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 | 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
Blog | 07 April 2026 How we validate translations When we set out to build a shared battery of tasks for children across countries, translation quickly emerged as one of the hardest technical problems. If a task does not “speak every child’s language” in a way that is natural and culturally grounded, comparisons across sites start to break down. Since the start of the […] Read more about How we validate translations Read more about How we validate translations
Blog | 09 March 2026 LEVANTE Data Release and Hackathon — Join us this summer! Robust discoveries in developmental science can be accelerated when open, high-quality datasets are easily accessible and used alongside best practices for reproducible research. To support this work, we are excited to announce the first publicly available LEVANTE dataset and an upcoming hackathon in summer 2026. Together, these contributions mark important steps forward for the LEVANTE […] Read more about LEVANTE Data Release and Hackathon — Join us this summer! Read more about LEVANTE Data Release and Hackathon — Join us this summer!
Blog | 13 February 2026 From Averages to Individuals: The Next Frontier of Evidence-Based Education Over the past decade, the landscape of education policy has undergone a quiet revolution. We have moved away from “gut feelings” about what works best for children toward a rigorous, evidence-informed approach. The rise of the Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT)—often considered the “gold standard” for causal evidence—has been the engine of this change. Numerous foundations […] Read more about From Averages to Individuals: The Next Frontier of Evidence-Based Education Read more about From Averages to Individuals: The Next Frontier of Evidence-Based Education