| ECE | Early Childhood Education |
| EPHPP | Effective Public Health Practice Project |
| ERIC | Education Research Information Centre |
| PI(E)COS | Population, Intervention or Exposure, Comparison, Outcomes and Study design |
| PRISMA | Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses |
| RCT | Randomised controlled trial |
| SES | Socioeconomic status |
| SWiM | Synthesis Without Meta-analysis |
| GRADE | Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation |