Competent Children, Competent Learners Publications
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This is the home page for the Competent Children, Competent Learners publication series. The Competent Children, Competent Learners project is a longitudinal study undertaken by the New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER) which focuses on a group of about 500 young people from the greater Wellington region.
Seven phases of the project have now been completed - the first when the students were near age 5, the next when they were at age 6 and then at ages 8, 10, 12,14 and 16. A further phase is currently underway collecting data from the sample of young people at age 20.
When the project began in 1993 its aim was to provide New Zealand policy makers and the early childhood education sector with a study which could show the concurrent, short-term, and long-term impact of early childhood education experience. As the project continued, the development of students' competence in mathematics, literacy and logical problem solving, and their competence in social and communication skills, has assumed more prominence, particularly in the project's ability to relate these to the home resources and experiences that students have, to trace the impact of different factors over time, and to compare the cumulative impact of differences in home and schools resources and experiences.
Author(s): Various
Date Published: 2001-2011
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Competent learners @ 20: Summary of key findings
This summary gives some key findings from the age-20 phase of the Competent Learners study. If you would like to know more, please look at our main report (Forming Adulthood: Past, present and future in the experiences and views of…
Author(s): Cathy Wylie, New Zealand Council Educational Research.
Date Published: September 2011
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Forming Adulthood: Past, present and future in the experience and views of the Competent Learners @ 20
The longitudinal Competent Learners study has followed the progress of a group of around 500 young people from just before they started school. Information was collected at two-yearly intervals from age 4 until the age 16. The latest phase of…
Author(s): Cathy Wylie and Edith Hodgen, New Zealand Councils for Educational Research.
Date Published: September 2011
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Tracks to adulthood: Post-school experiences of 21-year-olds: The qualitative component of Competent Learners @ 20
The longitudinal Competent Learners study has followed the progress of a group of around 500 young people from just before they started school. Information was collected at two-yearly intervals from age 4 until the age 16. The latest phase of…
Author(s): Lesley Patterson, New Zealand Council for Educational Research.
Date Published: September 2011
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On the edge of adulthood: Summary of key findings from the Competent Learners @ 16 project (Summary Report)
Competent Children, Competent Learners is a longitudinal study which began in 1993 and follows the progress of a sample of around 500 New Zealand young people from early childhood education through schooling and beyond. Several reports from the age-16 phase…
Author(s): Cathy Wylie, Edith Hodgen, Rosemary Hipkins and Karen Vaughan, New Zealand Council for Educational Research.
Date Published: May 2009
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Student perspectives on leaving school, pathways, and careers
Competent Children, Competent Learners is a longitudinal study which began in 1993 and follows the progress of a sample of around 500 New Zealand young people from early childhood education through schooling and beyond. This report focuses on what students…
Author(s): Karen Vaughan, New Zealand Council for Educational Research.
Date Published: May 2008
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Transition to secondary school: Does it affect age-16 performance?
Competent Children, Competent Learners is a longitudinal study which began in 1993 and follows the progress of a sample of around 500 New Zealand young people from early childhood education through schooling and beyond. The transition to secondary school was…
Author(s): Cathy Wylie and Edith Hodgen, New Zealand Council for Educational Research.
Date Published: May 2009
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On the edge of adulthood: Young people's school and out-of-school-experiences at 16 (Full Report)
Competent Children, Competent Learners is a longitudinal study which began in 1993 and follows the progress of a sample of around 500 New Zealand young people from early childhood education through schooling and beyond. This is the main report from…
Author(s): Cathy Wylie, Rosemary Hipkins and Edith Hodgen, New Zealand Council for Educational Research.
Date Published: May 2009
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On the edge of adulthood: Young people's school and out-of-school experiences at 16 (Technical Report)
Competent Children, Competent Learners is a longitudinal study which began in 1993 and follows the progress of a sample of around 500 New Zealand young people from early childhood education through schooling and beyond. This technical report has been written…
Author(s): Edith Hodgen, New Zealand Council for Educational Research.
