The Effective Provision of Pre-School Education (EPPE) Project: Technical Paper 7 - Social/behavioural and Cognitive Development at 3-4 Years in Relation to Family Background

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The Impact of Parental Involvement, Parental Support and Family Education on Pupil Achievement and Adjustment: a literature review (2003, background): “Melhuish et al (2001) concluded that, ‘higher home learning environment was associated with increased levels of cooperation and conformity, peer sociability and confidence, … lower anti-social and worried or upset behaviour and higher cognitive development scores … after age it was the variable…”
Early child care and early child development: Major findings of the NICHD study of early child care (2006, result): “Similar results also emerged in a parallel study of over 800 children in Northern Ireland (Melhuish et al., 2001b, 2002a, 2002b).”
Evaluating the Madrasa preschool programme in East Africa: a quasi‐experimental study (2008, background): “…239 not only that preschool experience, compared to none, enhances children’s development but also that some individual preschool settings are more effective for positive child outcomes than others (Melhuish et al. 2001; Sammons et al. 2003a, b; Siraj-Blatchford et al. 2003; Sylva et al. 2004b).”
The impact of pre-school on young children's cognitive attainments at entry to reception (2004, result): “This result is in line with earlier ®ndings (Sammons et al., 1999; Melhuish et al., 2001) on its impact for cognitive attainment at entry to the pre-school study (see also discussions by Sylva & MacPherson, 2002).”