Question

You are to read and review/critique a scholarly journal article on a topic in child psychology/child development "GENDER" The article must be primary research(i.e., not a literature review, review article itself, magazine/newspaper, blog, etc.) The appropriateness of the article, written expression and reflective critique will be assessed.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3131694/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3747736/

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00513341/document

At least a page worth's and should be cited

Suggested questions to consider:

Was there a large enough sample?

What research model did they use?

What would you have used?

Is this research valid?

It is truly testing what it is meant to be testing?

What did the authors conclude?

Do you agree with their conclusions?

Is this research useful to clinicians?

What did you think of this journal article?

What new learning can you take from this article that applies to your own life?

Answer 1

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scholarly journal article on Gender effects in children’s development and education

Was there a large enough sample? yes. Around 800 students in all

What research model did they use? Interventional research model was used where a lot of experiments were conducted

What would you have used? I would have used associational (correlational, causal-comparative) or interventional

Is this research valid? Absolutely it's valid - It's given some amazing findings.

It is truly testing what it is meant to be testing? Yes it is

What did the authors conclude?

Exactly quoting the article " The three research questions which guided the study were all answered in favour of similarity between boys and girls within and across cultures as follows:

1. There were no statistically significant differences (at an alpha level of .05) between boys and girls conceptual acquisition in the domain of astronomy and Earth science.

2. Boys and girls follow similar trends in their cosmological development.

3. The patterns of knowledge acquisition, cognitive development, and conceptual change, are similar for boys and girls across cultures and ethnic groups.

Do you agree with their conclusions? Yes as per the study conducted by them over 800 samples which is quite good to draw a result

Is this research useful to clinicians? Yes it is as i said 800 is a good sample size to draw any conclusions

What did you think of this journal article? There is remarkable similarity among the three phases -- conceptual organisation – intuitive, cultural and scientific – within and across cultures, ethnicities and genders. Therefore it's safe to predict that whether the child comes from India, USA or China we can expect similar results.

What new learning can you take from this article that applies to your own life? Gender equality plays an essential role to get true results like the one mentioned above.

The Longitudnal research study in Piagetian research tradition with aim of finding if gender influences children's power of ideas and concepts acquisition ran from 1987 to 2000. The cross cultural study was conducted on two contrasting cultures- China and New Zealand ( NZ). The six surveys and two follow up surveys with control group covered all main areas for children cosmologies like motion of Earth, Sun and Moon, concepts of time and gravity, habitation and identity of Earth etc. The questions and the interview framework were designed to maximize flexibility to permit children of age range 2-12 to reproduce their ideas and concepts .

The Research suffered unexpected loss of sample drop in longitudnal study and by the time of follow-up surveys number of accessible sample children had dropped to 82 and 89 respectively ( for each survey)- the size which cannot be said to be enough considreing this massive research study.

The study revealed no statistically siginificant difference between boys and girls concept acquistion power and patter of knowledge acquisition, cognitive development, and conceptual change are found to be similar for boys an girls studied.

A proper research method has been followed, Solomon's four group Design has been followed in the study; average Cohen's k values of 0.89 ( Blown and Bryce (2006) has been determined and it along with several other factors indicate that the research is valid.

Research did test what it meant to test, however the findings could have altered with a larger and consitent sample size.The useful journal article however could be of good use to clinicians.