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The British Birth Cohort Studies are multi-purpose, multi-disciplinary longitudinal studies with a host of potential applications, separately or in comparison with each other and with cohort studies in other countries. This chapter illustrates how the data they collect prospectively on social and emotional skills in childhood can be linked to educational attainment at a range of stages, and how these relationships can be analysed in the context of other features of a child’s family background.
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Joshi, H., Nasim, B., Goodman, A. (2016). The Measurement of Social and Emotional Skills and their Association with Academic Attainment in British Cohort Studies. In: Khine, M.S., Areepattamannil, S. (eds) Non-cognitive Skills and Factors in Educational Attainment. Contemporary Approaches to Research in learning Innovations. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-591-3_11
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