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Fabes, Richard A.; Martin, Carol Lynn; Hanish, Laura D.; Updegraff, Kimberly A. – Child Development, 2000
Identifies the forces that influence how developmental research is prioritized and evaluated and how these influences are changing at entry into the new millennium. Considers the developmental researcher in context, suggesting that there will be increasing pressure to use new criteria when assessing the significance of twenty-first-century…
Descriptors: Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Evaluation Criteria, Influences

Smith, Peter K.; Vollstedt, Ralph – Child Development, 1985
Five common play criteria were applied by subjects to a videotape of nursery school children's behavior, rated separately for occurrence of play. The idea that play is best predicted by a combination of criteria was supported by the finding that, when more criteria occurred simultaneously, the more certainly a judgment of play was implied.…
Descriptors: Criteria, Day Care, Definitions, Early Childhood Education