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Title: Raisin test can forecast toddler's academic ability
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Published: Nov 19, 2015
Author: Brooks Hays
Post Date: 2015-11-19 21:21:10 by Tatarewicz
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Views: 414
Comments: 11

COVENTRY, England, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- A simple self-control test involving a raisin and a plastic cup can accurately predict a toddler's future academic achievement.

For the test, a 20-month old child is given a raisin covered by an overturned see-through cup. The toddler is told to wait 60 seconds before taking the raisin.

Researchers at the University of Warwick in England found toddlers born prematurely were least likely to exhibit patience, and regularly took the raisin before the allotted time was up. By age eight, those same children were more likely to be underperforming academically relative to their full-term peers.

The researchers' paper was published this week in the Journal of Pediatrics.

"An easy, five-minute raisin game task represents a promising new tool for follow-up assessments to predict attention regulation and learning in preterm and term born children," senior study author Dieter Wolke, a psychology professor at the University of Warwick, said in a press release. "The results also point to potential innovative avenues to early intervention after preterm birth."

The newly analyzed data was sourced from an ongoing longitudinal study in Germany that began in 1985. The study involves 558 children, half of whom were born preterm and half full-term.

Seven years after the self-control test, the same children's attention spans were tested and measured by a team of psychologists. Standardized tests measured the children's performance in math, reading, spelling and writing.

The earlier a child was born before full-term, the lower their self-control score as a toddler; the lower the self control score, the more likely the child was to struggle at school.

Previous studies suggest such achievement gaps aren't permanent, and can be narrowed with various interventions. Researchers say their findings are important for identifying and correcting learning problems among preterm children. Like Us on Facebook for more stories from UPI.com Related UPI Stories

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"An easy, five-minute raisin game task represents a promising new tool for follow-up assessments to predict attention regulation and learning in preterm and term born children," senior study author Dieter Wolke, a psychology professor at the University of Warwick, said in a press release. "The results also point to potential innovative avenues to early intervention after preterm birth."

This is common sense stuff. Read to your children, teach them, challenge them.

Acting white? You bet!

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#7. To: Dakmar, StraitGate (#2)

a better test than a raisin and a cup

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#9. To: X-15 (#7)

LOL, but why is the white child celebrating while the black child does all the work?

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#10. To: Dakmar (#9)

The little Sambo is the observing lab assistant, the White Genius is saying "Behold! I will Own This Town!!"

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Good answer!

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