Research Projects
Numeracy in the early Years: Project Good Start
Project Director: Ken Rowe
The key focus of this national longitudinal project involves the identification of evidence-based strategies that improve the numeracy outcomes for children by investigating those practices and learning experiences that support the early numeracy development of a sample of children in the year before school and during the first year of formal schooling.
Staff: Dr Ken Rowe, Dr Sue Fullarton (Project Manager), Mr Ray Peck, Ms Catherine Underwood.
Funding: Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Training
Deliverables: Report on "Best practice" of pre-school numeracy programs, literature review, a quantitative study of children's numeracy development in the year before school and during the first year of school.