The paper provides an overview of a German cohort study of newborns which includes a representative sample of about 3500 infants and their mothers. The aims, challenges, and solutions concerning the large-scale assessment of early child capacities and skills as well as the measurements of learning environments that impact early developmental progress are presented and discussed. First, a brief overview of the German regulations related to early child education and care (ECEC) and parental leave as well as the study design are outlined. Then, the assessments of domain-specific and domain-general cognitive and socio-emotional indicators of early child functioning and development are described and the assessments of structural, orientational, and process quality of the children’s learning environment at home and in child care are presented. Special attention is given to direct assessments and their reliability and validity; in addition, some selected results on social disparities are reported and the prospects of data analyses are discussed.

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分析儿童的早期发育，影响条件和未来影响：德国新生儿队列研究的前景

本文概述了德国对新生儿的队列研究，其中包括约3500名婴儿及其母亲的代表性样本。提出并讨论了有关大规模评估早期儿童能力和技能以及影响早期发展进步的学习环境的目标，挑战和解决方案。首先，简要概述了与幼儿教育和护理（ECEC）和育儿假有关的德国法规以及研究设计。然后，描述了早期儿童功能和发育的领域特定和领域一般的认知和社会情感指标的评估，并提出了在家中和幼儿保育中儿童学习环境的结构，定向和过程质量的评估。 。特别注意直接评估及其可靠性和有效性；此外，报告了一些关于社会差距的选定结果，并讨论了数据分析的前景。