scholarly journals The impact of environmental conditions on human performance: A critical review of the literature. Volume 2

1994 ◽  
Author(s):  
D Echeverria ◽  
V Barnes ◽  
A Bittner
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Human Performance ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
The Impact

Poverty and adolescent developmental outcomes: a critical review

2011 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet T.Y. Leung ◽  
Daniel T.L. Shek
Keyword(s):  
Protective Factors ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Developmental Outcomes ◽  
Family Processes ◽  
Psychological Development ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Conceptual Problems ◽  
The Impact

Abstract This paper reviews the impact of poverty on adolescent developmental outcomes. Based on a review of the literature, the impact of poverty on the psychological development of adolescents, the pathways through which poverty operates, and the protective factors of adolescents from the impact of poverty are outlined. The review showed conceptual problems in the literature, including the neglect of attention paid to cultural diversity and intervening processes between poverty and child developmental outcomes. This review also highlights methodological challenges, including the lack of longitudinal and qualitative studies in the field and the problems of using single informant perspective to study dynamic family processes. Recommendations for directions of future research are offered.

The Effects of Vestibular Stimulation on the Sensory-Motor Performance of Handicapped Individuals: A Critical Review of the Literature

1984 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 121-125
Author(s):  
Michael A. Cass
Keyword(s):  
Critical Review ◽  
Motor Performance ◽  
Vestibular Stimulation ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Linear Forms ◽  
Sensory Motor ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of this article was to critically examine the literature dealing with the impact of vestibular stimulation on the sensory-motor performance of individuals evidencing handicapping conditions. The research examined consisted of studies in which vestibular stimulation was employed in conjunction with other intervention procedures and studies in which either angular or linear forms of vestibular stimulation were used as the sole form of treatment. Evidence supporting the supposition that vestibular stimulation enhances the sensory-motor performance of handicapped individuals was found to be tentative at best, and possible directions for future research were indicated.

scholarly journals The role of undergraduate laboratories in the formation of engineering identities: A critical review of the literature

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Winberg ◽  
Simon L. Winberg
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Systematic Reviews ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Undergraduate Engineering ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Engineering Identity

Background: There was growing recognition worldwide by professional engineering bodies, engineering faculties and researchers on the need to pay attention to engineering students’ emerging identities and how they were formed across the trajectory of undergraduate engineering programmes. An increasing number of research studies focused on engineering identity, including systematic reviews of the research literature.Aim: Engineering laboratories were key learning spaces in undergraduate engineering programmes. In the laboratory, students learned to integrate theory and practice, engaged in problem-solving and applied experimental methods. The purpose of this critical review of the literature was to interrogate the impact that learning in engineering laboratories had on emerging professional identities across engineering disciplines and fields.Method: This review built on and extended previous systematic reviews on engineering identity by studying pedagogies in the engineering laboratory through the lens of identity formation. Search terms were consistently applied to eight databases, which yielded 57 empirical studies, after the application of relevance and quality appraisal criteria. Two reviewers independently applied a socio-materialist theoretical framework of identify formation to each study and coded each of the studies into categories aligned with the theoretical framework.Results: The findings of the critical review revealed the temporal, spatial, material, performative and discursive dimensions in engineering identity formation and showed that students’ emerging identities could be affirmed and supported by appropriate laboratory pedagogies.Conclusion: The critical review of the literature concluded that curricular and pedagogical interventions that were better aligned with the dimensions of identity formation were more likely to enhance students’ identification with engineering.

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