Today care or not to day care that is the question, an article based on a descriptive research. Descriptive studies are used to describe an individual or group through systematic observation. The case studies look at one individual to reveal something about people in general. The article also describes surveys. Which describes a population by looking at various cases it explains physiological states that would be difficult to observe directly. The individuals in this study was randomly selected where everyone had equal chance of participating.
The study took children from different groups and observed how they interacted while in child care full time and part time and how high quality child care centers effect children. The researchers wanted …show more content…
They chose these participants due to the fact that in order for researchers to get accurate results they would have to start observing at infancy until the child was middle aged. By doing this researchers can tell if childcare options effect the children by the time they have reached adulthood. They decided to break the study into two parts.
The first study looked at the children that attended high quality center from infancy. They were divided into infant and toddler nursery. There was 16 infants in total and the room was filled with stimulated toys, sunken water beds, slopes and slides. The toddler room had an outdoor play area, the ratio for the infant room was 1:4 and toddler room 1:5. The teachers well educated in early childhood education with Masters Degrees and positive attitudes. The parents of these children was also educated middle class adults who lived in two parent households and was in some type of medical field related …show more content…
The study is inadequate because it does not give anything to compare the findings to. They only chose children form middle class where parents were well educated so it gave obvious reasons to why these children would have high ratings in physical, social, emotional and educational factors as teens or adults. The study did not persuade me to believe that these children turned out to have better grades and less depressed were due to attending high quality childcare but, it proved by having parents who were middle income and were well educated was apparent to have children of the same
The study took children from different groups and observed how they interacted while in child care full time and part time and how high quality child care centers effect children. The researchers wanted …show more content…
They chose these participants due to the fact that in order for researchers to get accurate results they would have to start observing at infancy until the child was middle aged. By doing this researchers can tell if childcare options effect the children by the time they have reached adulthood. They decided to break the study into two parts.
The first study looked at the children that attended high quality center from infancy. They were divided into infant and toddler nursery. There was 16 infants in total and the room was filled with stimulated toys, sunken water beds, slopes and slides. The toddler room had an outdoor play area, the ratio for the infant room was 1:4 and toddler room 1:5. The teachers well educated in early childhood education with Masters Degrees and positive attitudes. The parents of these children was also educated middle class adults who lived in two parent households and was in some type of medical field related …show more content…
The study is inadequate because it does not give anything to compare the findings to. They only chose children form middle class where parents were well educated so it gave obvious reasons to why these children would have high ratings in physical, social, emotional and educational factors as teens or adults. The study did not persuade me to believe that these children turned out to have better grades and less depressed were due to attending high quality childcare but, it proved by having parents who were middle income and were well educated was apparent to have children of the same