Dan Cloney

Investigating early childhood practice: Insights from a large Australian study

Dan Cloney

Book Chapter  |  2020

Driving Precision Policy Responses to Child Health and Developmental Inequities

Sharon Goldfeld, Sarah Gray, Francisco Azpitarte, Dan Cloney, Fiona Mensah, Gerry Redmond, Katrina Williams, Sue Woolfenden, Meredith O'Connor

Journal article  |  2019  |  Health Equity

The growing evidence base on the extent of and opportunities to reduce inequities in children's health and development still lacks..

More than a snapshot in time: pathways of disadvantage over childhood

Sharon Goldfeld, Meredith O'Connor, Elodie O'Connor, Shiau Chong, Hannah Badland, Sue Woolfenden, Gerry Redmond, Katrina Williams, Francisco Azpitarte, Dan Cloney, Fiona Mensah

Journal article  |  2018  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

Background: Disadvantage rarely manifests as a single event, but rather is the enduring context in which a child's development unf..

Understanding child disadvantage from a social determinants perspective

Sharon Goldfeld, Meredith O'Connor, Dan Cloney, Sarah Gray, Gerry Redmond, Hannah Badland, Katrina Williams, Fiona Mensah, Sue Woolfenden, Amanda Kvalsvig, Anita T Kochanoff

Journal article  |  2018  |  JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH

BACKGROUND: Child health and developmental inequities exist in all countries. Comprehensive and robust concepts of disadvantage ar..

Psychometric Properties of the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (Pre-K): Implications for Measuring Interaction Quality in Diverse Early Childhood Settings.

Dan Cloney, Cuc Nguyen, Raymond J Adams, Collette Tayler, Gordon Cleveland, Karen Thorpe

Journal article  |  2017  |  J Appl Meas

The Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) is an observational instrument assessing the nature of everyday interactions in ed..

The selection of ECEC programs by Australian families: Quality, availability, usage and family demographics

Dan Cloney, Collette Tayler, John Hattie, Gordon Cleveland, Ray Adams

Journal article  |  2016  |  AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF EARLY CHILDHOOD

HIGH-QUALITY EARLY CHILDHOOD education and care (ECEC) programs have the potential to ameliorate socioeconomic status (SES) gradie..

Self-report measures of the home learning environment in large scale research: Measurement properties and associations with key developmental outcomes

F Niklas, C Nguyen, DS Cloney, C Tayler, R Adams

Journal article  |  2016  |  Learning Environments Research

Favourable home learning environments (HLEs) support children’s literacy, numeracy and social development. In large-scale research..

Assessing the effectiveness of Australian early childhood education and care experiences: study protocol

Collette Tayler, Daniel Cloney, Ray Adams, Karin Ishimine, Karen Thorpe, Kim Cuc Nguyen Thi

Journal article  |  2016  |  BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

BACKGROUND: In Australia, 61.5 % of children aged 3-4 attend Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) programs. Children's experi..

Variations in the Availability and Quality of Early Childhood Education and Care by Socioeconomic Status of Neighborhoods

Dan Cloney, Gordon Cleveland, John Hattie, Collette Tayler

Journal article  |  2016  |  EARLY EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT

Abstract: Research Findings: This article provides Australian evidence of the availability and quality of early childhood educatio..

A bird in the hand: Understanding the trajectories of development of young children and the need for action to improve outcomes

Collette Tayler, Daniel Cloney, Frank Niklas

Journal article  |  2015  |  AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF EARLY CHILDHOOD

THE ABILITIES AND CAPABILITIES young children bring into school accrue as a result of prior family, community and early children p..