Domain-Specificity of Educational and Learning Capital: A Study With Musical Talents.

The Education and Learning Capital Approach (ELCA) has been widely used to investigate talent development. A research gap is the implicit consideration of the domain specificity of educational and learning capital. In an empirical study with 365 school students we investigated the domain specificity of the approach for the domains of school learning and learning to play a musical instrument.

Understanding the day-to-day lives of obese children and their families.

This study investigated the daily lives of obese children and their families to better understand factors influencing weight-related behaviors. A multiple case study design was implemented with 6 obese children and their families. Participant observations occurred in different settings from when the children woke until they went to bed, yielding approximately 95 hours of data per family.

Are we exacerbating students' learning disabilities? an investigation of preservice teachers' attributions of the educational outcomes of students with learning disabilities.

While claims of the importance of attribution theory and teachers' expectations of students for student performance are repeatedly made, there is little comprehensive research identifying the perceptions preservice teachers have of students with learning disabilities (LD). Accordingly, 444 Australian preservice primary school teachers were surveyed using vignettes and Likert-scale questions, to ascertain their responses to students with and without LD. It was found that preservice primary school general education teachers held a negative attribution style towards students with LD.

Barriers to increasing physical activity and limiting small screen recreation among obese children.

Objective: To investigate the barriers to increasing physical activity and limiting small screen recreation time among obese children.

Design: Qualitative study using a case study design incorporating focus groups and interviews with parents and pair interviews with children.

Participants: Nine obese children (age range 5-12 years) and their parents.