In this volume, Betts and Shkolnik [Betts, J. R., & Shkolnik, J. L. (1999) The effects of ability grouping on student math achievement and resource allocation in secondary schools. Economics of Education Review, 19, 1–15] argue that studies that compare students in tracked versus untracked classes overestimate the impact of tracking on student achievement by not adequately controlling for stude...

BACKGROUND The Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Foundation recommends patients attend clinic ≥4 times per year with 4 respiratory cultures and 2 pulmonary function tests (PFTs). However, nationally only 57.4% of patients met these guidelines in 2012. We used a quality improvement program with a goal of 75% of our patients meeting this care guideline by 2012. METHODS A 2-stage program was started in 2011....

As we consider the future of the information professions, it is useful to reflect on issues related to the library and information science workforce and the values that underlie the field. The author’s professional experience and research are used to highlight important practice trends such as digital libraries, embedded librarianship, broadening the audience for library and information service...

Young people have been perceived as a group that benefits most directly from China’s education aspirations and modernization campaign. Given their high social and spatial mobility related to education and career pursuits, it is intriguing but also difficult to follow them in panel studies. This methodology paper summarizes how the Panel Study of Nanjing High School Graduates explores different ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of an immunization outreach program on immunization rates. SETTING A Pennsylvania independent practice association model managed care organization (100% Medicaid). DESIGN Retrospective cohort study (N = 2511) of children 30 to 35 months of age from two age cohorts that compared immunization rates for Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices schedules for...

Serious games have become an indispensable part of the training compared to traditional online training that is often seen as restrictive and boring sometimes by learners. However, despite the contribution and potential of serious games in the education, their integration in the learning process is limited, this is due to the lack of tools and features of tracking and assessment of the learner/...

In response to the growing epidemic of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections, antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASP) have been rapidly implemented in the United States (US). This study examines the prevalence of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) seven core elements of a successful ASP within a large subset of US Children's Hospitals. In 2016, a survey was conducted of...

this paper proposes an efficient tracking method for velocity control of an electro-hydraulic servo system (ehss) in the presence of flow nonlinearities and internal friction. the tracking method controller is a kind of feedback error learning structure. in the proposed method, the feedback error learning (fel) algorithm is used to control the velocity. there is no need to compute the system ja...

INTRODUCTION Globally, there has been a serious health human resource (HHR) shortage for underserved populations in and outside of urban centers. This article focuses on practice education, specifically interprofessional (IP) practice education, and its impact on recruiting new health sciences graduates to populations in underserved areas as an important HHR outcome. The authors reviewed 16 art...

Abstract Educational aspirations play an important role in shaping students’ educational trajectories and destinations. Drawing on longitudinal data from the TREE2 study, this paper investigates effect of tracking formation adjustment Swiss students upon leaving compulsory school. We show that are highly responsive to track attended upper secondary education. While general education tend stick ...