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Carlos Valiente; Tracy L. Spinrad; Nancy Eisenberg; Brian Ray – Journal of School Choice, 2024
Studies exploring homeschooling typically focus on comparing homeschoolers to conventionally schooled peers on a range of academic outcomes. Largely absent from the literature are within-group studies designed to identify experiences that facilitate (or hinder) homeschoolers' academic outcomes. The aim of this paper is to describe a heuristic…
Descriptors: Heuristics, Models, Home Schooling, Academic Achievement
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Andersen, Susan L.; Navalta, Carryl P. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2011
Our aim is to present a working model that may serve as a valuable heuristic to predict enduring effects of drugs when administered during development. Our primary tenet is that a greater understanding of neurodevelopment can lead to improved treatment that intervenes early in the progression of a given disorder and prevents symptoms from…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Children, Brain, Drug Therapy
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Yeates, Keith Owen; Bigler, Erin D.; Dennis, Maureen; Gerhardt, Cynthia A.; Rubin, Kenneth H.; Stancin, Terry; Taylor, H. Gerry; Vannatta, Kathryn – Psychological Bulletin, 2007
The authors propose a heuristic model of the social outcomes of childhood brain disorder that draws on models and methods from both the emerging field of social cognitive neuroscience and the study of social competence in developmental psychology/psychopathology. The heuristic model characterizes the relationships between social adjustment, peer…
Descriptors: Models, Neurological Impairments, Social Cognition, Psychopathology