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Direct linkGhetau, Elena; Bloor, Roger; Firth, Alison Y. – Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy, 2009
Purpose: To increase awareness of the causal relationship between illicit drug use in pregnancy and the occurrence of strabismus in children amongst the relevant professionals and encourage the use of local arrangements for referral, assessment and treatment of this population at risk. Method: A review of the literature regarding the occurrence of…
Descriptors: Children, Visual Impairments, Identification, Mothers
Sauerland, Melanie; Sporer, Siegfried L. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2009
The combined postdictive value of postdecision confidence, decision time, and Remember-Know-Familiar (RKF) judgments as markers of identification accuracy was evaluated with 10 targets and 720 participants. In a pedestrian area, passers-by were asked for directions. Identifications were made from target-absent or target-present lineups. Fast…
Descriptors: College Students, Identification, Foreign Countries, Decision Making Skills
de la Torre, Jimmy – Applied Psychological Measurement, 2009
Cognitive or skills diagnosis models are discrete latent variable models developed specifically for the purpose of identifying the presence or absence of multiple fine-grained skills. However, applications of these models typically involve dichotomous or dichotomized data, including data from multiple-choice (MC) assessments that are scored as…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Thinking Skills, Identification, Multiple Choice Tests
Download full textZaslow, Martha; Tout, Kathryn; Halle, Tamara; Whittaker, Jessica Vick; Lavelle, Bridget – Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, US Department of Education, 2010
This review incorporates findings from research on four "targets" of early childhood professional development: 1) strengthening human or social capital; 2) strengthening practices at institutions or organizations providing professional development; 3) strengthening early educator practices related to specific child outcomes; and, 4) strengthening…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Faculty Development, Identification, Instructional Effectiveness
Collins, Terri Lane Sutherland – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The prevalence rates of children being diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) continue to rise at alarming rates. Recent figures suggest that approximately 1 in 90 children have an ASD. Children with ASD have significant deficits that affect communication skills and social interaction. Children with ASD may also engage in high levels of…
Descriptors: Autism, Young Children, Interpersonal Relationship, Interaction
Lelli, Colleen M. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This mixed methods study examined preservice teachers' awareness of domestic violence through an undergraduate reading course which focused on children's literature. Pre and post surveys were administered to preservice teachers to determine whether their knowledge and skills in recognizing signs of domestic violence in behaviors of the elementary…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Undergraduate Students, Preservice Teachers, Methods Courses
Clark, John Michael, III. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation proposes a new factor-analytic technique for detecting cheating on exams. Person-fit statistics have been developed to assess the extent to which examinees' response patterns are consistent with expectation, with expectation defined in the context of some model. Response patterns that are inconsistent with expectation are said to…
Descriptors: Evidence, Expectation, Item Response Theory, Factor Analysis
Currie, Charles L. – Journal of Catholic Higher Education, 2010
The nation's Catholic colleges and universities are recommitting themselves to making their founding visions come alive in increasingly effective and innovative ways. This article describes the Jesuit tradition of higher education, discussing its origins and how it is reflected in the reality and practice of Jesuit higher education today. This is…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Church Related Colleges, Higher Education, Religious Organizations
Bowers, Alex J. – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2010
School personnel currently lack an effective method to pattern and visually interpret disaggregated achievement data collected on students as a means to help inform decision making. This study, through the examination of longitudinal K-12 teacher assigned grading histories for entire cohorts of students from a school district (n=188), demonstrates…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, School Districts, Grades (Scholastic)
Mick, Eric; Todorov, Alexandre; Smalley, Susan; Hu, Xiaolan; Loo, Sandra; Todd, Richard D.; Biederman, Joseph; Byrne, Deirdre; Dechairo, Bryan; Guiney, Allan; McCracken, James; McGough, James; Nelson, Stanley F.; Reiersen, Angela M.; Wilens, Timothy E.; Wozniak, Janet; Neale, Benjamin M.; Faraone, Stephen V. – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2010
Objective: Genes likely play a substantial role in the etiology of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). However, the genetic architecture of the disorder is unknown, and prior genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have not identified a genome-wide significant association. We have conducted a third, independent, multisite GWAS of…
Descriptors: Evidence, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Quality Control, Genetics
Fontaine, Nathalie M. G.; Rijsdijk, Fruhling V.; McCrory, Eamon J. P.; Viding, Essi – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2010
Objective: To investigate the longitudinal development of callous-unemotional traits (CU) in middle childhood using developmental trajectory analyses in a large twin dataset and examine the degree to which genetic and environmental influences contributed to the CU trajectory-group membership in children. Method: The study included 9,462 youths…
Descriptors: Group Membership, Twins, Females, Early Adolescents
Bagner, Daniel M.; Pettit, Jeremy W.; Lewinsohn, Peter M.; Seeley, John R. – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2010
Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of maternal depression during the child's first year of life (i.e., sensitive period) on subsequent behavior problems. Method: Participants were 175 mothers participating in the Oregon Adolescent Depression Project (OADP) who met lifetime diagnostic criteria for major depressive…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Behavior Problems, Early Intervention, Pregnancy
Lockhart, Barbara D. – Athletic Training Education Journal, 2010
Context: As educators, athletic trainers should familiarize athletes with the concepts of self acceptance self-esteem and identity to assuage psychological trauma accompanying injury because the more a person identifies with being an athlete, the more difficult it is to deal with athletic injury. Objective: The objective of this article is to…
Descriptors: Athletics, Injuries, Athletes, Psychology
McClure, Iain; MacKay, Tommy; Mamdani, Haider; McCaughey, Roslyn – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2010
Background: Early diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is of crucial importance, but lengthy delays are common. We examined whether this issue could be reliably addressed by local teams trained by a specialist ASD assessment team. Method: Four local teams were trained in diagnostic assessment. Their assessments of 38 children and young…
Descriptors: Autism, Disability Identification, Specialists, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Bartoszuk, Karin; Pittman, Joe F. – Youth & Society, 2010
This exploratory study examines identity exploration and commitment in different domains and how family structure (original/alternative), gender, and age affect these processes in a convenience sample of 388 college students. Results reveal that participants from alternative family structures explore more in the political and gender role domains…
Descriptors: Family Structure, Family (Sociological Unit), Females, Sex Role
