This paper looks at the role of pre-primary education in Germany using the German SocioEconomic Panel data set to determine if attending an early education program increases the probability of attending a higher level secondary school at age fourteen. In order to disentangle the effect of the early education program from family specific characteristics, I employ both family fixed effects estima...

Results In the study period, 4 patients had tracheal aspirate (TA) positive for MDR A.baumanii (all on mechanical ventilation), one patient had positive catheter tip and blood cultures. The attack rate was 12,8% and the ventilator associated pneumonia rate rose from 20,30 to 34,96 per 1000 ventilator days. The first three cases occurred from September 13 to 20 all of them in TA. Contact precaut...

The objective of positive education is not only to improve students' well-being but also their academic performance. As an important concept in positive education, growth mindset refers to core assumptions about the malleability of a person's intellectual abilities. The present study investigates the relation of growth mindsets to psychological well-being and school engagement. The study also e...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the contribution of school neighborhood socioeconomic advantage to the association between school-district physical education policy compliance in California public schools and Latino students' physical fitness. METHODS Cross-sectional Fitnessgram data for public-school students were linked with school- and district-level information, district-level physical educatio...

This study examined preservice teacher (PT) attitudes toward fitness tests in schools. A total of 613 PTs at 10 state universities took part in the study. Participants completed a previously validated instrument designed to measure the affective and cognitive components of attitude toward fitness tests. Results suggested that PTs had only slightly positive attitudes toward fitness tests. They d...

This paper uses panel data from two new data sets on educational attainment to investigate the effects of education on several development outcomes in African countries. I find that education has a positive and significant impact on these development outcomes. I also find that different levels of education affects development outcomes differently; for some development outcomes, primary and seco...

Parental Education and Wages: Evidence from China Using nationally representative data in China, we find substantial positive partial correlations of both parents’ education with one’s wage. In addition, returns to father’s education are higher in more monopsonistic and less meritocratic labor markets, including non-coastal regions, the state-owned sector, and the early periods of the reform er...

Bu çalışmanın amacı, çevrimiçi öğretim uygulamalarını kullanarak derslerini sınıflarda yürüten elemanlarının ortamda olumlu sınıf kültürü yaratılmasına ilişkin görüşlerini alarak değerlendirme yapmak ve uygulayıcılar için öneriler geliştirmektir. Araştırma, nitel araştırma modellerinden durum çalışmasıyla desenlenmiştir. Çalışma grubu, bilgi açısından zengin olduğu düşünülen kişilerin seçilmesi...

background: the negative attitudes and behaviors of iranian nursing students impede learning and threaten their progression and retention in nursing programs. the need to understand students’ perception and experiences of nursing provide knowledge about effectiveness of nursing education program as well as their professional identity. the purpose of this study was to discover experiences of nur...