12 From birth to early child care

Abstract

The birth cohort study of the German National Educational Panel Study takes up the challenge of measuring education-relevant conditions and processes as well as the development of competencies in the first years of a child's life. The rationale to begin "from the crib on" can be found in results of infant and early childhood research. We review the design and main features of existing birth cohort studies in the field of education conducted in developed countries. Most studies begin when infants are between 6 and 11 months old with subsequent waves annually or every second year. The most common instruments are computer-assisted parent interviews, sometimes accompanied by additional self-completion modules, or completely self-administered questionnaires. We discuss early childhood developmental indicators and instruments that can be applied in large-scale assessments carried out in private homes. We favor measurements with predictive validity for subsequent development. The birth cohort study will start in 2012 with a representative sample of 3,000 children born in Germany in this year.

Evaluierung der Eltern-Kind-Interaktions Einschätzskala (EKIE) – adaptiert für Eltern-Kind-Dyaden nach kindlicher Cochlea Implantat-Versorgung – eine Pilotstudie

“…Zur Erfassung der familiären Lernumwelt in der frühen Kindheit und deren Auswirkungen auf die weitere Bildung wurden im Rahmen des Nationalen Bildungspanels (NEPS) seit 2011 videografierte Eltern-Kind-Interaktionen einer national repräsentativen Stichprobe (n = 3.481) untersucht [29][30][31]. Messungen der Eltern-Kind-Interaktion wurden zu drei Messzeitpunkten (7, 16 und 26 Monaten) durchgeführt.…”

Analyzing early child development, influential conditions, and future impacts: prospects of a German newborn cohort study

“…If newborn cohort studies took direct measures into consideration in addition to interviews and questionnaires, they often relied on the Bayley Scales of Infant Development (Bayley 2006;Schlesiger et al 2011 for a brief overview). However, the NEPS feasibility and pilot studies revealed that the standardized administration of test items (using an educationally sound selection of items) turned out to be highly error-prone for trained interviewers who are usually experts in administering interviews but not tests.…”

Exploratory Study on Infant Development under Institutional Sheltering in the North Region of Brazil

“…However, it is discussed whether the changes in the psychomotor development are due to violence that took place before the sheltering, or on the contrary, are originated by prolonged sheltering, and whether these places would certainly remain as keepers of this delay (Van Ijzendoorn et al, 2011;Tizard & Tizard, 1967;Tizard & Joseph, 1970;Siqueira & Dell'Aglio, 2006;Manso, Garcia-Baamonde, & Alonso, 2011). Nonetheless, other studies state that without detection and intervention, when necessary, this scenery may lead to future problems in older ages, as the rising of other incapabilities, for example those presented at school related to difficulties in essential areas for learning (Schlesiger et al, 2011;Conti et al, 2012;Cardona, Manes, Escobar, López, & Ibáñez, 2012).…”