The Effective Pre-school, Primary and Secondary Education Project (EPPSE) has investigated the cognitive and social-behavioural development of approximately 3,000 children from the age of 3+ years since 1997. This Research Brief focuses on the relationships between a range of child, family, home, pre-, primary and secondary school characteristics and students’ social-behavioural development in ...

The present study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of child-centred play therapy on the moral intelligence and bullying of primary school students. The statistical population studied was all primary school students in Shahriar city. The sampling method was available and a counselling centre called the "Hal Khoob Andisheh” Centre was selected. During the first four months of 2019, ...

BACKGROUND A reversed gender pattern has been observed in the suicide rate in China compared to elsewhere. Like suicidal behaviour, non-suicidal self-injurious (NSSI) behaviour is a health-risk behaviour. We examined whether a reversed gender pattern existed in the prevalence of NSSI. METHODS Online literature databases were searched for English and Chinese articles on NSSI behaviours among t...

objectives: it has been noted that stuttering is more prevalent in bilinguals than in monolinguals. the similarities of the languages involved have been mentioned to justify the difference between stuttering prevalence among bilingual and monolingual speakers. the aim of this study is to investigate the effect of language similarities on prevalence of stuttering among kurdish-farsi bilingual st...

BACKGROUND Education is a key element in the socioeconomic development required to improve quality of life in Kenya. Despite the introduction of free primary education, primary school enrollment and attendance levels remain low. Drawing on qualitative and quantitative data, this study explores the determinants of non-enrollment and absenteeism in rural western Kenya and potential mitigation str...

communication disorder is a widespread disabling problems and associated with adverse, long term outcome that impact on individuals, families and academic achievement of children in the school years and affect vocational choices later in adulthood. the aim of this study was to determine prevalence of speech disorders specifically stuttering, voice, and speech-sound disorders in primary school s...

objective: the main objective of this study is to compare the efficacy of social skill training as a classroom program in schoolgirl students of a primary school with a control group. method: the 4th grade school girls of two classes in a primary school and at least one of their parents or caregivers participated in this study and they were allocated in the case and control groups. the student'...