Continuing contribution of early childhood education to young people's competency levels Authors Cathy Wylie DOWNLOADS File cc16-ece-young-adult-leaflet.pdf Project Competent Learners Image This is a summary of the second technical report from the Competent Learners @16 project. It examines the associations between early childhood education experience and young people's competency levels. It finds some aspects of early childhood education still have a statistically visible contribution, 11 years on.Read more, and download the full Competent learners at 16 Technical report 2Read more about the Competent children, competent learners project Publication type Research report Publication year 2007 Keywords Youth Competence Early childhood education Student teacher relationship Literacy Numeracy Social skills Problem solving Mothers Peer influence Bullying Children Secondary school students Young adults Competency based education Longitudinal studies Tags Families and communities Longitudinal projects Secondary education