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Krakowski, Claire-Sara; Poirel, Nicolas; Vidal, Julie; Roëll, Margot; Pineau, Arlette; Borst, Grégoire; Houdé, Olivier – Developmental Psychology, 2016
To act and think, children and adults are continually required to ignore irrelevant visual information to focus on task-relevant items. As real-world visual information is organized into structures, we designed a feature visual search task containing 3-level hierarchical stimuli (i.e., local shapes that constituted intermediate shapes that formed…
Descriptors: Children, Young Adults, Visual Discrimination, Age Differences
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Huizinga, Mariette; Burack, Jacob A.; Van der Molen, Maurits W. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2010
The focus of this study was the developmental pattern of the ability to shift attention between global and local levels of hierarchical stimuli. Children aged 7 years and 11 years and 21-year-old adults were administered a task (two experiments) that allowed for the examination of 1) the direction of attention to global or local stimulus levels;…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Stimuli, Children, Young Adults
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Eacott, Scott – International Journal of Educational Management, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether the demographic variables of tenure and functional track have a moderating effect on the strategic leadership of school leaders. Design/methodology/approach: Using a conceptual framework developed by the researcher, a static/cross-sectional questionnaire-based study on a convenience…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Principals, Employment Patterns
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Saltmarsh, Sue – Critical Studies in Education, 2008
This paper considers the discursive production of violence in the context of educational markets. Drawing on a larger study of sexually violent incidents that occurred in an elite private boys' school in Sydney, Australia, in 2000, the paper examines disciplinary traditions and communicative practices surrounding these events. Insights from Michel…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Single Sex Schools, Private Schools, Competitive Selection