BACKGROUND The mandatory interprofessional education programme at Gunma University was initiated in 1999. This paper is a statistical evaluation of the programme from 1999 to 2007. METHODS A questionnaire of 10 items to assess the achievement levels of the programme, which was developed independently of other assessment systems published previously, was distributed, as well as two or three op...

The lower willingness of females to compete is extensively documented, and has a wide range of implications including gender gaps in occupational choice, achievement and labor market outcomes. In this paper we evaluate the impact on competitiveness of two randomized interventions that involve (1) targeted education to foster grit, a non-cognitive skill that has been shown to be highly predictiv...

Many analyses of educational outcomes include a single socioeconomic status (SES) index as a predictor or for statistical control. In large-scale assessment research, these analyses have primarily examined the influence of SES on academic achievement in schools and the influence of other individual, family, and school variables when controlling for SES. The findings have helped elucidate the me...

BACKGROUND Developmental milestone markers for fine motor and self-care skills among children with Down syndrome (DS) are either minimal, anecdotal or out-of date. Our goal was to produce normative expectations for the development of fine motor and self-care milestones specific to children with DS. METHOD A cross-sectional retrospective chart review was completed on 274 children with DS seen ...

EMILY McDONALD EVENS: Conceptualizing and Testing a New Measure of Fertility Intentions: A Mixed Methods Exploration of Factors that Affect the Achievement of Childbearing Plans (Under the direction of Sian Curtis and Herbert Peterson) Understanding fertility intentions is crucial for reproductive health research and programs. While quantitative research has identified factors associated with f...

OBJECTIVE In a previous study of literary creative achievement, we presented evidence refuting the still-influential statistical studies of Frances Galton on the inheritance of genius and also described a family background constellation of creativity. This study aims to assess empirically the hereditary transmission hypothesis with respect to creative achievement in the natural sciences. METH...

Longitudinal patterns of identity formation were analyzed in a representative cohort group of Finnish men and women born in 1959 across ages 27, 36, 42, and 50. The data were drawn from the Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Personality. Identity status (diffused, moratorium, foreclosed, achieved) from all four ages was available for 172 participants (54% females). Marcia's Identity Status Intervi...

Information on the young adult outcomes of the initial survivors of neonatal intensive care has been reported from the United States, Canada, Australia, Great Britain and other European countries. The studies have varied with regard to whether they were regional or hospital-based, their birth-weight group and gestational age, rates of survival, socio-demographic background, and measures of asse...

Title of Dissertation: ACHIEVEMENT GOAL ORIENTATIONS IN PHYSICAL REHABILITATION Sonia Kristi Lawson, Doctor of Philosophy, 2005 Dissertation directed by: Professor Patricia Alexander, PhD Department of Human Development Goals are used extensively in physical rehabilitation medicine to measure success. However, the goal construct has been given very little attention in research as compared to th...

With the increase in survival from childhood cancer, research has increasingly focused on the educational and professional achievements of childhood cancer survivors. Yet, if large-scale studies provide an acute description of the current situation of childhood cancer survivors, little is known about their trajectories and the social processes shaping these trajectories. Using a qualitative met...