PB2A

PB2A Scoping out scholarly sources

The research based lab report  I chose was Korean Children’s Evaluation of Parental Restrictions Regarding Gender Stereotypic Peer Activities by Park,Shiver, and Killen. This article focuses on 128 Korean students from grades third to sixth in order to test whether gender stereotypes have any affect in what extracurricular activities they participate in and what peer relationships they choose to develop. The exigence addresses counterarguments as well as contributing to additional information. This piece of writing begins by introducing the subject and past information that gives the reader more context on the subject, this is found in the Introduction clearly labeled, a traditional convention. It tries to inform the audience that children are highly influenced by their parents but as they enter adolescence they tend to reject parental authority jurisdiction regarding personal issues, which means that as children get older they are more likely to develop their own thoughts on gender stereotypes based society. This factual information  of past studies performed by highly skilled professionals builds credibility or ethos ultimately gaining the audience's trust.  What I found interesting was that in the introduction it contained past studies that were successful and others that have failed to recognize crucial aspects that alters the overall results. For example in this research paper they include outside resources that raises potential questions for the audience, such as “Whereas much research has examined children’s exclusion based in gender with US samples, very few studies have evaluated how non-US samples, particularly children from Asian cultures, evaluate this form of exclusion”. By informing audiences what areas past data has failed to show it gives this research paper a valid platform worth reading, potentially gaining a larger audience because it raises to prove something new and fresh. The research indicates that a new correlation between level of a parent's education and the gender roles that their children grow up recognizing as socially acceptable. To test their hypothesis, professionals designed a social reasoning assessment  to evaluate 128 participant’s judgment on gender roles. Performing test and experiments to prove a hypothesis is a convention that readers expect to find, because they provide evidence that specially corresponds to the topic. The lab report follows the form and structure conventions, which is displayed in the order of Introduction, methods, procedures, measures, results, discussion and lastly references.

What this lab report tries to answer is if Korean children support unconditional parental restrictions in children’s peer activities that were associated with gender norms. This hypothesis was operationalized by asking what sport the children would rather play choices included soccer or ballet, and then asking the same individuals what gender would they typically associate with the sport. After analyzing the data, they had staticians to calculate the average and standard deviation which can tell whether there is a strong or weak correlation between children and their parental gender influence. The results from the numbers indicated that the majority of children used moral reasoning to support their judgment rather than their gender bias. Questions left unanswered are directed towards the participants for example, “do children take into consideration issues of social isolation?”. By askinging questions, it makes the audience believe that since there are these no concrete answers that the data presented may not fully and effectively represent children's interview responses. When I read this lab report i found it crucial to read other sources that have done similar studies and are recognized for being helpful to further research or have failed to take into consideration other factors. I believe that it becomes very easy for professionals to only focus on their material because there is an unconscious level of being biased which does not provide the audience the whole truth. I also do think that when delivering data, lab reports need to use a formal and direct language in order to present the new information found most effectively and that is what this Korean study did. Because of language and visuals it was very easy to follow along and quickly understand the author's position and their purpose.

works cited 
http://web.b.ebscohost.com.proxy.library.ucsb.edu:2048/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=622bae2e-c963-490d-8302-024e5d58294a%40sessionmgr107&vid=7&hid=128