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Health, Sports & Psychology
One minute methods - validity and reliability
Discover how researchers ensure that their measurements are both valid and reliable.
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One minute methods - cross sectional and longitudinal designs
Discover how researchers compare different age groups of children at the same time, as in the Elenbaas and colleagues study, or compare how the same children grow up over time.
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One minute methods - case studies
Discover how case studies, like the one Georges-Henri Luquet conducted on his own daughter’s drawings, can give us a rich description of development.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
One minute methods - computer simulations
Discover how researchers build computer simulations to explore how children learn.
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One minute methods - meta analysis
Discover how meta-analyses can help researchers see the bigger picture that no one study alone can show.
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One minute methods - ethics
Discover the ethical principles researchers need to consider when conducting research with children.
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One minute methods - experiments
Discover what natural experiments, like the Dutch famine, and controlled experiments can teach us about child development.
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One minute methods - correlations
Discover how researchers use relationships between factors to understand child development.
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One minute methods - familiarisation
Discover how the familiarisation procedure, as used by Kisilevsky and colleagues, takes advantage of one thing young infants are really good at – getting bored.
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Heroes and villains: the presentation of the outlaw in early twentieth-century American folk music
This article will consider how the figure of the outlaw is presented in early twentieth-century American folk music. What is constant, and what changes? What lies behind these strands of imitation and innovation?
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D-Day, the Battle of Normandy, and the British Military Nursing Services
Operation Overlord, the invasion of Europe known as D-Day, began on 6 June 1944. 12,000 British military nurses served during World War II, many of these during the aftermath of D-Day and the Battle of Normandy. In this article, explore what it was like to be a nurse at this time.
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Euro 24: Innovation and Trends in Modern Football
As Germany gears up to host the men’s Euros this summer, Steph Doehler explores developments in modern football and their impact on Euro 2024.