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School readiness losses during the COVID-19 outbreak. A comparison of two cohorts of young children

4.03.2022

Meliza González, Tianna Loose, Maite Liz, Mónica Pérez, Juan I. Rodríguez- Vinçon, Clementina Tomás-Llerena and Alejandro Vásquez-Echeverrí – Society for Research in Child Development, 23 February 2022.
The COVID-19 context has created the most severe disruption to education systems in recent history. Its impact on child development was estimated comparing two cohorts of 4- to 6-year-old Uruguayan children: control (n= 34,355, 48.87% girls) and COVID cohort (n= 30,158, 48.95% girls) assessed between 2018 and 2020 in three waves, by a routinely administered school readiness instrument in public pre-schools. Ethnicity information is not available.
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