Research Manuscripts critic

Research Manuscripts critic

Executive function and Low birth weight

Executive function (EF) is a mental process that helps people to focus attention, recall instructions, plan, and carry out several tasks successfully. As such, when children are represented with the chance to develop EF and self-regulation abilities, they gain lifelong benefits, and so is the society. Thus, the skills are critical for learning and development as they enable positive behavior and allow us to make healthy choices in life. Children are not born with these abilities but have the potential to develop them. Therefore, the study seeks to compare EF in children born with low birth weight (LBW) and preterm births with a group of infants born full-term. Specifically focusing on the differences in EFF elements and DMQ 18, between children born full tern and light LBW and Heavy LBW. Furthermore, the study shows whether the DMQ 18 and EF components are related to the groups. And whether there is a difference in EI enrollment for children born heavy LWB and Light LWB.

The study is essential as it allows people to identify deficits in EF and the strength of children at an early stage. The study was conducted through a high risk follow up clinic. The research established that the full-term group scored significantly higher than both the LWB groups on the EF elements that include plan, attention, inhibit, and working memory. As such, the study recommends the urgency to create measures of EF with specificity and sensitivity to identify early EF discrepancies as well as strengths in all infants in these groups.

Decision: Revise the manuscript

The journal is essential to leaders as it examines the differences in EF among different infant groups. As such, the study provides recommendations on how the leader can identify the EF discrepancy in their children and work to improve it. Moreover, the study establishes that there is a significant difference in the EF of full-term births in comparison with Light LWB and LWB. As such helping future researchers to focus attention on the development of EF of the LWB. Furthermore, the study will contribute to future research as a theoretical foundation.

The study ideas are well represented and logic. Reading the journal, I found it easy to read and follow. This is because it has developed the appropriate research paper methodology. Likewise, the study hypothesis is well supported in the literature review. However, the literature review takes the most substantial portion of the research, and as such, it should be summarized. Besides, this shows that the study overused other research’s work to base its argument.

The research used the right sample size (N=140) 99 representing LWB while 41 describing the full-term birth. Furthermore, the data collected is from a reliable and valid source, which strengthens the study. As such, the study can also be replicated by future researchers and get the same results; therefore, the study can be generalized. However, the study does not provide enough details of the methodology. For instance, BSID-III was used to assessing EF components in children from six to eight months while the sample size included three months to three years. Thus the measurement method was inconsistent with the sample size. On the other hand, the study used descriptive statistics in data analysis.

The data of the study has been represented in graphs and tables, which can be easy to understand. The study uses mean values for Data, which is described in the tables as a range. Moreover, most tables have three columns indicating the outcomes in assessment for the three children groups being investigated. For instance, the demographic information based on birth weight categories show results for all the three types of groups evaluated in separate columns. However, the study only relied on one type of data presentation. As such, the research needs to use graphs, pie charts, and histograms, which are more precise and easier to understand.

In conclusion, the study should make changes to minor mistakes, as indicated.

Developmental Trajectories in Literacy and Mathematics from Kindergarten to Grade Eight: Differences by Maternal Reports of Elevated Depressive Symptoms by Monica Yudron.

According to England & sim, 2009, 25% of children under the age of 18 live with depressed mothers. Which the study believes impacts on the child’s cognitive abilities. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to evaluate how the cognitive development trajectories of children from the age of five to age thirteen vary for those children exposed or not to maternal depressive symptoms in kindergarten. And across the developmental period between kindergarten and eighth grade. The study found that at the kindergarten level, pupils with mothers with low of fewer depressive signs exhibited a higher initial level of literacy development and mathematics, which continue up to grade eight. This is in comparison with pupils whose mothers reported many incidents of higher depressions signs, which showed a more elevated level of literacy.

As such, this study is crucial as it shows the relationship between the mother’s depression and their children’s cognitive development. Therefore it will be useful for future studies seek to explore ways to improve the cognitive ability for those students living with depressed mothers at some point in life. As such, the study will be helpful for future research as a work of reference.

The study has reviewed pertinent literature on the problem. Moreover, the writing is clear and concise and supports the study’s sentiments.

The study used data which was derived from an early childhood longitudinal study-kindergarten cohort in 19998. Furthermore, the research in the analysis used non-missing variables in the investigation. As such, the study originality is compromised by the use of this data. Besides, the study choosing to work with favorable data renders it invalid and unreliable. For instance, the original research had a sample size of 22666 students selected by school administrators, while the study chose to use only 12719 as its sample size.

Similarly, the study does not provide more information on the methods of measurements.

The study used tables, histograms, scatterplots, and graphs in representing its data. This is a clear, concise, and easy to understand methods for data presentation.

In conclusion, the study established that due to maternal depressions preference among the general population and the continuous effect on child outcomes. It is vital to create a dual intervention supporting the mother and the decreasing impacts on a child’s cognitive ability and development.