Goals

101.

Finding the target: getting started with quality of care and health services research.

Choosing a research project and career goal requires planning. This article provides advice for the junior investigator on choosing a career path in health services research or quality improvement, developing and focusing project ideas, and assessing the ...
Michael A Steinman, C Seth Landefeld (Qual Manag Health Care, 2002SPRING)
finding-target-getting-started-quality-care-health-services-research.asp

102.

Effects of posting self-set goals on collegiate football players skill execution during practice and games.

The effects of self-set goals and public posting on athletic performance of 5 collegiate football players was studied. All players were linebackers on a National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Division II football team. The dependent variables ...
Phillip Ward, Michael Carnes (J Appl Behav Anal, 2002SPRING)
effects-posting-self-set-goals-collegiate-football-players-skill.asp

103.

Effects of public posting, goal setting, and oral feedback on the skills of female soccer players.

We evaluated the effects of public posting, goal setting, and oral feedback on the skills of 3 female high school soccer players during practice scrimmages. The dependent variables were the percentage of appropriate responses when the player (a) kept and ...
Brandilea Brobst, Phillip Ward (J Appl Behav Anal, 2002FALL)
effects-public-posting-goal-setting-oral-feedback-skills-female.asp

104.

The effects of a public address system on the off-task behavior of elementary physical education students.

The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of teacher feedback delivered via a public address system on the off-task behavior of elementary-school physical education students. A multiple baseline design across three classes was used in this ...
Stu Ryan, Tom Ormond, Charles Imwold, Rob J Rotunda (J Appl Behav Anal, 2002FALL)
effects-public-address-system-off-task-behavior-elementary-physical.asp

105.

Identifying living and sentient kinds from dynamic information: the case of goal-directed versus aimless autonomous movement in conceptual change.

To reason competently about novel entities, people must discover whether the entity is alive and/or sentient. Exactly how people make this discovery is unknown, although past researchers have proposed that young children--unlike adults--rely chiefly on ...
John E Opfer (Cognition, 200212)
identifying-living-sentient-kinds-dynamic-information-case-goal.asp

106.

The development of decision-making.

PURPOSE: To describe what is currently known and not known about the development of decision-making skills during adolescence. METHODS: The author provides a definition of competent decision-making, gives a brief overview of the literature on the ...
James P Byrnes (J Adolesc Health, 200212)
development-decision-making.asp

107.

Evaluation of a computer-based approach to teaching acid/base physiology.

Because acid/base physiology is a difficult subject for most medical and veterinary students, the first author designed a software program, Acid/Base Primer, that would help students with this topic. The Acid/Base Primer was designed and evaluated within ...
Richard E Rawson, Kathleen M Quinlan (Adv Physiol Educ, 200212)
evaluation-computer-based-approach-teaching-acid-base-physiology.asp

108.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and hopelessness: psychosocial factors.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship of psychosocial factors to the presence of hopelessness among patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Secondary cross-sectional analyses were conducted with data collected from 136 ...
Janice M Plahuta, B Jan McCulloch, Edward J Kasarskis, Mark A Ross, Rhoda A Walter, Evelyn R McDonald (Soc Sci Med, 200212)
amyotrophic-lateral-sclerosis-hopelessness-psychosocial-factors.asp

109.

The social behaviors and peer expectation of girls with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and comparison girls.

Investigated self-described social goals, self-generated actions, and perceived peer responses to hypothetical vignettes, as well as observed social behavior and peer sociometric status, in an ethnically and socioeconomically diverse sample of girls with ...
Jill R Thurber, Tracy L Heller, Stephen P Hinshaw (J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol, 200212)
social-behaviors-peer-expectation-girls-attention-deficit.asp

110.

Sharing science: characteristics of effective scientist-teacher interactions.

Despite national guidelines to reform K-12 science education, our students are not learning science any better. Conducted under the auspices of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a symposium examined several programs where ...
Nancy J Pelaez, Barbara L Gonzalez (Adv Physiol Educ, 200212)
sharing-science-characteristics-effective-scientist-teacher.asp