Higher levels of inattention at age seven linked with lower GCSE grades

School pupils studying for their GCSE examinations
30 Apr 2015 20:00:00.000
New research has shown that children who display increasing levels of inattention at the age of seven are at risk of worse academic outcomes in their GCSE examinations.

Researchers at the Universities of Nottingham and Bristol studied more than 11,000 children as part of the research which was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and is published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

The findings of the research have a range of implications for parents, teachers and clinicians.
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