A survey on the challenges, limitations, and opportunities of online testing of infants and young children during the COVID-19 pandemic: using our experiences to improve future practices

In developmental psychology, the widespread adoption of new methods for testing children does not typically occur over a matter of months. Yet, the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated social distancing requirements created a sudden need among many research groups to use a new method with which they...

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Autores principales: Shore, Montana J., Bukovsky, Danielle L., Pinheiro, Sylvia G. V., Hancock, Brendan M., Liptrot, Emma M., Kuhlmeier, Valerie A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Psychology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10296766/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37384169
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1160203
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author Shore, Montana J.
Bukovsky, Danielle L.
Pinheiro, Sylvia G. V.
Hancock, Brendan M.
Liptrot, Emma M.
Kuhlmeier, Valerie A.
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description In developmental psychology, the widespread adoption of new methods for testing children does not typically occur over a matter of months. Yet, the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated social distancing requirements created a sudden need among many research groups to use a new method with which they had little or no experience: online testing. Here, we report results from a survey of 159 researchers detailing their early experiences with online testing. The survey approach allowed us to create a general picture of the challenges, limitations, and opportunities of online research, and it identified aspects of the methods that have the potential to impact interpretations of findings. We use the survey results to present considerations to improve online research practices.
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spelling pubmed-102967662023-06-28 A survey on the challenges, limitations, and opportunities of online testing of infants and young children during the COVID-19 pandemic: using our experiences to improve future practices Shore, Montana J. Bukovsky, Danielle L. Pinheiro, Sylvia G. V. Hancock, Brendan M. Liptrot, Emma M. Kuhlmeier, Valerie A. Front Psychol Psychology In developmental psychology, the widespread adoption of new methods for testing children does not typically occur over a matter of months. Yet, the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated social distancing requirements created a sudden need among many research groups to use a new method with which they had little or no experience: online testing. Here, we report results from a survey of 159 researchers detailing their early experiences with online testing. The survey approach allowed us to create a general picture of the challenges, limitations, and opportunities of online research, and it identified aspects of the methods that have the potential to impact interpretations of findings. We use the survey results to present considerations to improve online research practices. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-06-13 /pmc/articles/PMC10296766/ /pubmed/37384169 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1160203 Text en Copyright © 2023 Shore, Bukovsky, Pinheiro, Hancock, Liptrot and Kuhlmeier. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Liptrot, Emma M.
Kuhlmeier, Valerie A.
A survey on the challenges, limitations, and opportunities of online testing of infants and young children during the COVID-19 pandemic: using our experiences to improve future practices
title A survey on the challenges, limitations, and opportunities of online testing of infants and young children during the COVID-19 pandemic: using our experiences to improve future practices
title_full A survey on the challenges, limitations, and opportunities of online testing of infants and young children during the COVID-19 pandemic: using our experiences to improve future practices
title_fullStr A survey on the challenges, limitations, and opportunities of online testing of infants and young children during the COVID-19 pandemic: using our experiences to improve future practices
title_full_unstemmed A survey on the challenges, limitations, and opportunities of online testing of infants and young children during the COVID-19 pandemic: using our experiences to improve future practices
title_short A survey on the challenges, limitations, and opportunities of online testing of infants and young children during the COVID-19 pandemic: using our experiences to improve future practices
title_sort survey on the challenges, limitations, and opportunities of online testing of infants and young children during the covid-19 pandemic: using our experiences to improve future practices
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10296766/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37384169
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1160203
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