Teaching

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Capturing parents understanding about the health behaviors they practice with their preschool-aged children.

This qualitative, descriptive study first explored parents concept of health and then examined the health practices they undertook for their preschool-aged children. The purposive sample of 11 parent couples and 3 single parents (14 parent sets in total) ...
Janet Roden (Issues Compr Pediatr Nurs, 200301-03)
capturing-parents-understanding-health-behaviors-practice-preschool.asp

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Properties of school Chinese: implications for learning to read.

The properties of the 2,570 Chinese characters explicitly taught in Chinese elementary schools were systematically investigated, including types of characters, visual complexity, spatial structure, phonetic regularity and consistency, semantic ...
Hua Shu, Xi Chen, Richard C Anderson, Ningning Wu, Yue Xuan (Child Dev, 200301-02)
properties-school-chinese-implications-learning-read.asp

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Teaching, practice, and research: an integrative approach benefiting students and faculty.

A project showing the integration of teaching, practice, and research is described. The project involved using information gathered as part of baccalaureate nursing students assessments of womens perceptions of and responses to cesarean birth to extend a ...
Jacqueline Fawcett, Cynthia Aber, Marianne Weiss (J Prof Nurs, 200301-02)
teaching-practice-research-integrative-approach-benefiting-students.asp

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Learning with cases.

BACKGROUND: The use of case studies as a teaching and learning method has been traced back to the Medical Society of New Haven in 1788. The use of case studies was introduced into Harvard Law School in 1871, and this method was used with the first class ...
Ann Marriner Tomey (J Contin Educ Nurs, 200301-02)
learning-cases.asp

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Mental state examination: the elicitation of symptoms.

The general rules for elicitation of symptoms during the Mental State Examination (MSE) are not usually emphasized during the training of mental health professionals. This paper discusses principles which can be used to elicit and establish symptoms. The ...
K S Jacob (Psychopathology, 200301-02)
mental-state-examination-elicitation-symptoms.asp

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Elementary school teachers techniques of responding to student questions regarding sexuality issues.

Fifth- and sixth-grade elementary school teachers (n = 277) techniques of responding to students human sexuality-related questions were assessed. Few teachers (34%) reported receiving formal training in sexuality education. The most commonly asked ...
James H Price, Joseph A Dake, Gregg Kirchofer, Susan K Telljohann (J Sch Health, 200301)
elementary-school-teachers-techniques-responding-student-questions.asp

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Developing an "evidence-based medicine and use of the biomedical literature" component as a longitudinal theme of an outcomes-based medical school curriculum: year 1.

This paper describes the new outcomes-based curriculum at the University of Miami School of Medicine, a model curriculum for the first decade of the twenty-first century. The new curriculum has a strong emphasis on evidence-based medicine (EBM), ...
Suzetta Burrows, Kelly Moore, Joaquin Arriaga, Gediminas Paulaitis, Henry L Lemkau (J Med Libr Assoc, 200301)
developing-evidence-based-medicine-biomedical-literature-component.asp

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The use of control groups in artificial grammar learning.

Experimenters assume that participants of an experimental group have learned an artificial grammar if they classify test items with significantly higher accuracy than does a control group without training. The validity of such a comparison, however, ...
Rolf Reber, Pierre Perruchet (Q J Exp Psychol A, 200301)
control-groups-artificial-grammar-learning.asp

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Introducing personal digital assistants to family physician teachers.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: In our previous projects, students and residents have readily adopted personal digital assistants (PDAs), but faculty have generally been reluctant. The objective of the project reported here was to maximize adoption of PDAs by ...
David Topps, Roger Thomas, Rodney Crutcher (Fam Med, 200301)
introducing-personal-digital-assistants-family-physician-teachers.asp

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Efficacy of a psychoeducative group program for caregivers of demented persons living at home: a randomized controlled trial.

OBJECTIVES: To test the efficacy of a psychoeducative group program for informal caregivers of persons with dementia. METHODS: The study was a multicenter randomized controlled trial. Randomization was stratified according to sex and kinship. ...
Réjean Hébert, Louise Lévesque, Jean Vézina, Jean-Pierre Lavoie, Francine Ducharme, Carole Gendron, Michel Préville, Louis Voyer, Marie-France Dubois (J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci, 200301)
efficacy-psychoeducative-group-program-caregivers-demented-persons.asp