I feel the day-care advantage will not last. Most of the children will catch up with each other and there will be no distinction between home-care and day-care. Moral values are an important part of growing up and in the long run be even more important than cogmitive abilities. How we treat one another takes precidence over brain power.
I don't think that the children's cognitive abilities will differ significantly from grade two to further along in elementary school. As the children become older, there will be more external factors that will influence their test scores, and their cognitive abilities will be more stable.
It would be interesting to find out if these results had an influence on future cognitive ablilities. However, daycare provides an excellent start to a childs' beginning formative years. However, as children interact more and more in a social setting, such as school, other children will eventually catch-up.
I think the reaserchers should test the children again in highschool to really see if tpye of care effects cognitive capabilities, bit I believe that over that time period there would come to be very little difference between the two considering all the other factors that enter into the picture as children get older, including having future career aspirations to work harder for.
I don't think that the daycare advantage will last. As children grow older, they come into contact with many things that will influence their cognitive abilities including friends, alcohol, drugs, television, etc. All of these factors can influence a child's desire to learn and therefore affect the development of their cognitive abilities.
The positive effects of daycare will last for years to come. The skills attained will leave the children open to positive attention from teachers, their self esteem will be higher and an ideal setting for the children to reach their full potential will be formed. These children should be followed through highschool to see if the daycare experience effected which children graduated.
Did all children have great experiences from day-care? As a majority children improved in the study, but it may be interesting to see if the children who did not like day-care if it would have influenced their abilities in years to come. As for everyone else's comments I agree with most, that outside experience, social events, peers etc, will all be factors in abilities later on , so it would be harder to determine if the day care effects would be a factor in later years.
There are different aspects to day care. The social experience and skills that most children receive at day care will remain for years to come. Specific skills such as math and verbal abilities may not last as long since other external factors will affect this type of learning as the child grows.
Yes, I think that they should be followed through elementary school because results in these children did not become present until second grade. Therefore, it would only be beneficial to continue the study and see if there were further positive findings.
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