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Intervention Creation
and Testing
Michal Perlman
Intervention Creation and Testing
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Training and skills development policy options
Canada must prepare for the growing need to retrain workers displaced by disruptive technologies. To do so, governments must have a thorough sense...
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Canada’s skills training programs recommendations
Canada must prepare for the growing need to retrain workers displaced by disruptive technologies. To do so, governments must have a thorough sense...
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Who gets to define 21st century skills?
Over the last two decades, consensus around what abilities people need to thrive in the global economy has coalesced around a set of core skills:...
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Understanding 21st century skills needed in response to Industry 4.0
International policy agendas are increasingly focusing on the 21st century skills needed by future workers (otherwise called soft skills, digital...
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Increasing engagement with online learning platforms for unemployed youth
Exposure to online learning platforms, such as LinkedIn Learning, Coursera, and EdX has been increasing. However, keeping people engaged once they...
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Cultivating Young Minds
Creativity and self-directed learning (SDL) have been identified as two key skills that children need to develop for success in the 21st century. As...
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Can a Brief Professional Development Improve Early Childhood Educators’ Responsivity and Interaction Quality in Childcare Centers?
High-quality early childhood education and care (ECEC) – particularly care defined by highly responsive interactions between educators and children...
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Teaching home-visitors to support responsive caregiving
Home-visiting programs are a common and effective public health approach to promoting parent and child well-being, including in low- and...
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What Do Parents Want In Terms Of Early Childhood Education And Care?
In the development of early childhood education and care (ECEC) policy, it is important to understand parents’ decision-making in terms of both...
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Ontario As A Case Study For Modernizing Home Child Care Licensing And Support
Focusing on Ontario as a key case given its population and particular licensing model, we propose a model of licensing which would bring HCC in line...
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Policy Frameworks and Parental Choice
Many children in Canada and the United States experience poor-quality child care on a regular basis. Under the rubric of “parent choice,”...
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Improving young children’s peer collaboration in early educational settings
Peer collaboration is a foundational skill that emerges in early childhood. Children spend significant time in early educational settings, making it...
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Child care policy and child care burden
The policy feedback literature highlights that the design of public policies can affect recipients’ experience of those policies and programs. In...
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Understanding Unlicensed Early Childhood Education and Care Utilization in Canada
This study examined early childhood education and care (ECEC) utilization in Canada, focusing on use of unlicensed home child care (HCC) from an...
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Training and Skills Development Policy Options for the Changing World of Work
This article offers a critical assessment of empirical knowledge regarding labour market training and skills development in an era of technological...
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Understanding early childhood education and care utilization in Canada
This study examined early childhood education and care (ECEC) utilization in Canada, focusing on use of unlicensed home child care (HCC) from an...
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Beyond the mask: Decoding children’s mental health patterns amidst COVID-19 and the role of parenting
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a substantial impact on children and families worldwide. Children’s mental health has been at the forefront of...
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Promoting equity in hiring: An evaluation of the HireNext Job Posting Assessment
The language used in job postings can deter applicants and contribute to the employment gap, which refers to high rates of youth unemployment...
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Conceptualizing and Operationalizing Creativity in Early Childhood Education and Care: A Scoping Review
Creativity has been identified as one of the most important skills of the 21st century. The development of creativity begins at an early age. Given...
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Defining Peer Collaboration: A scoping review and network analysis
Peer collaboration is a complex skill that emerges in early childhood. However, researchers and practitioners lack a shared understanding/definition...
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Both Me and My Daughter Would Cry Sometimes: Parents’ and Children’s Experiences with Home Education During the Early and Later COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic led to unprecedented disruptions to children’s education across the globe, including abrupt transitions from in-person...
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Are Citizens Responsive to the Regulatory State? The Effect of Regulation on Evaluations of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC)
Public service delivery has increasingly involved mixed markets, with for-profit, not-for-profit, and government-delivered pro-grams. In such...
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Teaching problem-solving skills in early childhood education and care settings: A focus on science, technology, engineering and mathematics activities
This systematic review and meta-analysis synthesised evidence on teaching problem-solving skills to children in early childhood education and care...
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Assessing Educator Responsivity in Outdoor Early Childhood Education and Care Settings
Outdoor time is essential in early childhood education, yet quality assessments that are specifically focused on outdoor settings remain limited....
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“It is almost impossible to get a spot when you need it”: Understanding parental knowledge and experiences of Canada’s new child care policy
Starting in 2021/2022, Canada implemented a new early childhood education and care (ECEC) policy, the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care...
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Selective Adoption or Comprehensive Learning? Domestic Policy Makers’ Use of International Organization and Global Management Consulting Firm Advice in Future Skills Policy Making in Canada
The fourth industrial revolution, brought about by technological innovations including artificial intelligence, automation, and advanced robotics,...
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Enhancing Children’s Creativity in Early Childhood Education and Care: A Systematic Review and Multivariate Meta-Analysis of Studies Between 1969 and 2019
This study integrates evidence on the effectiveness of interventions within early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings that aimed to promote...
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Cultivating young minds: Exploring the relationship between child socio-emotional competence, early childhood education and care quality, creativity and self-directed learning
Creativity and self-directed learning (SDL) have been identified as two key skills that children need to develop for success in the 21st century. As...
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One size does not fit all: Associations between child characteristics, differential treatment of children by educators and quality in child care centers
High-quality interactions in early childhood education settings support children's cognitive and socioemotional development. However, little is...
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Navigating Parenthood in the Pandemic: Revealing the Trade-offs of Childcare Choices Through Conjoint Analysis
Inequalities that emerged during COVID-19 pandemic highlight the need to examine parent constraints in their decision-making around work and early...
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Information effects on parental choices for early childhood education and care
Existing research demonstrates that parents are poorly informed consumers of early childhood education and care (ECEC) services. Choosing such...
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“It’s important to have windows so you can get sunlight”: Understanding children’s perceptions of quality in early childhood education and care settings
Across the globe young children are increasingly spending time in early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings. Exposure to ECEC settings is...
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Teaching Interpersonal Problem-Solving Skills to Young Children in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) Settings: An Integration of Evidence
Problem-solving has been identified as a critical 21st-century skill. This review integrated evidence on the effectiveness of existing approaches to...
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Valuing Care: Policies and Practices to Advance an Equitable and High-Quality Care Economy
Care is the invisible infrastructure that sustains our societies and economies. Every one of us has needed care in the past, and all of us will rely...
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