James Hall|?athy Sylva|Edward Melhuish|Pam Sammons|Iram Siraj?Blatchford|Brenda Taggart
The role of pre?school quality in promoting resilience in the cognitive development of young children
abstract study reported investigates role preschool education protective factor development children risk due environmental individual factors investigation builds upon earlier research examining different kinds quality early education tests hypothesis preschools high quality moderate impacts risks upon cognitive development cognitive development measured 2857 english preschoolers 36 58 months age together 22 individual risks childrens development assessments made quality preschool provision multilevel structural equation modelling revealed global quality preschool moderate effects familial risk poverty relationships staff children moderate effects child level risk low birth weight specific quality curricular provision moderate effects policy makers need take quality account efforts promote resilience young risk children early childhood services acknowledgements research supported grants uk department education skills dfes called department children schools families economic social research council esrc especially grateful effective preschool primary secondary education eppse 314 team children families participated study dfes granting us permission use data