This report describes the ‘tracking’ of the EPPE 3-11 sample and then goes on to
examine the possible influence of mobility on EPPE 3-11 children’s cognitive progress
and social/behavioural development over both the pre-school and primary school period.
In the present research ‘mobility’ is defined as having changed pre-school or school
centre at least once.
The aims of the research are:
• To determine possible means of reducing attrition in a longitudinal sample - tracking
• To identify any likely predictors of mobility, that is, whether mobile individuals share
any defining characteristics;
• To investigate the effects of mobility when predicting children’s cognitive and
social/behavioural outcomes, controlling for other background factors;
• To investigate the effects of children’s mobility in terms of the academic effectiveness
of the schools attended and to which children moved