Achievement

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Multidimensional outcome considerations in assessing the efficacy of medical educational programs.

BACKGROUND: To be accredited, schools must evaluate the effectiveness of their programs. Educators are looking for specific indicators beyond the traditional measures. Data from multiple methods, including indicators of student performance and of the ...
Phyllis Blumberg (Teach Learn Med, 2003SUMMER)
multidimensional-outcome-considerations-assessing-efficacy-medical.asp

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Validity of the Spanish version of the Child Health and Illness Profile-Adolescent Edition (CHIP-AE).

OBJECTIVES: To assess the structural, convergent, discriminant, and criterion validity of the Spanish version of the Child Health and Illness Profile-Adolescent Edition (CHIP-AE) and to compare results with the U.S. version. SUBJECTS: A sample of ...
Luis Rajmil, Vicky Serra-Sutton, Jordi Alonso, Michael Herdman, Anne Riley, Barbara Starfield (Med Care, 200310)
validity-spanish-version-child-health-illness-profile-adolescent.asp

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Approaches to learning: psychometric testing of a study process questionnaire.

BACKGROUND: One method of evaluating students learning is to measure surface, deep and achieving approaches to learning using a questionnaire. In comparison with research on student nurses learning styles, there has been little examination of their ...
Sherrill Snelgrove, Julie Slater (J Adv Nurs, 200309)
approaches-learning-psychometric-testing-study-process-questionnaire.asp

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Mental health.

OBJECTIVE: Only in the last 30 years has psychiatry begun to develop empirical approaches to conceptualizing and assessing positive mental health. Six models of mental health are reviewed here. METHOD: The author points out pitfalls in research on mental ...
George E Vaillant (Am J Psychiatry, 200308)
mental-health.asp

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Evaluation of a program supporting scholarly productivity for new investigators.

PURPOSE: Like many groups, the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation has a long-term interest in funding new investigators. This study documents the career outcomes related to scientific productivity, research support, and current faculty positions of ...
Brian Mavis, Michael Katz (Acad Med, 200307)
evaluation-program-supporting-scholarly-productivity-new-investigators.asp

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The impact of school nursing on school performance: a research synthesis.

School nurses work in an educational setting. Due to budget cuts, different goals, and confusion between educators and nurses regarding the school nurse role, school nurses are being asked to demonstrate their effectiveness and justify their presence in ...
Erin Maughan (J Sch Nurs, 200306)
impact-school-nursing-school-performance-research-synthesis.asp

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Does low reading achievement at school entry cause conduct problems?

Conduct problems place children at increased risk for a broad array of negative health and social outcomes that include conduct disorder, injuries and violence, school failure, substance abuse, depression, and suicide. Prevention interventions have the ...
Kathryn J Bennett, K Stephen Brown, Michael Boyle, Yvonne Racine, Dan Offord (Soc Sci Med, 200306)
low-reading-achievement-school-entry-cause-conduct-problems.asp

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Leaving high school: the influence and consequences for psychological well-being and career-related confidence.

This paper examines the well-being and career decision-making self-efficacy (CDMSE) of adolescents before and after leaving school, and tests for the changes in these variables as a result of leaving school. While at high school, 309 students were ...
Peter A Creed, Juanita Muller, Wendy Patton (J Adolesc, 200306)
leaving-high-school-influence-consequences-psychological-well-career.asp

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The importance of normative beliefs to the self-prophecy effect.

Asking people to predict whether they will undertake a target behavior increases their probability of performing that behavior. Now referred to as the self-prophecy effect, this phenomenon has been demonstrated across several contexts. Although ...
David E Sprott, Eric R Spangenberg, Robert Fisher (J Appl Psychol, 200306)
importance-normative-beliefs-self-prophecy-effect.asp

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Relation of functional physical impairment and goal perspectives of wheelchair basketball players.

This study examined the relation of functional classification in wheelchair basketball and its relation to the theory of psychological goal perspectives for 59 adult male competitive players. Participants completed the 13-item Task and Ego Orientation in ...
Osnat Fliess-Douer, Yeshayahu Hutzler, Yves C Vanlandewijck (Percept Mot Skills, 200306)
relation-functional-physical-impairment-goal-perspectives-wheelchair.asp