The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of an American Indian adolescent treatment program. A two-year follow-up study was conducted measuring school performance and antisocial behavior. It was found that American Indian adolescents who completed the program tended to have improved school performance and less involvement with the criminal justice system.

Using the revised Control, Agency, and Means-ends Interview (T. D. Little, G. Oettingen, & P. B. Baltes, 1995), we compared American children's (Grades 2-6) action-control beliefs about school performance with those of German and Russian children (Los Angeles, n = 657; East Berlin, n = 313; West Berlin, n = 517; Moscow, n = 541). Although we found pronounced cross-setting similarities in the ch...

From the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine, Dayton, Ohio (Dr Burke); Department of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minn (Dr Benson); Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, DC (Dr Englander); Competency-Based Assessment, The American Board of Pediatrics, Chapel Hill, NC (Dr Carraccio); and Department of Pedi...

Report of the 2011-2012 AACP Professional Affairs Committee: Addressing the Teaching Excellence of Volunteer Pharmacy Preceptors Betty Jean Harris, Chair, Michell Butler, Elizabeth Cardello, Robin Corelli, Wafa Dahdal, Mary Gurney, Kristopher Harrell, John Murphy, Douglas Pisano, Meghan Sullivan, Janet Teeters, Lynette Bradley-Baker Husson University School of Pharmacy, One College Circle, Bang...

This study examined the link between socioeconomic status (SES) and school readiness, testing whether parenting (maternal sensitivity and negative behavior/intrusiveness) and financial stress mediated this association and if race moderated these paths. Participants included 164 mother-child dyads from African American and European American families. Findings supported moderated mediation hypoth...

Objective. African American children exposed to multiple social risk factors during early childhood often experience academic difficulties, so identification of protective factors is important. Design. Academic and school behavior trajectories from kindergarten through third grade were studied among 75 African American children who have been followed prospectively since infancy to test hypothes...

The uncertain and complex lineage of the Lumbee American Indian tribe has made the issue of identity of prime concern. The cultural identification, racial identification, bicultural competence, and perceived school environment for 103 Lumbee Indian high school students were examined in this study. Higher self-ratings on American Indian cultural competence and American Indian cultural identifica...

The relationships between adolescent ethnic identity and attitudes toward school and school climate are investigated in a small, multiracial/multiethnic city in the Great Lakes region with ethnically diverse adolescents taught by primarily White teachers. The mixed methods investigation of 986 eighth through eleventh grade students during the 2010-2011 academic year suggests that the relationsh...

Drawing on the self-system model, this study conceptualized school engagement as a multidimensional construct, including behavioral, emotional, and cognitive engagement, and examined whether changes in the three types of school engagement related to changes in problem behaviors from 7th through 11th grades (approximately ages 12-17). In addition, a transactional model of reciprocal relations be...

background: reference charts are widely used in healthcare as a screening tool. this study aimed to produce reference growth charts for school children from west malaysia in comparison with the united states centers for disease control and prevention (cdc) chart. methods: a total of 14,360 school children ranging from 7 to 17 years old from six states in west malaysia were collected. a two-stag...