Education
Research articles
2025
- 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
2024
- 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.
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
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
Education Insights Series:
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). SchoolExperiences: Overcoming Challenges (Our Voices Summer Snapshot Series). WaipapaTaumata Rau, the University of Auckland.
- Rudd, G., Kirk, K., McCardle,A., Pita, A., Peterson, E. R., Marks, E., & Meissel, K a. (2024). Schoolsand 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. ISBN: 978-1-99-002342-2
- 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. Available here.
- 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. Available here.
- 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. Available here.
- 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. Available here.
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