Description
Book SynopsisThis monograph is an edited collection of chapters within the domainof developmental methodology that collectively share the following goals.First, this monograph provides updated and comprehensive, yet also accessible and brief, summaries of our current understanding of key methodologies used in developmental science.Second, this monograph describes how our current understanding can be further leveraged to advance understanding of human development. Third, this monograph identifies shortcomings in our understanding of developmental methodology in order to provide a roadmap for future methodological advances. Fourth, this monograph aims to organize developmental methodology as a subdiscipline within developmental science.The chapters of this monograph were selected to identify major themes of developmental methodology, broadly defined to encompass issues of design, analysis, and research progression. Besides covering a wide range of topics, chapters were selected that (a) represent act
Table of ContentsCONTENTS
I. DEVELOPMENTAL METHODOLOGY AS A CENTRAL SUBDISCIPLINE OF DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE..... 7
Noel A. Card
II. MORE THAN JUST CONVENIENT: THE SCIENTIFIC MERITS OF HOMOGENEOUS CONVENIENCE SAMPLES..... 13
Justin Jager, Diane L. Putnick, and Marc H. Bornstein
III. FROM SMALL TO BIG: METHODS FOR INCORPORATING LARGE SCALE DATA INTO DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE..... 31
Pamela E. Davis-Kean and Justin Jager
IV. DEVELOPMENTS IN THE ANALYSIS OF LONGITUDINAL DATA..... 46
Kevin J. Grimm, Pega Davoudzadeh, and Nilam Ram
V. DESIGN-BASED APPROACHES FOR IMPROVING MEASUREMENT IN DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE..... 67
Johnathan Rush and Scott M. Hofer
VI. PERSON-SPECIFIC INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCE APPROACHES IN DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH..... 84
Michael J. Rovine and Lawrence L. Lo
VII. REPLICATION, RESEARCH ACCUMULATION, AND META-ANALYSIS IN DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE..... 105
Noel A. Card
VIII. THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF DEVELOPMENTAL METHODOLOGY..... 122
Todd D. Little, Eugene W. Wang, and Britt K. Gorrall
COMMENTARY
OBSERVATIONS ABOUT HOW WE LEARN ABOUT METHODOLOGY AND STATISTICS..... 140
Paul E. Jose
CONTRIBUTORS..... 152
STATEMENT OF EDITORIAL POLICY..... 155
SUBJECT INDEX..... 157
