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School attainment of children who have been in care
Author(s) -
ESSEN JULIET,
LAMBERT LYDIA,
HEAD JENNY
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
child: care, health and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.832
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1365-2214
pISSN - 0305-1862
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2214.1976.tb00257.x
Subject(s) - test (biology) , child care , medicine , reading (process) , psychology , educational attainment , developmental psychology , family medicine , paleontology , political science , law , economics , biology , economic growth
SUMMARY The paper presents data from the National Child Development Study which examine the relationship between being in care and school attainment. Children in care had lower test scores in both reading and mathematics than those never in care. The children who were not in care until after the age of seven had higher test scores than those first in care earlier, although before being received into care the former group already had lower scores than the children who were never in care. Between the ages of seven and eleven the progress of those who were in care before seven, but not of those only in care after seven, deteriorated relative to that of the children who were never in care. These results suggest that the relatively low attainment of children in care is associated with factors other than, or additional to, the experience of care itself.