STUDY OBJECTIVE To examine the completion rate, internal reliability, and external validity of a home affluence scale based on adolescents' reports of material circumstances in the home as a measure of family socioeconomic status. DESIGN Cross sectional survey. SETTING Data were collected from a school based study in seven schools in the north of England Cheshire over a five month period fr...

Is it reasonable to do constructive mathematics without the axiom of countable choice? Serious schools of constructive mathematics all assume it one way or another, but the arguments for it are not compelling. The fundamental theorem of algebra will serve as an example of where countable choice comes into play and how to proceed in its absence. Along the way, a notion of a complete metric space...

Although studies have shown that self-control skills (SCSs) are positively linked to both personal and interpersonal outcomes in adolescent students, studies on the putative mechanisms underlying this relationship are scarce. Drawing on Self-Determination Theory and previous studies, we theorized that the association between students' SCSs and their subjective well-being (SWB) in school may be ...

This study examines how high school boys' and girls' academic effort, in the form of math coursetaking, is influenced by members of their social contexts. The authors argue that adolescents' social contexts are defined, in part, by clusters of students (termed "local positions") who take courses that differentiate them from others. Using course transcript data from the recent Adolescent Health ...

This paper examines the possible causes of collapse of a primary school in San Giuliano, Italy, in the 2002 Molise earthquake, which killed 27 students and one teacher. It also considers the general sources of seismic vulnerability of school buildings in Italy prior to the introduction of new seismic zonation and new seismic codes in 2003. In addition to incomplete seismic zonation and inadequa...

SAMPLE DISSERTATION TOPICS  New York State’s Principal Evaluation System: Perceptions of Principals & Evaluators...  Teacher Beliefs about Literacy Learning and Classroom Practices  Career & Technical Education (CTE) Alignment with 21 Century Skills  Comparative Case Analysis of the Innovation in 5 STEM schools based on Zhao’s framework for 21 Century World Class Leaders  A Multi-Year Stud...

One of the criticisms which is often leveled against the public school system of the United States is that the instruction is too mechanical; that the public schools tend to treat all children as if they were alike, both physically and mentally. The tendency in modern education to reach the individual needs of the children should meet this objection. The administrators of our public schools are...

Peer observation of classroom and clinical teaching has received increased attention over the past decade in schools of nursing to augment student ratings of teaching effectiveness. One essential ingredient is the scale used to evaluate performance. A five-step systematic procedure for adapting, writing, and building any peer observation scale is described. The differences between the developme...

OBJECTIVE: The goal was to assess the rate and behavioral methods of nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) in a community sample of youth and examine effects of age and sex. METHODS: Youth in the third, sixth, and ninth grades (ages 7–16) at schools in the community were invited to participate in a laboratory study. A total of 665 youth (of 1108 contacted; 60% participation rate) were interviewed abou...