The Continuing Effects of Pre-School Education at Age 7 Years : Technical Paper 11

The Effective Provision of Pre-school Education (EPPE) project explores the impact of pre-school centre provision on young children's cognitive progress and their social/behavioural development.

The study has tracked 3000 young children during their time in pre-school from age 3 years plus to the end of Key Stage 1 (age 7 years plus).

Previous EPPE Technical Papers have examined patterns of cognitive attainment and social/behavioural development over the pre-school period and in Year 1.

This paper investigates children's attainment, progress and social/behavioural development from entry to reception classes (age rising 5 years) until the end of Year 2 in primary school.