Background: Robotics competitions are increasingly popular and potentially provide an on-ramp to computer science, which is currently highly gender imbalanced. However, within competitive robotics teams, student participation in programming is not universal. This study gathered surveys from over 500 elementary, middle, and high school robotics competition participants to examine (1) whether pro...

Head lice contamination has a global distribution and it is regarded as a main health problem throughout the world. Given the importance of physical health of students and head lice prevalence at school age, we aimed to examine the rate of head lice contamination among primary school students in the villages of Abadan in 2012. In this descriptive study, 624 students were randomly selected from ...

Although gender differences in cognitive abilities are frequently reported, the magnitude of these differences and whether they hold practical significance in the educational outcomes of boys and girls is highly debated. Furthermore, when gender gaps in reading, mathematics and science literacy are reported they are often attributed to innate, biological differences rather than social and cultu...

This paper studies the power of role models in changing beliefs, behavior, and outcomes for children who are struggling in school and who face negative stereotypes. We exploit random assignment of Chinese middle school students to classrooms to estimate how being assigned a female math teacher affects low performing girls. In our data, there is widespread belief that men are more able to learn ...

BACKGROUND Determinants of children's school wellbeing have not been extensively studied. In this cross-sectional study of school children we assessed how factors assumed to promote wellbeing and factors assumed to adversely influence wellbeing were associated with self-reported wellbeing in school. METHODS Children from five schools, 230 boys and 189 girls in grades 1-10, responded to the sa...

The purpose of this research is review of relation between value system and moral growth with finding identification in In Islamshahr high school students that is a surrey type of describing research method. Islamshahr high school students of statistical group was concise of 320 girls and boys that were selected by classification randomly selective method that boy students are 218 and girl stud...

To improve the prevention of student suicide, we investigated associations between stress, social support (from family, friends, and significant others support) and suicidal ideation. A sample of 200 adolescent students (100 boys and 100 girls) completed measures of demographic variable, stress, social support, and suicidal ideation. Findings of correlational analyses suggest that there is sign...

OBJECTIVES Children do not eat enough servings of vegetables, underscoring the need for effective interventions encouraging this behavior. The purpose of this research was to measure the impact that daily exposure to branded vegetable characters has on vegetable selection among boys and girls in elementary schools. METHODS In a large urban school district, 10 elementary schools agreed to part...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the influence of obesity status on immune cell count and concentration of the hormones cortisol and leptin, in order to establish a relationship among the variables analyzed. METHODS We recruited 27 obese [body mass index (BMI) > or = 95th percentile] and 21 non-obese (BMI < or = 75th percentile) adolescent boys and girls, aged 15-19 years at the post-pubertal stage. BMI ...

Background: Women during pregnancy, childbearing age, and adolescents are prone to anemia. The prevalence of anemia in Indonesia 2018 reached 32%. objectives this study were determine the correlation between nutritional status with incidence adolescent girls.Method: Describe briefly main methods or treatments applied. This is an analytical survey a cross-sectional design. population was student...