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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
Thomas, C. A. – Journal of Early and Intensive Behavior Intervention, 2004
The very fact that behavior analysts have so carefully analyzed the speaker in terms of maintaining variables, but disregard the listener's behavior as broadly "receptive" unless the listener vocalizes (then applying the operants of the speaker until the listener, stops vocalizing) seems to be missing the point of Skinner's original analysis in…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Verbal Stimuli, Verbal Communication, Listening Skills

Shonkoff, Jack P. – Child Development, 2000
Discusses how child development research, social policy design, and human service delivery for children and families reflect three separate yet related cultures. Argues that transmitting knowledge from the academy to social policy and practice could be facilitated by a simple taxonomy differentiating established knowledge from both reasonable…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Early Intervention
Heller, Kurt A., Ed.; Monks, Franz J., Ed.; Sternberg, Robert J., Ed.; Subotnik, Rena F., Ed. – 2000
This volume presents 59 chapters on research and development in giftedness and talent from an international perspective. This second edition includes 80 percent new material and incorporates three fundamental changes from the previous edition: perspectives from scholars in related fields, new scholarship emerging in the late 1990s on talent…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academically Gifted, Child Development, Comparative Education