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The Challenges of Intersectionality: Researching Difference in Physical Education
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Flintoff, A.; Fitzgerald, H.; Scraton, S. – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2008
Researching the intersection of class, race, gender, sexuality and disability raises many issues for educational research. Indeed, Maynard (2002, 33) has recently argued that "difference is one of the most significant, yet unresolved, issues for feminist and social thinking at the beginning of the twentieth century". This paper reviews…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Educational Research, Sexuality, Gender Differences
Infant Temperament and Subject Loss in a Habituation Procedure.
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Wachs, Theodore D.; Smitherman, Colleen H. – Child Development, 1985
A total of 114 infants at three age levels (11, 18, and 28 weeks) were rated by their mothers on a termperament questionnaire and subjected to a habituation procedure. Results suggest that subject loss in habituation studies may be the result of nonrandom individual difference factors and not just the result of temporary fluctuations in state.…
Descriptors: Habituation, Individual Differences, Infants, Personality
Individual Differences in Voice Quality Perception.
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Kreiman, Jody; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1992
Sixteen listeners (10 expert, 6 naive) judged the dissimilarity of pairs of voices drawn from pathological and normal populations. Only parameters that showed substantial variability were perceptually salient across listeners. Results suggest that traditional means of assessing listener reliability in voice perception tasks may not be appropriate.…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Individual Differences, Interrater Reliability, Perception
Reconceptualizing Constructive Play: A Review of the Empirical Literature.
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Christie, James F.; Johnsen, E. Peter – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1987
Summarizes data on developmental patterns in constructive play--play in which children use play materials to make something. Reviews knowledge about developmental correlates and effects of constructive play behavior and examines methodological and theoretical issues. (NH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Individual Differences, Play, Research Methodology
On the Empirical Identification of Dimensions for Cross-Cultural Comparisons.
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Leung, Kwok; Bond, Michael Harris – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1989
Discusses methodological problems in the use of ecological analysis and pancultural analysis in cross-cultural analysis. Uses a case study to compare the use of cross-cultural analysis and a new procedure based on a within-culture standardization procedure. (FMW)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Cultural Traits
A Retrospective Examination of Interactional Behaviors Viewed as Experimentally Nonsignificant.
Prelock, Patricia A. – Journal of Childhood Communication Disorders, 1990
Ethnographic techniques were applied to a post hoc examination of children's incidental behaviors during a metalinguistic intervention procedure--behaviors ignored in the original experimental design. The reflective and qualitative nature of ethnography was used to account for the 12 phonologically impaired 4-year-olds' varied perceptions of…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Ethnography, Individual Differences, Interaction