Blog | 03 September 2025 Global Collaboration to Capture Variability in Child Development Ensuring that children around the world can flourish is one of the most important goals of our time. Developmental science has made major strides in understanding how children grow, learn, and thrive – but there’s still much we don’t know. First, the field has traditionally focused on average effects [1, 2], often overlooking the rich […] Read more about Global Collaboration to Capture Variability in Child Development Read more about Global Collaboration to Capture Variability in Child Development
Blog | 14 September 2026 LEVANTE is not designed for group comparisons One of the most exciting aspects of the LEVANTE project is its global reach. As LEVANTE datasets are labeled by country, it may be tempting to compare two datasets and interpret these as population differences between two countries. This is not a valid use of LEVANTE data. Sites differ in numerous ways that make direct […] Read more about LEVANTE is not designed for group comparisons Read more about LEVANTE is not designed for group comparisons
Blog | 21 August 2026 Spotlight on the Universidad de los Andes pilot site: Lessons from diversity in Colombia’s administration LEVANTE’s ambitious aim is to identify how individual variability, group heterogeneity, and contextual variability influence children’s learning and development. Colombia implemented one of the very first pilot sites for LEVANTE, starting a school-based study just 10 months after the project began. Through LEVANTE they have been appealing to schools driven by an interest in improvement. […] Read more about Spotlight on the Universidad de los Andes pilot site: Lessons from diversity in Colombia’s administration Read more about Spotlight on the Universidad de los Andes pilot site: Lessons from diversity in Colombia’s administration
Blog | 28 July 2026 Spotlight on LEVANTE’s Leuphana Site: Understanding socio-communicative development through children’s eyes Early life experiences crucially shape human development, particularly during the period from birth to preschool age. Perhaps one of the biggest paradoxes in developmental psychology is that there is only very limited data about authentic, unfiltered family life, let alone cross-cultural data that allows for comparing everyday experiences in different parts of the world. To […] Read more about Spotlight on LEVANTE’s Leuphana Site: Understanding socio-communicative development through children’s eyes Read more about Spotlight on LEVANTE’s Leuphana Site: Understanding socio-communicative development through children’s eyes
Blog | 01 July 2026 Understanding the Contexts of Child Development to Inform Policy Detailed evidence on the contexts that children grow up in and how these contexts affect children’s development and learning can support policy-makers’ decision processes. LEVANTE aims to collect this detailed evidence using measures spanning many interconnected levels of the child’s environment (Figure 1), ranging from the individual level (the child’s own development) to very broad […] Read more about Understanding the Contexts of Child Development to Inform Policy Read more about Understanding the Contexts of Child Development to Inform Policy
Blog | 09 May 2026 When Your Ruler Is Wrong: How Rescoring Improves Measurement in LEVANTE Adaptive tests are remarkable tools: instead of giving every child the same 50 questions, the computer picks the next question based on how the child is doing, zeroing in on their ability with a much shorter test. In practice, that efficiency depends on one thing going right: the system has to know how hard each […] Read more about When Your Ruler Is Wrong: How Rescoring Improves Measurement in LEVANTE Read more about When Your Ruler Is Wrong: How Rescoring Improves Measurement in LEVANTE
News | 24 April 2026 Support for Global South Scholars Planned targeted support for proposals from Global South. LEVANTE is launching a new call for proposals, with the aim of continuing to build a truly inclusive and globally representative network. To this end, the Foundation will also offer active support to Global South researchers. This includes: Who qualifies as a Global South researcher? For this […] Read more about Support for Global South Scholars Read more about Support for Global South Scholars