Quantitative Research Methods Matrix
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Primary Characteristics
Current Peer-Reviewed Study
Experimental
An experiment establishes the relationship through manipulation of the study sample. For an accurate estimate of the relationship between variables, an experiment may need only tens of subjects. Experimental designs are often called true experimental research which can be identified by three characteristics: (1) pre-posttest design, (2) a treatment group and a control group, and (3) random assignment of study participants. Trochim, W. M. K., & Donnelly, J. P. (2008).
Mother Child interaction and resilience in children with early developmental risk speaks about a study which tests 50 children with early developmental delays. The article focused on the contributions of child characteristics and mother-child interaction to the prediction of formal intellectual disability (ID) among children with identified early developmental delays (Fenning & Baker, 2012). Children become resilient in certain situations and the study that was performed showed that children remain at risk for learning difficulties and teaching them resilience tools will help the children at risk for ID (Fenning & Baker, 2012).
Three related but distinct aspects of mother–child interaction were considered: maternal technical scaffolding, maternal positive sensitivity, and mother–child dyadic pleasure. Children were classified as exhibiting undifferentiated delays at age 3, based upon performance on developmental assessments and the absence of known genetic syndromes. Mother–child interaction was assessed at age 4 through observational ratings of structured laboratory tasks, and through naturalistic home observations. ID was identified at age 5
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