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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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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 A mother's baby talk isn't easier to understand Fast food restaurants lure kids with ads, toys...and it works Study: Climate change negatively affects birth weight Wild bonobo speech resembles human baby talk
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#1. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
The toddlers with stopwatches did best "Besides, I was anxious to take the wheel, the man in pink pyjamas showing himself a hopeless duffer at the business." - Marlow
This is common sense stuff. Read to your children, teach them, challenge them. Acting white? You bet! "Besides, I was anxious to take the wheel, the man in pink pyjamas showing himself a hopeless duffer at the business." - Marlow
That's a good one! We had pre-term twins, and they didn't seem any less patient than normal. Unlike their older sister, who just couldn't wait to start wrecking every car and truck in the family when she turned 17.
Analysis of gestation length in an obstetric population of indigenous African women revealed a mean pregnancy duration of 274.8 days, which is similar to values recorded in women of African descent elsewhere, but about 1 week less than what generally has been reported in women of European ancestry and Japanese women. Factors associated with lower pregnancy duration among these women include increasing maternal age and gravidity, and the birth of a male infant. It is concluded that mean pregnancy duration in Nigerian women is shorter than the 280 days normally used in obstetric calculations. The consistent finding of a shorter length of gestation in these and other black women suggests earlier maturity of the fetoplacental unit. Earlier institution of antepartum fetal monitoring in women of African descent, particularly women > 30 years old and those with high parity, may reduce the risks of fetal morbidity and mortality attributable to postmaturity in their offspring. The whole thing is just another scam to siphon off more gibsmedats's for the bantus. "Besides, I was anxious to take the wheel, the man in pink pyjamas showing himself a hopeless duffer at the business." - Marlow
If "indigenous African women" means "bush women", then I doubt if the researchers could have estimated date of conception very accurately. You should have seen the day shift nurse's face when, after seeing that my wife's twins had been born the night before, and asking her what she named them, I answered, "Yoshalonda Shaquila and Shalakka Maleeka". Without any hesitation she replied, "I don't know why those people name their babies that way."
Probably a disparate impact lawsuit in there somewhere.
"Besides, I was anxious to take the wheel, the man in pink pyjamas showing himself a hopeless duffer at the business." - Marlow
The toddler is told to wait 60 seconds before taking the raisin.
#2. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
"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."
#3. To: Dakmar (#1)
The toddlers with stopwatches did best
#4. To: StraitGate (#3)
Duration of human singleton pregnancies in Ibadan, Nigeria.
#5. To: Dakmar (#4)
#6. To: StraitGate (#5)
#7. To: Dakmar, StraitGate (#2)
a better test than a raisin and a cup
-Alex Kurtagic
#8. To: All (#6)
And everything they determine about us is no doubt sent through 20 computers for weaponizing purposes. Researchers say their findings are important for identifying and correcting learning problems among preterm children.
#9. To: X-15 (#7)
LOL, but why is the white child celebrating while the black child does all the work?
"Besides, I was anxious to take the wheel, the man in pink pyjamas showing himself a hopeless duffer at the business." - Marlow
#10. To: Dakmar (#9)
The little Sambo is the observing lab assistant, the White Genius is saying "Behold! I will Own This Town!!"
-Alex Kurtagic
#11. To: X-15 (#10)
Good answer!
"Besides, I was anxious to take the wheel, the man in pink pyjamas showing himself a hopeless duffer at the business." - Marlow
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