Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP210100402

Funding Activity

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Funded Activity Summary

Deadly Start: Enabling Preschoolers’ Literacy, Numeracy and Wellbeing. This project aims to test the effectiveness of a new preschool oral language, literacy, numeracy and wellbeing intervention for Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian students using powerful interdisciplinary approaches. The project generates new knowledge about enabling preschool children to have a deadly start to literacy, numeracy and wellbeing, capitalising on research-derived interventions. Expected outcomes include salient intervention and measures and advances in preschool education that enable a deadly start. The benefits encompass identifying effective intervention and drivers that support a deadly start to literacy and numeracy, and having adaptive motivation, new theory and developmentally appropriate measures.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2022

End Date: 31-12-2024

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $771,651.00

Funder: Australian Research Council