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Editorial Australian Journal of Education 2017, Vol. 61(2) 103–104 ! Australian Council for Educational Research 2017 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/0004944117713565 journals.sagepub.com/home/aed The second issue for this year comprises a diverse set of articles all of which make important contributions to the body of knowledge on what shapes learning outcomes – from early childhood education through to higher education. The first two articles relate to early childhood education. To start off the current issue of the AJE, Frank Niklas, Collette Tayler and Tim Gilley analyse data from Effective Early Educational Experience (E4Kids), a longitudinal study of 2654 children recruited at age 3–4 years to identify risk factors associated with child problem behaviour and lower cognitive outcomes to enable intervention as early as possible. Results show the highest correlations with child problem behaviour for three factors, namely reported parent mental health problems, a disability of the child and a difficult temperament. Factors associated with lower cognitive outcomes were a low income, holding a Health Care Card, a parent having an occupation with low prestige or a child who has a disability or speaks a language other than English as the main language. In their article A Two-Stage Assessment Method for http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian Journal of Education SAGE

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SAGE
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© Australian Council for Educational Research 2017
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0004-9441
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2050-5884
DOI
10.1177/0004944117713565
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Australian Journal of Education 2017, Vol. 61(2) 103–104 ! Australian Council for Educational Research 2017 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/0004944117713565 journals.sagepub.com/home/aed The second issue for this year comprises a diverse set of articles all of which make important contributions to the body of knowledge on what shapes learning outcomes – from early childhood education through to higher education. The first two articles relate to early childhood education. To start off the current issue of the AJE, Frank Niklas, Collette Tayler and Tim Gilley analyse data from Effective Early Educational Experience (E4Kids), a longitudinal study of 2654 children recruited at age 3–4 years to identify risk factors associated with child problem behaviour and lower cognitive outcomes to enable intervention as early as possible. Results show the highest correlations with child problem behaviour for three factors, namely reported parent mental health problems, a disability of the child and a difficult temperament. Factors associated with lower cognitive outcomes were a low income, holding a Health Care Card, a parent having an occupation with low prestige or a child who has a disability or speaks a language other than English as the main language. In their article A Two-Stage Assessment Method for

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Published: Aug 1, 2017

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