Mary Connolly

Yet another perspective: a response to Connolly

Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis J . H . CONNOLLY

Introduction Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) is a rare disease which predominantly affects children of school age. The clinical features include an insidious afebrile onset with behavioural disturbance and progressive dementia sometimes associated with epilepsy. Later akinetic mutism and myoclonic jerks with pyramidal and extrapyramidal signs appear. Finally there is progressive deco...

Mary Ainsworth

Saul McLeod John Bowlby (1969) believed that attachment was an all or nothing process. However, research has shown that there are individual differences in attachment quality. Indeed, one of the primary paradigms in attachment theory is that of the security of an individual’s attachment (Ainsworth & Bell, 1970). Much research in psychology has focused on how forms of attachment differ among inf...

Mary Miller

This article summarizes a study of classroom television use. It describes the study methodology as "eclectic, drawing on traditions of action research ... ethnography ... history ... and constructivism..." (Ellipses in quote represent omitted citations.) The article is not particularly well organized. The author quotes extensively from the findings of earlier research studies, but does not alwa...

(Mis)understanding underachievement: a response to Connolly

In a recent issue of this journal an author named Connolly (2008) presented what he termed a ‘critical review’ of some of our previous work on the relative attainment of male and female students in UK schools. He proposed three general areas for criticism – our use of attainment gaps, our consideration of outcomes other than at specific thresholds, and our querying of the idea of student ‘under...