Education
Research articles
2025
- Evans, R. J., Yeom, D., Tao, A., Ip, R. H., & Dean, B. (2026). Patterns and Predictors of Children's Musical Engagement From an Aotearoa NZ Longitudinal Cohort. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 56(1), e70017. https://rsnz.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/snz2.70017
- Evans, R. J., Tait, J., Zar, M. T., & Victor, M. (2026). Understanding drivers of early life course arts, culture and recreation participation in Aotearoa New Zealand. Arts & Health, 1-24. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41699813/
- Gath, M., Horwood, L. J., Gillon, G., McNeill, B., & Woodward, L. J. (2025). Longitudinal associations between screen time and children’s language, early educational skills, and peer social functioning. Developmental Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001907
- Jun, J., Meissel, K., & Cooper, M. (2025). Clusters of difficulties experienced by children during their transition to primary school. Children and Youth Services Review, 108559. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108559
- Meissel, K., Grant, M., Peterson, E.R., Walker, C., Evans,R.J., Fenaughty, J., Napier, C., Bullen, P., Dubey, N. and Morton, S.M., 2025. (2025). Experiences in times of COVID‐19: Home‐life, socialconnections, and schooling for Aotearoa New Zealand children. British Educational Research Journal. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.4145
- Pang, B., Qiao, T., Walker, C., Cunningham, C., & Koh,Y. S. (2025). LIBRA: Measuring Bias of Large Language Model from a LocalContext. arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.01679. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2502.01679
- Qiao, T. et al. (2026). Longitudinal Surveys Are Texts: LLM-Enhanced Analysis of School Attendance in New Zealand. In: Pfahringer, B., et al. Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases. Research Track and Applied Data Science Track. ECML PKDD 2025. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 16020. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-72243-5_18
2024
- Newbury, J., White, B., Meissel, K., Panther, N., Cook, H.,Cowie, R., & Reese, E. (2024). Cultural Perceptions of Language Developmentin a Population Sample of 54-Month-Old Children From Aotearoa New Zealand.American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_AJSLP-23-00485
- Yanga, R., Underwood, L., Schoeps, A., Waldie, K. E.,Morton, S. M., & Peterson, E. R. (2024). Retrospective analysis of thechallenges and highlights of parenting two-year-old children who weresubsequently recognised as autistic. Advances in Autism. https://doi.org/10.1108/AIA-02-2024-0012
- Zhang, Y., Ballard, E., Lee, T., Lee, H., Schmidt, J., & Reese, E. (2024). Assessing vocabulary and grammar development in New Zealand Mandarin-and Cantonese-speaking children: a validation study. Speech, language and hearing, 27(2), 148-162. https://doi.org/10.1080/2050571X.2024.2303825
2023
- Bird, A., Reese, E., Schaughency, E., Waldie, K., Atatoa-Carr, P., Morton, S., & Grant, C. (2024). Talking, praising and teaching: How parent interaction during a learning task relates to children's early learning. Early childhood research quarterly, 66, 255-268. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2023.10.001
- Boyask, R., Jackson, J., Milne, J., Harrington, C., & May, R. (2024). We enjoy doing reading together: finding potential in affective encounters with people and things for sustaining volitional reading. Language and Education, 38(4), 578-595. https://doi.org/10.1080/09500782.2024.2337658
- Grant, M., Tait, J., Meissel, K., Peterson, E.R., Bullen, P., Wheadon, M., Miller, S., Pillai, A., Paine, S-J. 2023. Now We Are 12: Teacher Survey Report. Auckland: Growing Up in New Zealand. Available from www.growingup.co.nz/growing-up-reports
- Mulderry, C., Jackson, B. N., & Purdy, S. C. (2024). Children's speech, language and communication skills and parental knowledge in the growing up in New Zealand cohort. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 59(5), 1850-1864. https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.13035
- Tait, J., Grant, M., Meissel, K., Bullen, P., Peterson, E., Fenaughty, J., Miller, S., & Paine, S.-J. (2023). Now We Are 12: School Engagement of the Growing Up in New Zealand Cohort. Snapshot 5 (Version 1). The University of Auckland. https://doi.org/10.17608/k6.auckland.26009689.v1.
