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Investigative Interviews of Alleged Sexual Abuse Victims with and without Anatomical Dolls.
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Lamb, Michael E.; And Others – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 1996
A study of 24 videotaped interviews with sexually abused children (ages 4-12) investigated the effectiveness of using anatomically correct dolls during the interview process. Results found that when children were interviewed without dolls they gave longer and more detailed responses, suggesting that use of the dolls inhibited rather than…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Evaluation Methods, Interviews, Investigations
Explaining Conversation Rules to Children: An Intervention Study to Facilitate Children's Accurate Responses.
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Mulder, Marianne R.; Vrij, Aldert – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 1996
This study, with 114 children (ages 4 to 10), examined effects of explaining 2 conversation rules ("I don't know" is an acceptable answer, and the interviewer can't help in answering questions) prior to interviewing children regarding a staged event each child had witnessed. Results suggest that the rules reduce suggestibility and could…
Descriptors: Children, Communication Skills, Connected Discourse, Evidence (Legal)
Reasoning from Data: How Students Collect and Interpret Data in Science Investigations
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Kanari, Zoe; Millar, Robin – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2004
This study explored the understandings of data and measurement that school students draw upon, and the ways that they reason from data, when carrying out a practical science inquiry task. The two practical tasks used in the study each involved investigations of the relationships between two independent variables (IVs) and a dependent variable…
Descriptors: Science Education, Investigations, Error of Measurement, Mathematics Achievement