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Understanding the Nonmedical Use of Prescription Medications in the U.S. High School Adolescents
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Ayres, Cynthia G.; Pontes, Nancy M.; Pontes, Manuel C. F. – Journal of School Nursing, 2017
The purpose of the study was to examine relationships between sleep insufficiency, depressive symptoms, demographic factors, and the nonmedical use of prescription medications (NMUPMs) in the U.S. high school students. Data from the 2013 Youth Risk Behavioral Surveillance System were used (n = 13,570) and analyzed using IBM SPSS 23™ (complex…
Descriptors: Drug Abuse, High School Students, Correlation, Sleep
Effect of Creative Drama on Academic Achievement: A Meta-Analytic and Thematic Analysis
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Batdi, Veli; Batdi, Hacer – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2015
The aim of this study was to determine the effect of creative drama on achievement through the use of quantitative and qualitative research methods. In the quantitative section of the research, the meta-analytic method was used and an attempt was made to include all studies of creative drama carried out between 2000 and 2014 at the national and…
Descriptors: Creativity, Drama, Effect Size, Meta Analysis
Helping Struggling Adolescent Readers: Is Implementation of Different Components of Scholastic's READ 180 Associated with Differences in Student Achievement Gains?
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Coffey, Debra J. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation uses data from the evaluation of a Striving Readers project to examine the associations between levels of implementation of different components of Scholastic's "READ 180" and student achievement as measured on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS) reading assessment. The approach was hierarchical linear modeling using…
Descriptors: Correlation, Program Implementation, Reading Achievement, Achievement Tests