The Toolkit provides a practical,“how-to” guide for selection and adaptation of child
development measurements for use in low-and middle-income countries. Users can follow …

Recent global challenges like the COVID-19 pandemic have highlighted the growing
importance of children learning 21st-century skills for adaptation and flexibility. Competence …

Adversity‐exposed youth tend to score lower on cognitive tests. However, the hidden talents
approach proposes some abilities are enhanced by adversity, especially under ecologically …

Direct assessments of executive functions (EFs) are increasingly used in research and
clinical settings, with a central assumption that they assess “universal” underlying skills …

The many tools that social and behavioral scientists use to gather data from their fellow
humans have, in most cases, been honed on a rarefied subset of humanity: highly educated …

Studies of non‐linguistic statistical learning (SL) have often linked performance in SL tasks
with differences in language outcomes. Most of these studies have focused on Western and …

Education programs in Africa increasingly aim to develop and measure social and emotional
competencies. However, assessments are typically adapted from those developed in other …

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 …

The transitional period of adolescence has long been associated with physical, social and
behavioural change. During this time, adolescents start to develop their own self‐identity …

As British society has become more heterogeneous, cross-cultural effectiveness has
emerged as an essential skill for all social workers who work with children and young …