Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP210100402 [ 2022-01-01 - 2024-12-31 ]

Research Grant

Researchers: Elizabeth McKinley (Chief Investigator) ,  Karen Turner (Chief Investigator) ,  Prof Alexander Yeung (Chief Investigator) ,  Prof Rhonda Craven (Chief Investigator) ,  Ruth Wallace (Chief Investigator)
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Brief description Deadly Start: Enabling Preschoolers’ Literacy, Numeracy and Wellbeing. This project aims to test the effectiveness of a new preschool oral language, literacy, numeracy and wellbeing intervention for Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian students using powerful interdisciplinary approaches. \nThe project generates new knowledge about enabling preschool children to have a deadly start to literacy, numeracy and wellbeing, capitalising on research-derived interventions. \nExpected outcomes include salient intervention and measures and advances in preschool education that enable a deadly start.\nThe benefits encompass identifying effective intervention and drivers that support a deadly start to literacy and numeracy, and having adaptive motivation, new theory and developmentally appropriate measures.

Funding Amount $771,651

Funding Scheme Discovery Projects

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