Shirley Heath (1983) found that characteristics of instructional discourse were noted in the home discourse of:

Lisa is shown as having few nominations of any positive or negative kind on a sociogram for her classroom of children. We would say she falls in the ____________ category.

Children with chronic illness often use play as a way to gain control over a difficult situation.

Maynard and Greenfield compared boys and girls from a Zinacantec community and their peers from Los Angeles on their performance on two types of concrete operational tasks (a traditional Piagetian task and a task that was based on traditional weaving practices). The researchers found that:

Jamie collects coins and has been able to organize them by country and metal. What aspect of concrete operations is Jamie exhibiting?

Sam is very good at mentally rotating objects in order to solve problems. What kind of intelligence is this?

Carol Gilligan has argued that, in their moral reasoning:

Intentionally focusing one’s attention, or remembering to do something, or mappingout a plan to solve a problem involves the regulation of cognitive processes.

The MOST successful school programs for culturally and linguistically diverse students:

One of the most pervasive findings of research on social status is that popularity is related to physical attractiveness.