Our Basic Principles

A global research network to improve our understanding of variability in learning and development through coordinated data collection.

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Key features

What makes LEVANTE unique?

Explore the key features that make LEVANTE a unique framework to investigate the impact of variability in childhood on learning

Open-access, gold-standard assessment measures on development and learning

To understand the nature of developmental variability alongside its counterpart, developmental continuity, LEVANTE provides researchers with open-access to direct and indirect holistic assessment measures of core constructs, enabling them to gather a large, rich, multi-context dataset measuring change over time in children aged 2 – 12 years.

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Unique, field-leading open-access database

The LEVANTE Data Repository (LDR) serves as a centralized repository for the standardized datasets generated via this framework, and allows for the open sharing and reuse of these data. Hosted by Stanford University, LDR is the first cross-cultural, multidisciplinary open dataset that captures the richness and diversity of child development and learning.

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Coordinated data collection across teams

LEVANTE is designed to enable coordinated data collection around measuring children’s variability within and across individuals, groups, and cultures. Distributed across groups and populations via a call for proposals, data collection will result in an interrelated set of accelerated, longitudinal studies that use the same sampling plan and core measure set.

Guidelines on sampling and administration

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