The existing empirical work on educational production functions provides powerful insights into a positive theory of the allocation of educational expenditures. An optimizing model of expenditure allocations predicts that input use should be chosen so that the marginal product per dollar of each input is equalized. In decided contrast, the existing literature shows that the marginal product per...

The purpose of the study is to present the possibility of the application in the field of education this highly interesting and promising trend in the psychology which is the positive psychology. For this reason the origins as well as an outline of the interest scope of this relatively recent, dating back only over 10 years, trend are shown. A crucial question has become in this context the exa...

OBJECTIVE Socioeconomic disadvantage is associated with poorer behavioral and emotional outcomes in children with asthma. This study investigated the associations between maternal income and education and naturalistically observed behaviors and affect during everyday parent-child interactions. METHODS 53 predominantly low-income youth with asthma, aged 10-17 years, wore a naturalistic event-s...

Collaborative learning is a widely used instructional method, but the learning potential of this instructional method is often underused in practice. Therefore, the importance of various factors underlying effective collaborative learning should be determined. In the current study, five different life sciences undergraduate courses with successful collaborative-learning results were selected. T...

" The capacity of public universities to meet Australia's higher education needs " and covers some of the same material of Chapman (2001) and Chapman and Salvage (2001).

A longitudinal matched control study was conducted to evaluate the effects on young people (n = 1,280) of talks by HIV-positive speakers who disclose their personal perspective of living with HIV. Focus-group discussions with students (n = 117) were used to elucidate the impact. Meeting HIV-positive people decreased fear and prejudice, reinforced messages about protective behavior and increased...