The Impact of Expanding Access to Early Childhood Services in Rural Indonesia: Evidence from Two Cohorts of Children

Contrasting Experiences: Understanding the Longer-Term Impact of Improving Access to Preschool Education in Rural Indonesia

“…Another factor is how project playgroups evolved between 2009 and 2013 in terms of user fees. Approximately half of the project playgroups were not charging user fees at the beginning of the project, meaning that many of the children in the older cohort accessed the services for free (Brinkman et al 2015). 22 By the end of the project, less than a quarter of the centers were free, with approximately half of all project playgroups charging between 10,000 and 25,000 IDR, which was comparable to the amount charged by non-project playgroups.…”

Pedagogy versus School Readiness: The Impact of a Randomized Reading Instruction Intervention and Community-Based Playgroup Intervention on Early Grade Reading Outcomes in Tonga

“…The analyses resulting from the impact evaluation considered not only the sequence of services children enrolled in but the age at which they enrolled and the duration for which they enrolled. The differences in primary school test scores between a child who had no early education exposure and a child who completed a full sequence at the developmentally appropriate age were 0.417 SD in language and 0.427 SD in mathematicsa difference roughly equivalent to an additional 0.9 to 1.2 years of primary schooling (Brinkman, Hasan et al 2015;Nakajami, Hasan et al 2016).…”

“…Parent/child interactions are key feature of the Australian community playgroup model. In Indonesia, community playgroups have also seen a positive effect on child development and later educational outcomes (Brinkman, Hasan et al 2015;Nakajami, Hasan et al 2016). The analyses resulting from the impact evaluation considered not only the sequence of services children enrolled in but the age at which they enrolled and the duration for which they enrolled.…”

The Role of Community-Based Early Childhood Programmes in Children Learning: The Concept of Funds of Knowledge

“…Other findings were that the project developed children's language and cognitive skills, improved emotional development of 4 years old compared to those who did not have access to such services provided by the project. What Brinkman et al's study showed was that low cost of community based of early years programmes can improve and develop skills such as language, cognitive and academic readiness of children who have disadvantaged backgrounds (Brinkman et al, 2016).…”