ABSTRACT
Throughout the discussion we have used the terms advantaged and disadvantaged to refer to the children in the selected groups. It is imporrant to remember, however, that at the time of selection the individual children in the study were 3 years old and there was no evidence to show that as individuals they were either at advantage or disadvantage within education, for they had not yet started in the infants' school. Nor was there any justification for predicting from general observations of these 3-year-olds that they would respond differently to their experiences in school.
