Anna Kravchenko, Rhodri Cusack
The limitations of automatically generated curricula for continual learning
PloS one
healthy childhood development early years critical later adult health wellbeing early childhood development ecd research focused primarily individual family school factors largely ignored community factors kids communities study kics test investigate communitylevel influences child development across australia crosssectional mixedmethods study exploring communitylevel effects 25 australian local communities selection based community socioeconomic status ses ecd using australian early development census aedc population measure child development create local community diagonality type performing better worse offdiagonal expected ondiagonal aedc relative ses data collection includes stakeholder interviews parent service provider focus groups surveys general community residents service providers mapping neighbourhood design local amenities services analysis policy documents use existing sociodemographic early childhood education care data quantitative data used test associations local community diagonality type ecd based aedc scores qualitative data provide complementary deeper exploration associations royal childrens hospital human research ethics committee approved study protocol 30016 ethics approvals obtained state education health departments catholic archdioceses required ecd communitylevel indicators eventually derived made publically available findings published peerreviewed journals community reports websites policy briefs disseminate results researchers key stakeholders including policymakers practitioners importantly communities involved