INTRODUCTION High stakes are involved in student selection, for both medical schools and applicants. This thesis investigated the effects of selection on the medical student population and applicant pool in the Dutch setting. METHODS This thesis consists of six papers: two quantitative studies, one qualitative study, two mixed methods studies and one perspective paper based on a review of the...

A Health promoting schools (HPS) approach aims to make schools a healthy place through a holistic approach that promotes a supportive 'school ethos' and emphasizes improvements in physical, social, and emotional well-being and educational outcomes. A HPS initiative in rural Nova Scotia (Canada) provided an opportunity for a population-level natural experiment. This study investigated student we...

This research study aims to describe and analyze the implementation of school literacy movement policy build character in junior high schools. It is a qualitative with case study. The setting this two public schools that implement Tanah Laut District. key informants were principals, heads librarians, teams, teachers, students, supervisors, committee members, parents students determined by using...

by Randall W. Eberts, Ellen Kehoe Schwartz, and Joe A. Stone Randall W. Eberts is an assistant vice president and economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland; Ellen Kehoe Schwartz is a research evaluator with the General Accounting Office; and Joe A. Stone is the W.E. Miner Professor of Economics at the University of Oregon. This work was supported in part by the National Institute of Ed...

AUTHOR Stenton, Jan TITLE Otitis Media: Implications of Fluctuating, Conductive Hearing Loss on Learning and Behaviour in High School Age Students. PUB DATE 1997-00-00 NOTE 16p.; Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Australian Association for Research in Education (Brisbane, Australia, November 30-December 4, 1997). PUB TYPE Information Analyses (070) Reports Descriptive (141) -Speec...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the contribution of school contextual factors to individual student body mass index (BMI). We set out to determine if school characteristics/resources: (1) are associated with student BMI; (2) explain racial/ethnic disparities in student BMI; and (3) explain school-level differences in student BMI. METHODS Using gender-stratified multi-level modeling strategie...

Alienation from, or involvement in, the social and educational systems of the high school are investigated in an effort to determine the extent that school experiences may influence aggressive and deviant behavior in school and personality styles or orientations. Drawing upon longitudinal data collected from 250 boys followed from grades 8 through 12, potential antecedent-consequence relationsh...