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Heilmann, John; Miller, Jon F. – Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 2023
Purpose: In the early 1980s, researchers and speech-language pathologists (SLPs) collaborated to develop the Systematic Analysis of Language Transcripts (SALT). Research and development over the ensuing decades has culminated into SALT Solutions, a set of tools to assist SLPs to efficiently complete language sample analysis (LSA) with their…
Descriptors: Sampling, Language Usage, Data Analysis, Data Collection
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Lee, Victor R.; Dubovi, Ilana – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2020
This article reports on an exploratory study of quantitative data use situated in families' management routines while taking care of a child with Type 1 diabetes (T1D). T1D treatment requires frequent measurement and recording of numerical data about blood sugar concentration, nutritional intake, and insulin dosage at the child's home, at school,…
Descriptors: Family Involvement, Diabetes, Child Caregivers, Information Storage
Heslop, Jo; Tamez, Lucia Quintero; Parkes, Jenny – Institute of Education - London, 2021
While violence against children (VAC) has been a long-established global concern, more recently attention has been drawn to how violence occurs in and around schools (VACS) and the role of education in preventing and responding to violence. Whilst awareness about VACS is growing, more robust data are needed to inform policy and practice. Concerns…
Descriptors: Violence, Children, School Violence, Bullying
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Hojnoski, Robin L.; Caskie, Grace I. L.; Gischlar, Karen L.; Key, Jennifer M.; Barry, Amberly; Hughes, Cheyenne L. – Journal of Early Intervention, 2009
The ability to collect, organize graphically, understand, interpret, and use data to make decisions is becoming more central to the role of early childhood practitioners. One consideration in practitioner use of data is the acceptability of the method of data display. The purpose of this study was to explore Head Start teachers' preference for and…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Children, Data Analysis, Teaching Methods
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Lopez, Alejandra M. – Educational Researcher, 2003
Examines data on racial identification from the 2000 Census to document the mixed race population of children in the United States. Using California data as an example, the article considers various methods for tabulating multiple-response race data, noting the impact of each on demographic conclusions. Discusses how federal guidelines on race…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Children, Data Collection, Data Interpretation
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Siau, Keng – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2000
This article presents the concept of knowledge discovery, a process of searching for associations in large volumes of computer data, as an aid to creativity. It then discusses the various techniques in knowledge discovery. Mednick's associative theory of creative thought serves as the theoretical foundation for this research. (Contains…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Computers, Creative Thinking
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Casto, Glendon; White, Karl R. – Early Education and Development, 1993
Describes a series of 16 longitudinal studies conducted by Utah State University on alternative early intervention programs for disabled children, focusing on the intensity of intervention, the age intervention begins, and parent involvement. Reviews factors that gave rise to the studies, research designs and procedures, and data interpretation.…
Descriptors: Children, Data Collection, Data Interpretation, Disabilities
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Doucette-Gates, Ann – Education and Treatment of Children, 2000
This article describes activities to improve the access to cross-agency information systems, including identifying outcome goals and objectives, the populations of concern, needed sources of information, data collection methods, and data utilization. Benefits of establishing cross-agency agreements, common cross-agency definitions, and procedures…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Children, Data Analysis, Data Collection
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Reitman, David; Drabman, Ronald S. – Education and Treatment of Children, 1999
A case study illustrates how the ongoing data-based monitoring of timeout use by parents enhanced the treatment of an 8-year-old boy, referred because of noncompliance in the home. Maintaining the timeout record enabled rapid refinements in the timeout procedure by providing a feedback mechanism to the therapist, identification of the need for…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Case Studies, Children
Sociometrics Corp., Los Altos, CA. – 1997
This Research Archive on Disability in the United States (RADIUS), a database on CD-ROM, contains 19 data sets on the prevalence, incidence, correlates, and consequences of disability in the United States. The 19 data sets are: (1) 1991 National Maternal and Infant Health Follow-Up Survey; (2) National Pediatric Trauma Registry, 1988-1994; (3)…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Data Collection, Data Interpretation
Graue, M. Elizabeth; Walsh, Daniel J.; Ceglowski, Deborah; Dyson, Anne Hass; Fernie, David E.; Kantor, Rebecca; Leavitt, Robin Lynn; Miller, Peggy J.; Ting, Hsueh-Yin – 1998
Studying or finding out about children is exceptionally difficult--intellectually, physically, and emotionally. Physical, social, cognitive, and political distances between adult and the child make their relationship very different from the relationships among adults. This book explains the art and science of doing qualitative research involving…
Descriptors: Adult Child Relationship, Case Studies, Children, Context Effect
Zill, Nicholas; And Others – 1984
The Interagency Conference on Child and Family Statistics was organized around seven groups that were asked to develop specific recommendations for improving the federal statistical database on children and families. This booklet is a report on the recommendations made at the conference. The first part of the report distills and synthesizes the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Agency Cooperation, Children, Coordination
Kids Count--South Dakota, Vermillion. – 1995
The South Dakota Kids Count Project began in 1993 with a grant from the Annie E. Casey Foundation. The goal is to improve the collection of national, state, and local data on the well-being of children in a way that increases awareness of their situation and provides the means to address their needs. South Dakota Kids Count tracks children using…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Abuse, Child Health, Child Welfare