Memorabilia

August 2011: 
  • Pilot study launched
September 2014: 
  • KIT Phase I launched
April 2016: 
  • KIT-M36 Wave 1 fieldwork commences (children aged 36 months)
  • KIT press conference held to announce pilot study results
June 2016: 
  • KIT-M3 Wave 1 fieldwork commences (children aged 3 months)
September 2016: 
  • KIT-M3 Wave 2 fieldwork commences (children aged 6 months)
March 2017: 
  • KIT-M36 Wave 2 fieldwork commences (children aged 48 months)
  • KIT-M3 Wave 3 fieldwork commences (children aged 12 months)
  • KIT press conference held to announce preliminary findings
August 2017: 
  • KIT Phase II launched
March 2018: 
  • KIT-M36 Wave 3 fieldwork commences (children aged 60 months)
  • KIT-M3 Wave 5 fieldwork commences (children aged 24 months)
January 2019: 
  • KIT participates in the research database forum organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Science and Technology Council (or NSTC)
March 2019: 
  • KIT-M3 Wave 6 fieldwork commences (children aged 36 months)
  • KIT-M36 Wave 4 fieldwork commences (children aged 72 months)
April 2019: 
  • KIT press conference jointly held with NSTC
  • KIT-M36 Wave 1 data released (children aged 36 months)
June 2019: 
  • Conference and workshop on the use of Kids in Taiwan: National Longitudinal Study of Child Development and Care (KIT)
February 2020: 
  • School-age child survey postponed and online/telephone interviews offered due to COVID-19
  • KIT-M3 Wave 7 fieldwork commences (children aged 48 months)
  • KIT-M36 Wave 5 fieldwork commences (children in Term 1 of Grade 1)
  • KIT-M3 Wave 1 data released (children aged 3 months)
  • KIT-M3 Wave 2 data released (children aged 6 months)
June 2020: 
  • Both online survey and face-to-face survey used for data collection
August 2020: 
  • KIT Phase III launched
October 2020: 
  • 2020 Conference on Child Development and Family Studies jointly held with the Department of Human Development and Family Studies of NTNU
February 2021:
  • KIT-M36 Wave 2 data released (children aged 48 months)
  • Supplemental sampling of school-age participants launched
  • KIT press release issued
  • KIT-M36 Wave 5 fieldwork commences (children in Term 2 of Grade 1)
  • KIT-M36 Wave 6 fieldwork commences (children in Term 1 of Grade 2)
March 2021:
  • KIT-M3 Wave 7 fieldwork commences (children aged 48 months)
  • KIT-M3 Wave 8 fieldwork commences (children aged 60 months)
  • Press conference jointly held with the NTNU Education Think Tank to announce KIT findings on five-year-old preschool children
April 2021:
  • Supplemental sampling of school-age participants completed
  • Speech given by Prof. Chih-wen Wu at the workshop organized by the Survey Research Data Archive, Academia Sinica
May 2021:
  • Deadline for the school-age child survey extended and multiple survey options offered due to COVID-19
  • Dynamic Survey: COVID-19 Pandemic Questionnaire Wave 1 commences
  • Speech given by Prof. Chien-Ju Chang at the workshop organized by the Survey Research Data Archive, Academia Sinica
June 2021:
  • Dynamic Survey: COVID-19 Pandemic Questionnaire Wave 2 commences
  • Dynamic Survey: COVID-19 Pandemic Questionnaire Wave 3 commences
July 2021:
  • Speech given by Prof. Li-Tuan Chou at the online workshop organized by the Survey Research Data Archive, Academia Sinica
August 2021:
  • Dynamic Survey: COVID-19 Pandemic Questionnaire Wave 4 commences
  • KIT-M3 Wave 3 data released (children aged 12 months)
October 2021:
  • 2021 International Conference on Child Development and Family Studies jointly held with the Department of Human Development and Family Studies of NTNU
December 2021:
  • KIT-M3 Wave 4 data released (children aged 18 months)
January 2022:
  • Implementation of e-vouchers and e-receipts
March 2022:
  • KIT-M3 Wave 9 fieldwork commences (children aged 72 months)
  • KIT-M36 Wave 6 fieldwork commences (children in Term 2 of Grade 2)
  • KIT-M36 Wave 7 fieldwork commences (children in Term 1 of Grade 3)
  • Press conference jointly held with the NTNU Education Think Tank to announce KIT findings on children’s use of digital devices
May 2022:
  • KIT-M36 Wave 3 data released (children aged 60 months)
August 2022:
  • Full implementation of e-vouchers
September 2022:
  • KIT workshop held online
October 2022:
  • 2022 International Conference on Child Development and Family Studies jointly held with the Department of Human Development and Family Studies of NTNU
December 2022:
  • KIT-M3 Wave 5 data released (children aged 24 months)
March 2023:
  • KIT-M3 Wave 10 fieldwork commences (children aged 84 months or in Grade 1)
  • KIT-M36 Wave 7 fieldwork commences (children in Term 2 of Grade 3)
  • KIT-M36 Wave 8 fieldwork commences (children in Term 1 of Grade 4)
  • KIT Viewpoints presented by Dr. Tsung-Ning Huang on YouTube
April 2023:
  • Press conference jointly held with the National Science and Technology Council to announce KIT findings on young children’s emotional ability
May 2023:
  • A keynote speech titled "The Construction, Application, and Prospects of the KIT Database" at the seminare "2023 Early Childhood Education and Care in Taiwan" organized onlin by the Department of Early Childhood Education at Nanhua University
July 2023:
  • A presentation on the current state and future trends of parent-child joint book reading based on KIT data at the 2023 Enhancement Training
  • Two workshops on longitudinal data analysis using KIT as an example organized by the Center for Survey Research, RCHSS, Academia Sinica
August 2023:
  • KIT Phase IV launched
September 2023:
  • A presentation on the practical use of the KIT database at the workshop organized by the Department of Early Childhood Care and Education at Kang Ning University
  • Workshop Series 1 titled “Developmental research design and longitudinal data analysis of KIT” held by the Higher Education Sprout Project of NTNU
October 2023:
  • A presentation on the findings and applications of KIT at Forum 3A during the "2023 Envisioning Education: Dialogue Among International Contexts and Local Practices" conference organized by the College of Education, NTNU, and the National Academy for Educational Research
  • 2023 International Conference on Child Development and Family Studies jointly held with the Department of Child and Family Science of NTNU
November 2023:
  • Introduction to the KIT project and its research ideas at the "Big Data in Education" workshop at Chinese Culture University
December 2023:
  • KIT-M3 Wave 6 data released (children anged 36 months)
  • All KIT data re-released
February 2024:
  • KIT-M3 Wave 10 fieldwork commences (children in Term 2 of Grade 1)
  • KIT-M3 Wave 11 fieldwork commences (children in Term 2 of Grade 2)
  • KIT-M3 Wave 8 fieldwork commences (children in Term 2 of Grade 4)
  • KIT-M3 Wave 9 fieldwork commences (children in Term 2 of Grade 5)
April 2024:
  • Press conference jointly held with the NTNU Education Think Tank to announce KIT findings on the associations between young children's sleep and their development
August 2024:
  • KIT-M36 Wave 4 data released (children aged 72 months)
  • CSR2024 Conference