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Lawrence, David; Dawson, Vaille; Houghton, Stephen; Goodsell, Ben; Sawyer, Michael G – Australian Journal of Education, 2019
Mental disorders are among the most common and disabling conditions affecting children and adolescents. Patterns of school attendance among students with and without mental disorders were examined using data from the 2013-2014 Australian Child and Adolescent Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing. One in seven school students had a mental disorder…
Descriptors: Mental Disorders, Attendance Patterns, Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education
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Shapiro, Valerie B.; Kim, B. K. Elizabeth; Robitaille, Jennifer L.; LeBuffe, Paul A. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2017
The Devereux Student Strengths Assessment Mini (DESSA-Mini; Naglieri, LeBuffe, & Shapiro, 2011/2014) was designed to overcome practical obstacles to universal prevention screening. This article seeks to determine whether an entirely strength-based, 8-item screening instrument achieves technical accuracy in routine practice. Data come from a…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Screening Tests, Prevention, Accuracy
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Sun, Xiang; Allison, Carrie; Auyeung, Bonnie; Matthews, Fiona E.; Norton, Samuel; Baron-Cohen, Simon; Brayne, Carol – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2014
Limited studies have investigated the latent autistic traits in the mainland Chinese population for autism spectrum conditions (ASC). This study explored the psychometric properties of a Mandarin Chinese version of the CAST in a sample consisting of 737 children in mainstream schools and 50 autistic cases. A combination of categorical data factor…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Mandarin Chinese, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Knuth, Sean B. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
A significant body of research exists on the development of early literacy skills and their relationship to the development of literacy as a whole. Phonological awareness, orthographic processing, rapid automatized naming, phonological memory, and receptive vocabulary have all been shown to be predictive of early reading outcome measures. What is…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Early Reading, Reading Achievement
Tackett, Kathryn Klingler – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Using a multiple-gating procedure, 5 research sites (3 elementary and 2 middle schools) were identified as implementing a Response to Intervention (RTI) framework. This study uses a multiple case study design to describe the RTI implementation in reading at these 5 sites. Findings suggest that the sites studied are utilizing a hybrid model (a…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Core Curriculum, Elementary Education, Elementary Schools
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Young, I. Phillip; De La Torre, Guadalupe Xavier – Journal of School Leadership, 2006
Research addressing the attraction and selection of individuals for administrator positions is encapsulated in a structural model that depicts different phases of the employee procurement process. Within the present study, attention is devoted to the prescreening stage of the selection process, and screening decisions of superintendents are…
Descriptors: Administrators, Personnel Selection, Principals, High Schools