background: in people over 50, one out of three women and 12 men experience osteoporosis. youth lifestyle plays an essential role in increasing bone mass and preventing osteoporosis in old ages. thus, lifestyle changes during adolescence could cause the prevention of osteoporosis in older age. this study therefore conducted to investigate the lifestyle of female high school students in relation...

social anxiety disorder is a debilitating and chronic illness characterized by persistent fear of one or more social or performance situations, with a relatively high lifetime prevalence of 7% to 13% in the general population and various factors are involved in its creation. one of the factors that affect this disorder is personality trait. the present study compared the personality trait in ad...

With the growing trend in many subjects to deliver at least some part of examinations by computer, it is important to know whether there are any differences in the results obtained by candidates sitting examinations taken by computer compared to those obtained by candidates sitting conventional examinations using pen and paper. The purpose of this paper is to describe a pilot project to compare...

To what extent do high school students’ course grades align with their scores on standardized college admission tests? People sometimes make the argument that are “inflated”, but many districts only use outcome-based descriptive methods for evaluation. In order to answer question, this paper proposes econometric models panel data, which less well-known in educational particular, fixed-effects a...

98 words]: This paper makes use of the regional variation in schooling legislation within the German secondary education system to estimate the causal effect of central exit examinations on student performance. We propose alternative difference-in-differences estimators that exploit the quasi-experimental nature of the national TIMSS middle school sample. The estimates show that students in fed...

In the past twelve years (1997-2009), Brunei Darussalam has implemented three major educational policies: (1) inclusive education, in 1998; (2) the National Education System for the 21 Century known in Malay as Sistem Pendidikan Negara Abad 21 or SPN21, 2008; and (3) education for the gifted / talented students, 2009. These changes are partly designed to diversify and broaden the provision of e...

Singapore is a small country compared to Pakistan. Being an urban modern developed nation with a high population density, adequate doctors (& specialists), and good infrastructure, it has one medical school enrolling 200 students annually, one Graduate School of Medical Studies (GSMS) responsible for entry postgraduate examinations (the M Med) and one Academy of Medicine (AM) responsible (joint...

this research aimed at studying and comparing the effectiveness of cognitive-behaviora parents training metods with pretest-posttest control group design. to do so, six classes were randomly selected among the second grade classes of junior high schools in esfahan province. eliss pop's self-esteem test was used as the pretest and 15 students whose self-esteem scores were below the cut-off ...