Methodology and Research Strategy in the Study of Development Change SSRC

Author(s):

Wohlwill, Joachim F.

Publication Year:

1969

Report Number:

RM-69-24

Source:

ETS Research Memorandum

Document Type:

Report

Page Count:

114

Subject/Key Words:

Social Science Research Council (SSRC), Age Differences, Behavioral Science Research, Developmental Psychology, Human Development, Research Methodology

Abstract

This review focuses on a selected set of general issues of research strategy arising in developmental research, starting not from a specific theory about development, but from a particular, possibly idiosyncratic, point of view about the nature of the age variable and the major paradigms of research which make up the developmental enterprise. It does not duplicate or supplement coverage of general problems of methodology and technique in child-psychological or aging research already available.

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