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The Spread of Substance Use and Delinquency between Adolescent Twins
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Laursen, Brett; Hartl, Amy C.; Vitaro, Frank; Brendgen, Mara; Dionne, Ginette; Boivin, Michel – Developmental Psychology, 2017
This investigation examines the spread of problem behaviors (substance use and delinquency) between twin siblings. A sample of 628 twins (151 male twin pairs and 163 female twin pairs) drawn from the Quebec Newborn Twin Study completed inventories describing delinquency and substance use at ages 13, 14, and 15. A 3-wave longitudinal actor-partner…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Delinquency, Adolescents, Twins
CASPer, an Online Pre-Interview Screen for Personal/Professional Characteristics: Prediction of National Licensure Scores
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Dore, Kelly L.; Reiter, Harold I.; Kreuger, Sharyn; Norman, Geoffrey R. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2017
Typically, only a minority of applicants to health professional training are invited to interview. However, pre-interview measures of cognitive skills predict for national licensure scores (Gauer et al. in "Med Educ Online" 21 2016) and subsequently licensure scores predict for performance in practice (Tamblyn et al. in "JAMA"…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Interviews, Cognitive Ability, Predictor Variables
CASPer, an Online Pre-Interview Screen for Personal/Professional Characteristics: Prediction of National Licensure Scores
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Dore, Kelly L.; Reiter, Harold I.; Kreuger, Sharyn; Norman, Geoffrey R. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2017
Typically, only a minority of applicants to health professional training are invited to interview. However, pre-interview measures of cognitive skills predict for national licensure scores (Gauer et al. in "Med Educ Online" 21 2016) and subsequently licensure scores predict for performance in practice (Tamblyn et al. in "JAMA"…
Descriptors: Interviews, Thinking Skills, Certification, Predictor Variables
Substance Abuse among High-Risk Sexual Offenders: Do Measures of Lifetime History of Substance Abuse Add to the Prediction of Recidivism over Actuarial Risk Assessment Instruments?
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Looman, Jan; Abracen, Jeffrey – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011
There has been relatively little research on the degree to which measures of lifetime history of substance abuse add to the prediction of risk based on actuarial measures alone among sexual offenders. This issue is of relevance in that a history of substance abuse is related to relapse to substance using behavior. Furthermore, substance use has…
Descriptors: Recidivism, Sexual Abuse, Screening Tests, Drug Abuse
Knowledge of Breast Cancer and Screening Practices
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Vahabi, Mandana – Health Education Journal, 2005
Objective: To assess young women's breast health knowledge and explore its relation to the use of screening mammography. Methods: A convenience sample of 180 women aged 25-45 residing in Toronto, Canada, with no history of breast cancer and mammography received an information brochure and four questionnaires which assessed their knowledge of…
Descriptors: Health Education, Females, Cancer, Foreign Countries
Assessment of Readiness for Primary French Immersion: Kindergarten Follow-Up Assessment.
Trites, R. L.; Price M. A. – 1979
A program for early identification of children who are a high risk for failure in a primary French immersion program was undertaken in Ontario, Canada. As the last year of a three-year project, the investigation was designed to identify a set of variables predictive of success or failure in the primary program. The predictive validity of measures…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academic Achievement, English, French