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Some Practical Guidelines for Measuring Youth's Race/Ethnicity and Socioeconomic Status.
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Entwisle, Doris R.; Astone, Nan Marie – Child Development, 1994
Suggests that recent social changes and trends make it imperative to include demographics of all kinds in research on child development. Proposes guidelines to help child development researchers procure demographic information from their study population. Provides specific questions that may help researchers devise demographic indicators, and…
Descriptors: Biographical Inventories, Child Development, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Measuring Socioeconomic Status in Studies of Child Development.
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Hauser, Robert M. – Child Development, 1994
Comments on the ideas presented by Entwisle and Astone in this issue. Suggests that to produce sound measurements of children's socioeconomic background requires a substantial investment in coding, data collection, and management. Nevertheless, a standard set of racial-ethnic and socioeconomic variables, no matter how well measured, cannot serve…
Descriptors: Biographical Inventories, Child Development, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Commentary: Interpretive Bias and Behavioral Genetic Research.
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Walker, Elaine; Emory, Eugene – Child Development, 1985
Written in response to an article (Horn, 1983) that appeared in special Developmental Behavioral Genetics section of CHILD DEVELOPMENT (Volume 54), this commentary (1) notes some issues concerning Horn's analysis and interpretation of data and (2) highlights the potential for interpretational bias in behavior genetics research. (Author/BE)
Descriptors: Adopted Children, Bias, Data Interpretation, Intelligence Quotient
Bias? Indeed!
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Horn, Joseph M. – Child Development, 1985
In this rebuttal to Walker and Emory's commentary (also in this issue), Horn argues that the issue of the influence of environment on the average IQ of adopted children was well discussed in his article (Volume 54 of CHILD DEVELOPMENT). (BE)
Descriptors: Adopted Children, Bias, Data Interpretation, Intelligence Quotient
From Individual Differences to Dynamic Pathways of Development.
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Fischer, Kurt W.; Pare-Blagoev, Juliana – Child Development, 2000
Suggests ways to use dynamic systems analysis to illuminate the pluralistic and multidimensional model described by Larivee, Normandeau, and Parent (2000). Issues discussed include the characteristics of developmental transitions, such as hysteresis; nature of growth processes, such as hierarchical development or predator-prey interactions; and…
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Cognitive Development, Data Analysis
Effect Size, Practical Importance, and Social Policy for Children.
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McCartney, Kathleen; Rosenthal, Robert – Child Development, 2000
Shares three ideas concerning how to evaluate the practical importance of developmental findings to make them more useful to policymakers: (1) statistical significance tests need to be accompanied by effect size estimates; (2) meta-analyses are helping in using all existing data when examining issues involved in policy debates; and (3) researchers…
Descriptors: Child Development, Data Analysis, Developmental Psychology, Effect Size
Depending on the Kindness of Strangers: Current National Data Initiatives and Developmental Research.
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Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne; Berlin, Lisa J.; Leventhal, Tama; Fuligni, Allison Sidle – Child Development, 2000
Reviews current large-scale, longitudinal studies focusing on children. Describes the data collected, including child outcomes, process-oriented information on child-parent interactions, child care quality, parental mental health, family violence, fathering, employment patterns, and community characteristics. Notes that several studies incorporate…
Descriptors: Child Development, Community Characteristics, Data Collection, Developmental Psychology