (n = 446).…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Motor Development, Physical Activity Level
Zhang, Li; Sun, Jin; Richards, Ben; Davidson, Kevin; Rao, Nirmala – Early Education and Development, 2018
Research Findings: This study examined the contributions of motor skills and executive function (EF) to early achievement. Participants were 7,797 children (3,889 girls) between 36 and 72 months of age from 6 countries in East Asia and the Pacific. Fine and gross motor skills, EF, language and literacy achievement, and mathematics achievement were…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Executive Function, Young Children, Language Acquisition