2020
- D'Souza, S., Underwood, L., Peterson, E. R., Morton, S. M. B., & Waldie, K. E. (2020). The association between persistence and change in early childhood behavioural problems and preschool cognitive outcomes. Child psychiatry and human development, 51(3), 416-426. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-019-00953-x
- Galvin A, Davis G, Neumann D, Underwood L, Peterson ER., Morton SMB, & Waldie KE. (2020). Risk factors associated with language delay in preschool children. International Journal for Research in Learning Disabilities, 4(2), 35-52. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1246422
2019
- Ahmad, S., Peterson, E. R., Waldie, K. E., & Morton, S. (2019). Development of an Index of Socio-Emotional Competence for Preschool Children in the Growing Up in New Zealand Study. In Frontiers in Education (Vol. 4, p. 2). Frontiers. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2019.00002
- Neumann, D., Herbert, S. E., Peterson, E. R., Underwood, L., Morton, S. M. B., & Waldie, K. E. (2019). A longitudinal study of antenatal and perinatal risk factors in early childhood cognition: Evidence from Growing Up in New Zealand. Early human development, 132, 45-51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2019.04.001
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2018
- Gerritsen, S., Anderson, S., Morton, S., & Wall, C. (2018). Pre-school nutrition-related behaviours at home and early childhood education services: Findings from the Growing Up in New Zealand longitudinal study. Public Health Nutrition, 21(7) 1222-1231. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980017004116
- Reese, E., Keegan, P., McNaughton, S., Te Kani, K. I. N. G. I., Carr, P. A., Schmidt, J., ... & Morton, S. (2018). Te Reo Māori: indigenous language acquisition in the context of New Zealand English. Journal of child language, 45(2), 340-367. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000917000241
2016
- Reese, E., Peterson, E. R., Waldie, K., Schmidt, J., Bandara, D., Carr, P. A., ... & Morton, S. M. (2016). High hopes? Educational, socioeconomic, and ethnic differences in parents’ aspirations for their unborn children. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 25(12), 3657-3674. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-016-0521-7
- Bird AL, Carr PEA, Reese E, Morton SMB (2016). Policy translation for early childhood education and care: The Growing Up in New Zealand approach. International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 10(1):5. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40723-016-0021-7
2015
- Reese, E., Ballard, E., Taumoepeau, M., Taumoefolau, M., Morton, S. B., Grant, C., ... & Perese, L. (2015). Estimating language skills in Samoan-and Tongan-speaking children growing up in New Zealand. First Language, 35(4-5), 407-427. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0142723715596099
- Morton SMB, Grant CC, Wall C R, Atatoa Carr PE, Bandara D K, Schmidt JM, Ivory V, Inskip HM, Camargo Jr CA (2014). Adherence to nutritional guidelines in pregnancy: Evidence from the Growing Up in New Zealand birth cohort study. Public Health Nutrition, FirstView Article. 1-11. doi:10.1017/S1368980014000482
2012-2014:
- Morton SMB, Ramke J, Kinloch J, Grant CC, Atatoa Carr P, Leeson H, Lee AC, Robinson E. (2014). Growing Up in New Zealand cohort alignment with all New Zealand births. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 39(1), 82-87. https://doi.org/10.1111/1753-6405.12220
- Morton SMB, Grant CC, Wall C R, Atatoa Carr PE, Bandara D K, Schmidt JM, Ivory V, Inskip HM, Camargo Jr CA (2014). Adherence to nutritional guidelines in pregnancy: Evidence from the Growing Up in New Zealand birth cohort study. Public Health Nutrition, FirstView Article. 1-11. doi:10.1017/S1368980014000482
- Morton, S. M., Atatoa Carr, P. E., Grant, C. C., Robinson, E. M., Bandara, D. K., Bird, A., Ivory, V. C., Kingi, T. K., Liang, R., Marks, E. J., Perese, L. M., Peterson, E. R., Pryor, J. E., Reese, E., Schmidt, J. M., Waldie, K. E., & Wall, C. (2012). Cohort profile: Growing Up in New Zealand. International Journal of Epidemiology, 42(1), 65–75. https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyr206
Reports:
- Simpson, S., Williamson, I.,Rudd, G., Peterson, E. R., Walker, C., Marks, E., & Meissel, Ka. (2025). School attendance: Enablers and barriers (Our Voices Summer Snapshot Series). Waipapa Taumata Rau, the University of Auckland.
- Dawson-Bruce, R., Rudd, G.,Peterson, E. R., Marks, E., Walker, C., & Meissel, K a. (2025). School Experiences: Overcoming Challenges (Our Voices Summer Snapshot Series). Waipapa Taumata Rau, the University of Auckland.
- Rudd, G., Kirk, K., McCardle,A., Pita, A., Peterson, E. R., Marks, E., & Meissel, K a. (2024). Schools and Teachers: Influences That Matter (Our Voices Summer Snapshot Series).Waipapa Taumata Rau, the University of Auckland.
- Walsh M.C., Maloney T., Vaithianathan R., & Pereda-Perez P. (2020). School readiness, adversities in childhood experience and access to government services: A scoping study on potential protective factors. Wellington: Ministry of Social Development.
- Walsh M.C., Maloney T., Vaithianathan R., & Pereda-Perez P. (2020). Adversities of childhood experience and school readiness: focus on children born to teen and non-teen mothers in the Growing up in New Zealand data. Wellington: Ministry of Social Development. ISBN: 978-1-99-002341-5
- Duncan, S., Gerritsen, S., D'Souza, S., Stewart, T., & Gibbons, A. (2019). Is participation in Early Childhood Education related to child health and development? Wellington: Ministry of Social Development.
- Meissel, K., Reese, E. & Turnbull, S. (2019). Factors of the early learning environment that promote early learning outcomes in Aotearoa / New Zealand. Wellington: Ministry of Social Development.
- Meissel, K., Peterson, E., Thomas, S., & Murray, S. (2019). Intentions and decisions about early childhood education: Understanding the determinants and dynamics of households’ early intentions and decisions about ECE and childcare from birth to age two. Wellington, NZ: Ministry of Social Development.
- Walsh M., Joyce S., Maloney T., & Vaithianathan R. (2019). Adverse childhood experiences and school readiness outcomes: Results from the Growing up in New Zealand study. Wellington, NZ: Ministry of Social Development.
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