Motivated by the Federal Title I program to improve the Math and Language Arts learning of underachieving students of low socioeconomic status, the Education Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY) at Stanford University has developed computer-based online Math and Language Arts courses for such students in elementary and middle schools. Using several large student samples, the four-year statistical as...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Student-produced creative arts journals now exist in several medical schools. The Florida State University College of Medicine (FSUCOM) has created HEAL: Humanism Evolving through Arts and Literature. This study sought to determine what influence, if any, HEAL publications may have on medical students. METHODS A survey utilizing Likert scale questions was sent to Flo...

Two studies examined the eVect of gender stereotypes on students’ recollection of their school marks in stereotypically feminine (arts) and masculine (mathematics) domains. As predicted, the results of Study 1 indicated that the more students believed in gender stereotypes prior to recall, the more they biased their reported marks, compared to their actual marks, in a stereotype-consistent way ...

OBJECTIVE To examine academic outcomes of a community-partnered school mental health intervention for students exposed to community violence. DESIGN Randomized controlled trial. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Sixth-grade students (N = 123) from 2 middle schools in Los Angeles during the 2001-2002 academic year who had exposure to violence and posttraumatic stress symptoms in the clinical range. ...

Aim of Study. To investigate dental anxiety levels among university students and its relation with their specialty and gender. Materials and Methods. 850 undergraduate university students were recruited into the study. The Modified Corah Dental Anxiety Scale (MDAS) was used to measure the levels of their dental anxiety. 700 questionnaires were returned, 390 females and 310 males (response rate ...

Programming has become significant to students in the area of liberal arts and humanities. This research introduces the idea of engaging those students through learning flash action script production. To motivate these students to learn technical skill is to provide them an appropriate teaching instrument for learning. Developing suitable teaching tools for learning flash requires students’ eng...

A multidisciplinary dance and theatre arts program geared for high school-aged youth can result in both short-term and the long-term outcomes for its students if it seeks to offer a life-changing peak experience as part of the arts training and performance process. By integrating a combination of dance, movement, theater, music, creative and reflective writing, as well as identity exploration a...

The persistent fear of physics motivated the author to explore a new paradigm for introductory college physics that starts with symmetry and the contemporary views of spacetime, and incorporates learning strategies from the arts. Symmetry is the thematic foundation of the course, as the mathematical foundation of physics and the conceptual link between physics and the arts. I describe the curri...

Visual arts education focuses on creating original visual art products. A means to improve originality is enhancement of divergent thinking, indicated by fluency, flexibility and originality of ideas. In regular arts lessons, divergent thinking is mostly promoted through brainstorming. In a previous study, we found positive effects of an explicit instruction of metacognition on fluency and flex...