background and purpose: school, as a reliable place in educating students, has an important role in training. the aim of this study was the assessment of environmental health of primary schools in norabad mamasani city of fars province. materials and methods: in this analytical-descriptive and cross-sectional study, all of 26 primary schools in norabad mamasani city were surveyed by using censu...

The Stanford Medical Youth Science Program (SMYSP) is a biomedical pipeline program that seeks to diversify the health professions by providing academic enrichment in the medical sciences and college admissions support to very low-income high school students. Each summer 24 students are recruited from over 250 California high schools for the five-week residential program, led by 10 undergraduat...

Modeling of a natural phenomenon is of value in science learning and increasingly emphasized as an important component of science education. However, previous research has shown that secondary school students encounter difficulties when engaging in modeling activities and need substantial support in order to create meaningful scientific models. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to prese...

school is the first social institution which affects adolescents' lives, and it determines their opportunities, life quality and behavior. thus, the aim of this study was to determine the relationship between students' bonds with their school and multiple health risk behaviors amongst high school students in kerman city, iran.in this cross-sectional study, high school students of all levels par...

OBJECTIVE To explore high school students' motivation for applying to study medicine and the factors that influence this. To find explanations for under-representation of minority students in medical education, descriptions of motivation of students with different background characteristics were compared. DESIGN Qualitative phenomenological study using semistructured one-on-one interviews. ...

A sincere thank you to my advisors, Professor Michael Munger and Professor Ken Rogerson for their willingness, guidance, and expertise. Without their support and leadership, this project would not be possible. To my mom, dad, sister, and friends who encouraged me to set far-reaching goals and challenge myself. And To the Sanford School of Public Policy, who makes it possible for students to per...

1 I am especially grateful to Juergen Jung, Mike Treuden, and Nathaniel Throckmorton for their tremendous contributions to these notes. I also thank Michael Kaganovich and Eric Leeper for their guidance and for giving me the opportunity to develop and teach this course during graduate school. Several classes of Indiana and Auburn University graduate students provided suggestions and corrections...

A majority of the existing research regarding the impact of family involvement on educational outcomes shows a positive correlation. Barnard (2004) looked at the association between parental involvement in elementary school and student success in high school, and concluded that early parental involvement in a child’s education promotes positive long-term effects. Conversely, Bronstein et al. (2...

CONTEXT In February 2008, a new partnership between Maine Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine was formed to create a model medical school program. ISSUE Major forces for change included: the increasing physician workforce needs of Maine, the need to increase access for medical education for Maine students, the opportunity for educational innovation, the societal imperative ...