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Educational and Developmental Psychologist Educational and Volume 31 No. 1 Editorial July 2014 Psychology in the Topics iii Christopher Boyle Developmental Articles

From Stability to Mobility: African Secondary School Aged Adolescents’ Transition to Mainstream Schooling 1 Sashya Gunasekera, Stephen Houghton, Kenneth Glasgow and Christopher Boyle Psychologisty Social Media Use and Social Connectedness in Adolescents: The Positives and the Potential Pitfalls 18 Kelly A. Allen, Tracii Ryan, DeLeon L. Gray, Dennis M. McInerney and Lea Waters

Predicting Motor Skills From Strengths and Difﬁ culties Questionnaire Scores, Language Ability, and Other Features of New Zealand Children Entering Primary School 32 Rebecca J. Sargisson, Cheniel Powell, Peter Stanley and Rosalind de Candole

Psychotherapy, Pharmacotherapy, and Their Combination for Adolescents with Major Depressive Disorder: A Meta-Analysis 47 Nikita Singh and John Reece

Second Language Developmental Dynamics: How Dynamic Systems Theory Accounts for Issues in Second Language Learning 66 Rosmawati

Book Reviews Volume 2014 31 No. 1 July

Assessment for Teaching 81 Jacqueline Harvey

Improving Learning Through Dynamic Assessment: A Practical Classroom Resource 82 Volume 31 No. 1 Aimee Maxwell July 2014 Ethical Practice in Applied Psychology 83 Sara Groves Editor Chris Boyle

University of New England, Australia

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008165122_30-2.indd8165122_30-2.indd 1 66/27/14/27/14 3:083:08 PMPM Editor John Hattie The Australian The University of Melbourne, Australia Chris Boyle University of New England, Australia Garry Hornby University of Canterbury, New Zealand Associate Editors Important — Instructions for Authors Stephen Houghton Educational and Tim Corcoran The University of Western Australia Victoria University, Australia Andrew Martin John Roodenburg University of New South Wales, Australia 1. Review process • contains balanced syntheses, summaries, arguments, and Monash University, Australia Nancy Mather, Developmental University of Arizona, USA conclusions Book Reviews Editor The journal operates a policy of anonymous, expert, peer Dennis McInerney • has clear grammar, syntax, and expression Kelly Allen The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong review. Papers will be subject to an initial review by the Editor Toorak College, Australia and usually a minimum of two independent reviewers. 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Digital submission guidelines of this journal will continue to be to provide the members of the Australian tional discipline is an area which the Editor is keen to promote through the ground, Aims, Sample, Methods, Results and Conclusions. Psychological Society’s College of Educational and Developmental Psychol- AEDP and international submissions are especially welcomed in order to • Tables and fi gures, accompanied by their title, should be Manuscripts should be submitted online via our manuscript ogists with quality discussion and scientifi cally sound research which complement Australian psychological practice. This journal is published by typed in double spacing, one per page. submission and tracking site, http://mc.manuscriptcentral. com/aedp. 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Contents

Editorial Volume 31 No. 1 2014 Psychology in the Topics iii Christopher Boyle

Articles

From Stability to Mobility: African Secondary School Aged Adolescents’ Transition to Mainstream Schooling 1 Sashya Gunasekera, Stephen Houghton, Kenneth Glasgow and Christopher Boyle

Social Media Use and Social Connectedness in Adolescents: The Positives and the Potential Pitfalls 18 Kelly A. Allen, Tracii Ryan, DeLeon L. Gray, Dennis M. McInerney and Lea Waters

Predicting Motor Skills From Strengths and Difﬁculties Questionnaire Scores, Language Ability, and Other Features of New Zealand Children Entering Primary School 32 Rebecca J. Sargisson, Cheniel Powell, Peter Stanley and Rosalind de Candole

Psychotherapy, Pharmacotherapy, and Their Combination for Adolescents with Major Depressive Disorder: A Meta-Analysis 47 Nikita Singh and John Reece

Second Language Developmental Dynamics: How Dynamic Systems Theory Accounts for Issues in Second Language Learning 66 Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Australian Rosmawati Psychological Society. Cambridge University Press, University Printing House Book Reviews Shaftesbury Road Cambridge CB2 8BS Assessment for Teaching 81 United Kingdom journals.cambridge.org Jacqueline Harvey

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