Date Published: May 2009
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Early childhood education and young adult competencies at age 16
Technical report 2 from the age 16 phase of the longitudinal Competent Children, Competent Learners study. This report covers any impact still discernible at age 16, and provides the technical details of the analysis. The main findings of this analysis…
Author(s): Edith Hodgen, New Zealand Council for Educational Research.
Date Published: August 2007
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The continuing contribution of early childhood education to young people's competency levels
This summary reports the key findings about the associations between early childhood education experience and young people’s competency levels at age 16.…
Author(s): Cathy Wylie and Edith Hodgen, New Zealand Council for Educational Research.
Date Published: August 2007
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Competent Learners at 16: Competency levels and development over time
The Competent Children, Competent Learners project is a longitudinal study which began in 1993. It follows the progress of around 500 young people from early childhood education through into secondary school. The project is funded by the Ministry of Education…
Author(s): Cathy Wylie and Edith Hodgen, New Zealand Council for Educational Research.
Date Published: March 2007
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Competent learners at 16: Competency levels and development over time technical report
The Competent Children, Competent Learners study is a longitudinal study of a sample of New Zealand young people, who have been followed from their final early childhood education centres in the Wellington region.…
Author(s): Edith Hodgen, New Zealand Council for Educational Research.
Date Published: March 2007
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Growing independence: Summary of key findings from the Competent Learners at 14 Project
The Competent Children, Competent Learners project is funded by the Ministry of Education (MoE) and the New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER). It is a longitudinal study which focuses on a group of about 500 students from the greater…
Author(s): Janet Rivers, New Zealand Council for Educational Research.
Date Published: March 2006
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Competencies at age 14 and competency development for the Competent Children, Competent Learners study sample
This report focuses on the competency levels and development of competencies for 475 14-year-olds, as part of the Competent Children, Competent Learners project, which is a longitudinal study of a sample of New Zealand young people who have been followed…
Author(s): Cathy Wylie, Hilary Ferral, Edith Hodgen, and Jean Thompson, New Zealand Council for Educational Research.
Date Published: 2006
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Completely different or a bigger version? Experiences and effects of the transition to secondary school
Most of the Competent Children, Competent Learners study sample changed school when they went on to secondary level. This transition often involved some marked change in the characteristics of the school they attended - moving to a much larger school,…
Author(s): Cathy Wylie, Edith Hodgen and Hilary Ferral, New Zealand Council for Educational Research.
Date Published: 2006
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Contributions of early childhood education to age 14 performance
This report adds to the research literature on the effects of early childhood education (ECE) by providing findings that show how differences in ECE experience are reflected in differences in performance at age 14, for the Competent Children, Competent Learners…
Author(s): Cathy Wylie, Hilary Ferral, Edith Hodgen and Jean Thompson, New Zealand Council for Educational Research.
Date Published: 2006
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Growing independence: Competent Learners at 14: Technical Report
This technical report has been written to stand alongside the fourth report on the Competent Children, Competent Learners study at 14, Growing Independence (Wylie & Hipkins, 2006). The report tells the story carried in the data, and this technical report…
Author(s): Edith Hodgen, Hilary Ferral and Rachel Dingle, New Zealand Council for Educational Research.
Date Published: 2006
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Growing independence: Competent Learners at 14
This report is one of four that describes the cohort at age 14, with analysis of the experiences and resources that are linked to differences in performance and engagement in school and learning in mid-adolescence in New Zealand.…
Author(s): Cathy Wylie and Rose Hipkins, New Zealand Council for Educational Research.
Date Published: 2006
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Competent children at 12
This is the fifth report from the Competent Children longitudinal study, which is following a sample of Wellington region children as they grow from young children who attended an early childhood education centre, through their school attendance.…
Author(s): Cathy Wylie, Jean Thompson, Edith Hodgen, Hilary Ferral, Cathy Lythe and Tineke Fijn, New Zealand Council for Educational Research.
Date Published: 2004
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Competent children at 10
This is the fourth report from the Competent Children longitudinal study, which is following a sample of Wellington region children as they grow from young children who attended an early childhood education centre, through their school attendance.…
Author(s): Cathy Wylie, Jean Thompson and Cathy Lythe, New Zealand Council for Educational Research.
Date Published: 2001
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