[HTML][HTML] The effect of using a mobile literacy game to improve literacy levels of grade one students in Zambian schools

J Jere-Folotiya, T Chansa-Kabali… - Educational Technology …, 2014 - Springer
This intervention study was conducted to document conditions under which a computer
based literacy game (GraphoGame™) could enhance literacy skills of first grade students in …

Poverty, physical stature, and cognitive skills: Mechanisms underlying children's school enrollment in Zambia.

DC McCoy, SS Zuilkowski, G Fink - Developmental Psychology, 2015 - psycnet.apa.org
Past research suggests robust positive associations between household socioeconomic
status and children's early cognitive development in Western countries. Relatively little is …

Early childhood care and education and school readiness in Zambia

DC McCoy, SS Zuilkowski, H Yoshikawa… - Journal of Research on …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Despite increased investment in early childhood care and education (ECCE) globally, little is
known about its effectiveness in low-income countries. Using kernel exact matching within a …

Dimensionality and the development of cognitive assessments for children in Sub-Saharan Africa

SS Zuilkowski, DC McCoy, R Serpell… - Journal of Cross …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Over the past decade, researchers have shown increased interest in examining the
cognitive development of children in non-Western countries, often in connection with …

Design and validation of assessment tests for young children in Zambia

B Matafwali, R Serpell - New directions for child and adolescent …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Early childhood education has received unprecedented attention among African
policymakers in recent years, recognizing that the early years form an important foundation …

Beyond phonological and morphological processing: Pure copying as a marker of dyslexia in Chinese but not poor reading of English

SC Kalindi, C McBride, X Tong, NLY Wong… - Annals of dyslexia, 2015 - Springer
To examine cognitive correlates of dyslexia in Chinese and reading difficulties in English as
a foreign language, a total of 14 Chinese dyslexic children (DG), 16 poor readers of English …

Early childhood education, child development and school readiness: Evidence from Zambia

SS Zuilkowski, G Fink, C Moucheraud… - South African Journal of …, 2012 - sajce.co.za
While early childhood education has received increasing attention in the developing world
in recent years, relatively little evidence is available from sub-Saharan Africa on its effects on …

Relative importance of early childhood development domains for schooling progression: Longitudinal Evidence from the Zambia Early Childhood Development …

S Onyango, SS Zuilkowski, P Kitsao-Wekulo… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
While the effects of early childhood development on later educational outcomes have been
widely studied in western countries, rigorous evidence from sub-Saharan African countries …

The development of a South African Early Learning Outcomes Measure: A South African instrument for measuring early learning program outcomes

M Snelling, A Dawes, L Biersteker… - Child: Care, Health …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Background Assessment of early childhood development programme effectiveness in South
Africa is hampered by a lack of suitable measures that account for variations in cultural and …

[HTML][HTML] Childhood adversity and educational attainment: Evidence from Zambia on the role of personality

PC Rockers, SS Zuilkowski, G Fink - Frontiers in psychology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction We examine whether personality traits mediate the association between
childhood adversity and educational attainment using longitudinal data from a cohort in …