The development of a South African Early Learning Outcomes Measure: A South African instrument for measuring early learning program outcomes.
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 socio‐economic backgrounds and can be administered by non‐professionals. This contribution reports the standardisation...
| Publicado en: | Child: Care, Health & Development Vol. 45; no. 2; pp. 257 - 271 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2019
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