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Direct linkIgnitius Ezekiel Lim; Ilias Mahmud; Md. Uzzal Chowdhury; Adrita Kaiser; Fatema Akter Bonny; Samson Akanbonga; Md. Tanvir Hasan – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2024
Despite initiatives by key actors in the last two decades, Early Childhood Development in Ghana, measured by physical, cognitive, linguistic, and social-emotional development of children up to 8 years of age, remains poor. This study aimed to assess Ghana's Early Childhood Development (ECD) status and determinants by analyzing the Ghana Multiple…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Foreign Countries, Literacy
Download full textClement Adamba; Dante Castillo-Canales; Chhorn Lin; Emily Gustafsson-Wright; Mustapha Mensah; Rosa Maria Moncada; Erick Nehring; Elyse Painter; Sorachana Seng; Wendy Smith; Leslie Tettey – Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2023
To address the learning crisis and other challenges facing children and youth (those 15-24 years of age) it is critical for governments, multilateral and bilateral funders, other donors, and implementers to have a clear understanding of program costs and cost breakdowns to inform financing decisions. For nearly a decade, the Center for Universal…
Descriptors: Costs, Intervention, Early Childhood Education, Child Development
Wolf, Sharon; McCoy, Dana Charles – Developmental Science, 2019
The majority of evidence on the interplay between academic and non-academic skills comes from high-income countries. The aim of this study was to examine the bidirectional associations between Ghanaian children's executive function, social-emotional, literacy, and numeracy skills longitudinally. Children (N = 3,862; M age = 5.2 years at time 1)…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Young Children, Literacy, Numeracy
Chen Li; Noelle Suntheimer; Drew Bailey; Sharon Wolf – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background/Context: School readiness refers to the foundational skills and behaviors children leverage as they begin kindergarten, including a combination of early academics, executive function (EF), and social-emotional competencies. In both high-income and low- and middle-income countries, these early skills collectively enable children to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Competence, Thinking Skills, School Readiness
Wolf, Sharon – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Governments around the world are increasing investments in early childhood education as a way to promote children's learning and development. As research grows on the longer-term effects of early educational programs, some have hypothesized that sustained impacts may depend on the quality of children's subsequent classroom environments and may be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Early Childhood Education, Intervention
Wolf, Sharon; Aber, J. Lawrence; Behrman, Jere R.; Peele, Morgan – Developmental Science, 2019
Preschool programs have expanded rapidly in low- and middle-income countries, but there are widespread concerns about whether they are of sufficient quality to promote children's learning and development. We conducted a large school-randomized control trial ('Quality Preschool for Ghana' -- QP4G) of a one-year teacher training and coaching…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality
Esther Duflo; Pascaline Dupas; Elizabeth Spelke; Mark P. Walsh – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2024
We provide experimental evidence on the intergenerational impacts of secondary education subsidies in a low-income context, leveraging a randomized controlled trial and 15-year longitudinal follow-up. For young women, receiving a scholarship for secondary school delays childbearing and marriage, and reduces unwanted pregnancies. Female scholarship…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Scholarships, Program Effectiveness
Petrowski, Nicole; Cappa, Claudia; Deliege, Antoine; Khan, Muhammad Rafiq – Global Studies of Childhood, 2022
Accurate data on the extent to which residential homes for children in Ghana are in compliance with national standards for quality of care and case management are lacking. To begin to address this gap, a census of residential homes and an enumeration of the child population were undertaken in 2019, followed by a survey on a representative sample…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Residential Care, Children, Compliance (Legal)
Kyeremeh, Patrick; Dorwu, Esenam – International Online Journal of Primary Education, 2022
Undeniably, parents remain one of the most important resources needed in children's mathematical development since children begin education from home. The part parents play in their children's math education are a largely untapped resource for improving the quality of mathematics education among Ghanaian children. In order to maximise this…
Descriptors: Young Children, Mathematics, Child Development, Foreign Countries
Dutra, Natália B.; Chen, Lydia; Anum, Adote; Burger, Oskar; Davis, Helen E.; Dzokoto, Vivian A.; Fong, Frankie T. K.; Ghelardi, Sabrina; Mendez, Kimberly; Messer, Emily J. E.; Newhouse, Morgan; Nielsen, Mark G.; Ramos, Karlos; Rawlings, Bruce; dos Santos, Renan A. C.; Silveira, Lara G. S.; Tucker-Drob, Elliot M.; Legare, Cristine H. – Developmental Science, 2022
Self-regulation is a widely studied construct, generally assumed to be cognitively supported by executive functions (EFs). There is a lack of clarity and consensus over the roles of specific components of EFs in self-regulation. The current study examines the relations between performance on (a) a self-regulation task (Heads, Toes, Knees Shoulders…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Self Control, Short Term Memory, Visual Perception
Wolf, Sharon; Avornyo, Esinam Ami – Comparative Education Review, 2023
Early childhood education (ECE) programs are expanding across sub-Saharan Africa. But the quality of these programs, and their effectiveness when implemented at scale, remains unclear. Defining quality is not simple, as learning environments are shaped by cultural values and societal sociodemographics. Framed within sociocultural theory, this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Quality
Noelle M. Suntheimer; Emily M. Weiss; Esinam Ami Avornyo; Sharon Wolf – Grantee Submission, 2024
Across geographically diverse samples, engagement in stimulating activities with young children is considered an important element of parenting that promotes cognitive, behavioral, and social-emotional development. Indicators of stimulation activities are often summed, based on the assumption that more stimulation is better and that different…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Social Emotional Learning, Play, Kindergarten
Wolf, Sharon; Gonzalez Canche, Manuel S.; Coe, Kristen – Child Development, 2021
Research on classroom peer effects has focused nearly exclusively on high-income countries and on academic skills. Little is known about peer effects in low-income countries and whether effects differ under different educational environments (e.g., teacher-directed versus child-centered, conditions of concentrated advantage or disadvantage). Based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Development, Peer Relationship, Low Income Groups
Pentz, Julie L. – Arts Education Policy Review, 2020
Parents and guardians are the first individuals who impact a child's daily life. However, no single person is responsible for the growth and development of a nation's children. Collaboration is critical to a successful community-based program. One often hears the phrase, taken from an African proverb, it takes a village to raise a child. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dance Education, Cooperation, Parents as Teachers
Prado, Elizabeth L.; Abbeddou, Souheila; Adu-Afarwuah, Seth; Arimond, Mary; Ashorn, Per; Ashorn, Ulla; Bendabenda, Jaden; Brown, Kenneth H.; Hess, Sonja Y.; Kortekangas, Emma; Lartey, Anna; Maleta, Kenneth; Oaks, Brietta M.; Ocansey, Eugenia; Okronipa, Harriet; Ouédraogo, Jean Bosco; Pulakka, Anna; Somé, Jérôme W.; Stewart, Christine P.; Stewart, Robert C.; Vosti, Stephen A.; Yakes Jimenez, Elizabeth; Dewey, Kathryn G. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2017
Background: Previous reviews have identified 44 risk factors for poor early child development (ECD) in low- and middle-income countries. Further understanding of their relative influence and pathways is needed to inform the design of interventions targeting ECD. Methods: We conducted path analyses of factors associated with 18-month language and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition, Motor Development, Young Children
