Background: There is growing interest in identifying changes in ways of practice associated with the growth of professional expertise. Research on highly experienced or expert teachers and therapists (i.e. occupational, physical and behavioural therapists) can provide insights into how they approach practice, providing guidance for new…

Discusses the suitability of randomization tests when working with a nonrandom sample. Offers a rationale for the noninferential use of statistical tests. (JOW)

Two teachers comment in separate articles on the nature of research and on their views of a paper considering scientific validity. (RK)

The purpose of this paper is to point out the importance of sampling considerations and to illustrate the kinds of effect which can be caused by difficulties in sampling by examining three different reports of research. (Author/RK)

The present paper attempts to consider the physical education teacher's role in terms of (a) students' expectations across the years of teacher training; (b) how pupils see the role of the physical education teacher; and (c) the perceptions (and possible reinforcing influences) of classroom colleagues. (Author)

The present research again demonstrates the strong link between social class background and early leaving, but, interestingly, when stated leaving preference was controlled for, no relationship between social class background and conceptions of school was detected. (Author)

The aim of our investigation was to see whether the previous findings of consistent social class differences in language usage held good when writing and not speech was the mode of communication and a more rigorous control was exercised over the influence of essay topic upon language. (Author)

Examines three reliability characteristics of the Harris revision of the Goodenough "Draw-a-man" Test when used with five-year-old school entrants. (Author/RK)

An investigation was carried out to ascertain how 700 children aged seven to 15 (half boys and half girls), acquired the ability to define certain moral concepts, how they decided on whether an action was right or wrong, and what influenced the acquisitional process. (Author)

The investigation described here was carried out in the hope that some kind of classification of children's early written English could be found which would help them to learn sentence skills more effeciently. (Author/RK)

A national sample of pupils in multiracial schools answered questions about their actual and desired friendship choices. The sample comprised 1288 pupils in the second and fourth years of junior schools and 3012 pupils in the second and fourth years of secondary schools. (Author)

The present report is concerned with making comparisions between the nature and range of worries recorded by students at a British university and those indicated by New Zealand students, as well as with identifying associated variables such as examination success. (Author)

This research note reports an investigation into the relationship tetween date of birth and early performance at school and especially into whether there were more poor achievers'' born during the summer months than in other months. (Author)

Concepts and methods suggested by cognitive psychology and recent experimental studies of the perception of duration have been employed in this research of judgments of historical duration by children aged between 8 and 15 years. Results indicate a developmental sequence in forms of historical temporal awareness. (Author/RK)

Ten boys and girls in a nursery class, who were matched in age and in nursery experience, were each observed for a complete school day. All of their responses and activities were categorized and analysed in relation to their social class and intellectual and verbal ability. (Author/RK)