The development of this report was possible thanks to all of the early childhood education and care staff and leaders who gave their time to participate in TALIS Starting Strong 2024.
Andreas Schleicher, Lucia Dellagnelo and Yuri Belfali oversaw the development of this report. Andreea Minea-Pic led the development of the report, under the guidance of Stéphanie Jamet. Chapters were prepared by: Sarah Grant (Chapter 5), Stéphanie Jamet (Chapters 1 and 2), Pinar Kolancali (Chapter 4) and Andreea Minea-Pic (Chapters 1, 3 and 5, and contributions for chapter 2). Statistical analyses and outputs were led by Judit Pál and Sarah Grant, with support from Miguel Angel Quintero Lopez. Elizabeth Shuey provided feedback on chapters.
Anna Machnio supported report preparation, production and project co-ordination. The main editor of the report was Jennifer Allain (external). Duncan Crawford, Kevin Gillespie and Sophie Limoges provided editorial and communications support.
TALIS Starting Strong 2024 is the outcome of a collaboration among the participating countries and subnational entities, the OECD Secretariat and the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) with its international consortium partners cApStAn and RAND Europe AISBL. The development of the report was steered by the Informal Group on TALIS Starting Strong of the TALIS Governing Board, chaired by Bernhard Kalicki (Germany). The authors wish to thank this group as well as National Project Managers and their teams in participating countries and subnational entities, the Questionnaire Expert Group and the Technical Advisory Group who all provided valuable feedback and input at various stages of the data and report production. In addition, the technical implementation of TALIS Starting Strong was contracted out to an international consortium of institutions and experts co-directed by Steffen Knoll and Anja Waschk with Ralph Carstens providing senior counsel. Annex D of this volume lists the members of various TALIS Starting Strong bodies, as well as the experts who contributed to TALIS Starting Strong.