Achievement

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Predicting NCLEX-RN success: can it be simplified?

The purpose of this study was to compare a simple, easily calculated method for predicting student success on the nursing licensure exam (NCLEX-RN) with more statistically complex methods of prediction. The Risk Appraisal Instrument (RAI), designed by ...
Julie Keith Waterhouse, Pamela B Beeman (Nurs Educ Perspect, 200301-02)
predicting-nclex-rn-success-simplified.asp

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Predicting academic success in the first year of chiropractic college.

PURPOSE: To determine if any existent preadmission academic or personal variables predict academic success in the first year of the Palmer College of Chiropractic West (PCCW) program. PARTICIPANTS: One hundred ninety-two students at PCCW who had ...
Bart N Green, Claire D Johnson, Kevin McCarthy (J Manipulative Physiol Ther, 200301)
predicting-academic-success-first-year-chiropractic-college.asp

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Personality differences in childhood and adolescence: measurement, development, and consequences.

Child psychologists and psychiatrists are interested in assessing childrens personalities. This interest is fueled by the practical desire to identify differences between children that have predictive utility, and by recognition that future advances in ...
Rebecca Shiner, Avshalom Caspi (J Child Psychol Psychiatry, 200301)
personality-differences-childhood-adolescence-measurement-development.asp

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Hypnosis and performance standards.

Participants received 1 of 3 instructional sets designed to manipulate their performance standards (i.e., criteria used to evaluate hypnotic performance): (a) stringent set (n = 33), these subjects were told that responsive subjects respond immediately ...
Steven Jay Lynn, Joseph P Green, Leah Jaquith, Donna Gasior (Int J Clin Exp Hypn, 200301)
hypnosis-performance-standards.asp

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Extending our understanding of burnout: test of an integrated model in nonservice occupations.

C. L. Cordes and T. M. Dougherty (1993) provided a conceptual framework of job burnout in nonservice organizations. This study sought to determine the "fit" of that theoretical model within nonservice occupations. LISREL VIII was used to test this model ...
Margaret Posig, Jill Kickul (J Occup Health Psychol, 200301)
extending-understanding-burnout-test-integrated-model-nonservice.asp

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A youth development approach to profiling sexual abstinence.

OBJECTIVE: To use youth and parent demographic factors, youth assets (strengths), and community constructs to develop age-group-specific profiles for youth who abstain from sexual activity. METHODS: Data were collected using in-person interviews of youth ...
Roy F Oman, Sara K Vesely, Michelle Kegler, Kenneth McLeroy, Cheryl B Aspy (Am J Health Behav, 2003)
youth-development-approach-profiling-sexual-abstinence.asp

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Empowerment as fostering positive youth development and citizenship.

OBJECTIVE: To develop a theoretical framework of youth empowerment in the context of a participatory community health promotion intervention, a longitudinal qualitative study was conducted. METHODS: Individual and group interviews, documents, and ...
Margaret Cargo, Garry D Grams, Judith M Ottoson, Patricia Ward, Lawrence W Green (Am J Health Behav, 2003)
empowerment-fostering-positive-youth-development-citizenship.asp

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Sensitivity of childrens behavior to probabilistic reward: effects of a decreasing-ratio lottery system on math performance.

Probabilistic reward has been shown to affect childrens choice behavior in game-like activities. We examined the effects of a lottery system containing progressively lower exchange ratios on childrens completion of math problems. Two of the 3 children ...
Brian K Martens, Scott P Ardoin, Alexandra M Hilt, Amanda L Lannie, Carlos J Panahon, Laurie A Wolfe (J Appl Behav Anal, 2002WINTER)
sensitivity-children-s-behavior-probabilistic-reward-effects.asp

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Academic self-concept, academic achievement, and leadership in university students studying in a physical therapy program.

Students enrolled in a selected admissions program, in which there are a limited number of student positions available, were assessed for academic self-concept using the Dimensions of Self-Concept upon entry into the program. This study was performed to ...
Rosemary J Gottlieb, Janet L Rogers (J Allied Health, 2002SUMMER)
academic-self-concept-academic-achievement-leadership-university.asp

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A pilot study. Depth perception and near stereoacuity: is it related to academic performance in young children?

PURPOSE: A study of the relationship between an overall measure of visual function at near, specifically stereoacuity, and academic performance in kindergarten through second grade was conducted. METHOD: One hundred seventeen children (mean age = 7.33 ...
Marjean Taylor Kulp, Paulette P Schmidt (Binocul Vis Strabismus Q, 2002SUMMER)
pilot-study-depth-perception-near-stereoacuity-related-academic.asp