SECCYD showed that children
from disadvantaged
backgrounds benefitted from
high quality daycare.
SECYD - day care leads to improvements in cognitive
and language development (up to age 4)
If a childs development is slow at 18
months then high quality daycare
was beneficial.
EPPE - a child who started
childcare before the age of 3
had better intellectual
development, sociability,
independence and
concentration.
By school age a child who had experienced
day care would show more independence and
less anxiety with regard to social behaviour.
Disadvantages for the child
When a child reaches 4.5 years
old the children who had
spent more time in child care
centres tended to show more
disobedient and aggressive
behaviour tahn those with less
experience of child care.
Full time daycare was no
better than part time.
Belski and Pleuss 2011 - low
quality daycare experinces
predict later problems in the
child such as them ebing
impulsive and taking risks as
well as externalising behaviour.
Good-quality daycare
Good adult-child verbal interactions
Adult and child sharing activities
Knowledge and
understanding of the
curriculum by the staff
Encouraging
challenging
activities for
children
Encourage parental involvement
Use discipline and
behaviour policies so
that staff and
children rationalise
and talk through
behaviour
Poor-quality daycare
Poor children to
adult ratio
Failure to promote
activities and leave
the child
unmotivated
causing a slow down
in development
Poor communication leaving the
child confused and unable to learn
Li et al 2013: Timing of high quality daycare.
Was interested in the effect of
high and low quality daycare
on infants and pre-schoolers.
To look at a combination of
quality of day care and
whether high or low qaulity
care are either of the periods
made a difference.
Large sample, mostly US, limited generalisability
Using secondary data strengthed their findings
Belski and Pluess 2011
Negatively emotional
children are more
affected by child care
quality than less
difficult children.
Looked at children age 15
to see whether the
negatively emotional child
was more likely to show
externalising behaviour. If
they had low quality day
care they were more likely
to show externalising
behaviour, but not more
risk taking or impulsivity.
They felt a diathesis stress model
explained results because there
was an underlying temperament
and then the environment acting
on the temperament to give the
behaviour and characteristics.