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Direct linkJiang, Qi; Li, Qin – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2022
The association of overweight/obesity, and central obesity with thiocyanate (SCN), perchlorate (CIO), and nitrate (NO) in childhood and adolescence is unclear. Therefore, this study aimed to explore this association in 4447 participants comprising children and adolescents (aged 6-19 years) using data from the United States National Health and…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Obesity, Biochemistry
Roxanne Buria – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this quantitative study was to explore the impact the COVID-19 pandemic had on medical education by comparing USMLE Step 1 first attempt pass rates of examinees from US/Canadian schools in Doctor of Medicine (MD) programs from 2020-2022 to prior years' pass first attempt pass rates (2017-2019). Additionally, the effectiveness of the…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Learning Modalities, Anatomy, Comparative Analysis
Guomin Chen; Pengrun Chen; Ying Wang; Nan Zhu – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
The paper describes the research of causal relationships between the factors of technological, organizational, environmental, and personal contexts and their influence on the development of learning intentions in potential students. Its purpose was to develop a mechanism for designing a public online educational resource platform based on the…
Descriptors: MOOCs, Electronic Learning, Design, Technology Uses in Education
Niloufar Mirhashemi – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The driving theme for this research was cultural discontinuity as experienced in the American academic institutions. Cultural discontinuity is understood as a way in which the cultural practices and values of students' home culture affect the academic achievements of the students usually, resulting in low academic accomplishments. This phenomenon…
Descriptors: Females, Educational Attainment, Culture Conflict, Immigrants
Amer, Eman M.; Abd El-Maksoud, Gehan M.; Mahgoub, Emad A. – Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools & Early Intervention, 2022
In elementary school children, the normally developed integrative function may be affected influencing the learning process, peer relationships, social interactions, and behaviors. This study was conducted to assess sensory integrative function in elementary school children in Egypt. Five hundred and twenty-three elementary school children without…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Sensory Integration, Perceptual Impairments
Ben Archer; Kerry Russo; Jonathan Woodend; Josephine Pryce – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2024
This article provides a review of existing research on youth transitions within regional, remote and rural communities. Results were organised according to the Systems Theory Framework of Career Development, highlighting the importance of geographical location as an environmental influence within the career decision-making process. By deploying a…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Outcomes of Education, Geographic Location, Environmental Influences
Ana Laura Gil – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Research on language and cognitive processes in bilinguals over the past few decades has underscored the activation of words in the first language (L1) during comprehension and production of the second language (L2) (e.g., Dijkstra, Van Jaarsveld, & Ten Brinke, 1998; Van Heuven, Dijkstra, & Grainger, 1998; Hermans, Bongaerts, De Bot, &…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Native Language, Second Languages, Psycholinguistics
Black, Melissa Heather; McGarry, Sarah; Churchill, Lynn; D'Arcy, Emily; Dalgleish, Julia; Nash, Isabelle; Jones, Alisala; Tse, Tin Yan; Gibson, Jane; Bölte, Sven; Girdler, Sonya – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2022
Until recently, built environments have been designed exclusively to meet the needs of neurotypical populations; however, there is increasing recognition of the need to make built environments more accommodating for neurodiverse populations, including autistic individuals. This scoping review aims to comprehensively explore and synthesise this…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Environmental Influences, Design, Space Utilization
Dosaiguas, Marta; Pérez-Moreno, Jèssica; Gluschankof, Claudia; Costa-Giomi, Eugenia – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
This study examines musical episodes occurring in a family with two young children, collected and analysed through the Language Environment Analysis system, interpreting then using Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory to understand how the microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem and macrosystem influenced these episodes. The focus was on two…
Descriptors: Music Activities, Family Environment, Siblings, Role
Jonathan M. Levitt; Mike Thelwall; Felipe Moreira – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
This study sought to increase understanding on barriers to securing academic employment met by people with disabilities. Lindsay and Fuentes [2022. "It is Time to Address Ableism in Academia: A Systematic Review of the Experiences and Impact of Ableism among Faculty and Staff." "Disabilities" 2 (2): 178-203] pointed out the…
Descriptors: Barriers, Employment Level, Disabilities, Attitudes toward Disabilities
Colombo-Dougovito, Andrew M.; Blagrave, A. Josephine; Healy, Sean – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2021
Background: Although a growing body of literature has explored the physical activity experiences from the perspective of children on the autism spectrum, the perspective of autistic adults remains largely unheard. Due to this absence of perspective, there exists limited knowledge of the appropriateness and generalizability of current models and…
Descriptors: Adults, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Physical Activities
Vitaro, Frank; Beaver, Kevin M.; Brendgen, Mara; Dickson, Daniel J.; Dionne, Ginette; Boivin, Michel – Developmental Psychology, 2021
The goal of the present study was to replicate Burt et al. (2009) and Hou et al. (2013) findings by determining the contribution of peers' deviance to changes in participants' (monozygotic [MZ] twins') self-reported delinquency from mid- to late adolescence while controlling for possible gene-environment correlations (rGE) through the use of the…
Descriptors: Peer Influence, Twins, Delinquency, Adolescents
Tosto, Maria Grazia; Garon-Carrier, Gabrielle; Gross, Susan; Petrill, Stephen A.; Malykh, Sergey; Malki, Karim; Hart, Sara A.; Thompson, Lee; Karadaghi, Rezhaw L.; Yakovlev, Nikita; Tikhomirova, Tatiana; Opfer, John E.; Mazzocco, Michèle M. M.; Dionne, Ginette; Brendgen, Mara; Vitaro, Frank; Tremblay, Richard E.; Boivin, Michel; Kovas, Yulia – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2019
Background: The number line task assesses the ability to estimate numerical magnitudes. People vary greatly in this ability, and this variability has been previously associated with mathematical skills. However, the sources of individual differences in number line estimation and its association with mathematics are not fully understood. Aims: This…
Descriptors: Twins, Individual Differences, Computation, Mathematics Skills
Grasby, Katrina L.; Coventry, William L.; Byrne, Brian; Olson, Richard K. – Child Development, 2019
Socioeconomic status (SES) has been found to moderate the influence of genes and the environment on cognitive ability, such that genetic influence is greater when SES is higher, and the shared environment is greater when SES is lower, but not in all Western countries. The effects of both family and school SES on the heritability of literacy and…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Literacy, Numeracy, Foreign Countries
HyeYeon Kim – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This study explores the conceptual system of adult Korean learners of English with three different levels of exposure to a second language (L2) cultural background. Assuming that different exposure to an L2 socio-cultural backgrounds plays a significant role in modifying a learner's conceptual system that operates both an L1 as well as an L2…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Korean
