By use of a dance game, and after much input and advice from thirteen year old design consultants, we teach Java programming in a way that will interest middle school girls a critical age group for addressing gender inequity in programming.

a r t i c l e i n f o An increase in the educational achievement of girls at the same time that the number of female teachers in primary school education is rising has led to the discussion whether boys are disadvantaged by the lack of male teachers. The Netherlands Twin Register identified a unique sample of 100 12-year-old monozygotic twin pairs discordant and 396 boy–girl twin pairs concorda...

Pretend play has a central role for children's development and psychological well-being. However, there is a paucity of standardized and valid measures specifically devoted to assess the core domains involved in play activities in preschool and primary school children. The Affect in Play Scale-Preschool (4-5 years) and the Affect in Play Scale-Preschool Extended Version (6-10 years) are semi-st...

BACKGROUND The present study was carried out to assess the effects of community nutrition intervention based on advocacy approach on malnutrition status among school-aged children in Shiraz, Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS This case-control nutritional intervention has been done between 2008 and 2009 on 2897 primary and secondary school boys and girls (7-13 years old) based on advocacy approach i...

The Psychological Clinic of the University of Pennsylvania, under the direction of Dr. Lightner Witmer, is establishing norms at the fifteen-year-old level. This includes the high school group, which is made up of children who have completed the eighth grade and who are required to attend the high school until they go to work or reach their sixteenth birthday. The present analytic study of all ...

OBJECTIVE To test the feasibility, acceptability, and potential efficacy of after-school dance classes and a family-based intervention to reduce television viewing, thereby reducing weight gain, among African-American girls. DESIGN Twelve-week, 2-arm parallel group, randomized controlled trial. SETTING Low-income neighborhoods. PARTICIPANTS Sixty-one 8-10-year-old African-American girls a...

Based on heights, weights, chest girths and sitting heights of about 80,000 school children aged 6-14 in Kyoto city measured at the periodic school health examinations in April of 1966, the correlations and some of the partial correlations among these four physical variables and the regression of weight on other physical variables were presented for every age group of boys and girls. The correl...

OBJECTIVES As a secondary analysis of the BEACHeS study, we hypothesised there would be sex differences in Pakistani and Bangladeshi school children when examining adiposity and their response to an obesity intervention. DESIGN The Birmingham healthy Eating and Active lifestyle for CHildren Study (BEACHeS) was designed as a Phase II feasibility study of a complex intervention. SETTING 8 pri...

This study was designed to estimate the rubella seroprevalence in unvaccinated Turkish adolescent girls in urban and rural areas of Edirne, and to create preventive strategies for congenital rubella syndrome (CRS). The sample, representing 12- to 17-year-old adolescent girls, consisted of 1,600 subjects selected from school lists by systematic and random sampling, which was matched by age and u...

background and objectives: vitamin d deficiency/insufficiency is a global health problem. the importance of this problem is doubled in growing children because of their increased need for skeletal growth. this investigation was performed firstly to assess vitamin d status, and secondly to examine its possible relationship with sex, residing area and duration of sun exposure in 9-12 years old ch...