The Effective Provision of Pre-school Education (EPPE) Project is one of the largest longitudinal studies to examine the effects of pre-school education on cognitive attainment and social-behavioural development. This study has followed a group of approximately 2,800 children from pre-school age up to the age of 16. The children were chosen from randomly selected pre-school centres in five English regions aiming to provide a good coverage of different types of local authorities (urban, rural, disadvantaged and diverse, and more advantaged). The study also included a comparison group of ‘home’ children who had never attended a pre-school. This ‘home’ group were recruited at the start of primary school.
The whole sample was then followed through different phases of education and detailed data were collected on individual child, family, neighbourhood and school characteristics at key points in the children’s educational careers from pre-school to the end of compulsory secondary education at age 16. In this article, we focus only on the pre-school phase.
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