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Direct linkCaleb D. Marsh – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The official stance of the Association America of Medical Colleges (AAMC) regarding the undergraduate major of applicants for admission to medical school is that there are no required or preferred majors. While the AAMC is the body that governs admission to allopathic medical schools in the United States, this statement does not provide clarity to…
Descriptors: Medical Schools, Undergraduate Students, Majors (Students), College Admission
Peer reviewedMewhort-Buist, Tracy A.; Nilsen, Elizabeth S.; Bowman-Smith, Celina K. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2020
The present study examined how school-age children's communicative decisions are influenced by the situation, their social partner, and their own characteristics (gender, shyness levels, and history of peer relationships). Children (8-12 years old, N=246) imagined themselves in social scenarios (depicted through comics) and indicated the…
Descriptors: Children, Preadolescents, Interpersonal Communication, Decision Making
Download full textPolka, Walter; Litchka, Peter; Mete, Rosina; Ayaga, Augustine – Journal of Catholic Education, 2016
The authors of the article outline a historical review of Catholic education and student enrollment in North America and a recent perspective of Catholic school principals' decision-making and problem-solving preferences. The purpose of this article is to provide the reader with an understanding of events which impacted the evolution of Catholic…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Principals, Decision Making, Problem Solving
Humble, Aine M.; Keefe, Janice M.; Auton, Greg M. – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2012
Using the concept of "retirement congruency" (RC), which takes into account greater variation in retirement decisions (low, moderate, or high RC) than a dichotomous conceptualization (forced versus chosen), multinomial logistic regression was conducted on a sample of caregivers from the 2002 Canadian General Social Survey who were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Retirement, Decision Making, Personal Autonomy
Williams, Robert J.; Wood, Robert T.; Currie, Shawn R. – Journal of Primary Prevention, 2010
School-based prevention programs are an important component of problem gambling prevention, but empirically effective programs are lacking. Stacked Deck is a set of 5-6 interactive lessons that teach about the history of gambling; the true odds and "house edge"; gambling fallacies; signs, risk factors, and causes of problem gambling; and…
Descriptors: Negative Attitudes, Prevention, At Risk Persons, Problem Solving
Johnson, David R.; Rahman, Fiona T. – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2005
The study uses individual data from the Canadian Labour Force Survey to consider economic factors in university participation decisions by persons aged 17-24 from 1976 to 2003. The level of real tuition is one economic factor that may affect the university participation decision. There is also regional variation in the opportunity cost of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Decision Making, Probability, Paying for College
