Child Mental Health and Educational Attainment: Multiple Observers and the Measurement Error Problem We examine the effect of survey measurement error on the empirical relationship between child mental health and personal and family characteristics, and between child mental health and educational progress. Our contribution is to use unique UK survey data that contains (potentially biased) asses...

Modern educational Web sites often feature a rich assortment of linked media content. In this paper, we present a workload study of such an educational Web site hosted at the University of Calgary. Three main insights emerge from our study. First, educational Web sites can generate large volumes of Internet traffic, even when the number of users is limited. Second, network usage is highly influ...

In the arena of accountability measures in health care recertIfication mechanisms are bezng evaluated for their cost-effectiveness in occupatzonal therapy. The use of continuing education as one recertification option raises concern about the efficacy of educational activities. One measure of program quality is the continuing educatzon unit. Criteria for its award are delineated. Several method...

Educational influence on cognitive performance has been extensively agreed in Neuropsychology. Nonetheless, recent studies highlighted the need of better measurements to assess benefit from the schooling experience in order to further understand schooling influence on cognition. The WAIS-III Information subtest is proposed here to measure this influence at old age. Ninety-five older adults were...

In this paper, we show data from the Colorado Learning Attitudes about Science Survey that suggests that Georgetown physics majors become increasingly expert in their attitudes towards physics learning and knowing after taking a course that combines two reformed curricula, Matter and Interactions (M&I) and Tutorials in Introductory Physics (TIPs). This occurs even though the two curricula do no...

BACKGROUND To improve health and academic learning in schoolchildren, the Active School programme in Stavanger, Norway has introduced physically active academic lessons. This is a teaching method combining physical activity with academic content. The purpose of this paper was to evaluate the response to the physically active lessons and identify facilitators and barriers for implementation of s...