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Academic and Vocational Functioning
1994For patients who wish to return to school or who would like to learn a new occupation because of an inability to return to a previous occupation due to injury, the likelihood of success in an educational setting is a crucial issue. The kind of course work, the instructional method and social setting of the educational institution, and the cognitive and
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The function of academic and non-academic criteria in employers' selection strategies
British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 1980Abstract The different ways in which employers use educational qualifications and non-academic criteria in their recruitment and selection of young people are explored. Five different types of selection strategy are identified, each of which is characterised by a different balance between the use of academic and non-academic criteria.
D. N. Ashton, M. J. Maguire
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Hemophilia morbidity, cognitive functioning, and academic achievement
The Journal of Pediatrics, 1998Data from the Hemophilia Growth and Development Study (HGDS) were used to evaluate the association between hemophilia morbidity, measured by abnormalities in coordination and gait (CG), and intellectual ability and academic achievement. The CG abnormalities observed in the HGDS participants (n = 333) were primarily due to hemophilia-related morbidity ...
D W, Usner +5 more
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Organization and function of academic psychiatric emergency services
General Hospital Psychiatry, 2003Psychiatric emergency services (PES) are evolving as freestanding, parallel components of emergency departments at many tertiary care medical centers in the U.S. While PES facilities provide an increasing percentage of first-line care for patients with psychiatric crises, the services they provide and their interactions with medical emergency services ...
Glenn W, Currier, Michael, Allen
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Self-Acceptance in Females as a Function of Academic Achievement
Psychological Reports, 1976Three background measures and scores on Berger's self-acceptance scale for 50 freshmen and 50 seniors (25 men, 25 women), and for 25 men and 29 women above the rank of assistant professor were factor analyzed by the principal components method. After rotation to simple structure by the varimax method, eight factors were identified.
C B, Pinson, B, Caffrey
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Academic achievement in high functioning autistic individuals
Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 1994Academic achievement levels in 54 high functioning (IQ > 70) autistic subjects were compared with those of 41 normal controls, who did not differ significantly in age, IQ, gender, race, or SES from the autistic subjects. The measures of academic achievement used included portions of the Detroit Tests of Learning Aptitude-2, the Woodcock Reading Mastery
N J, Minshew +3 more
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Administrative structure for academic function
Medical Teacher, 1995The Faculty of Medicine in Newcastle, Australia, established an integrated curriculum in medicine and an organizational matrix structure to support it in which academic departments as such did not exist. As the faculty expanded its responsibility to other health professional programmes and semi-independent academic centres the organizational structure ...
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Multifaceted Impact of Self-Efficacy Beliefs on Academic Functioning
Child Development, 1996This research analyzed the network of psychosocial influences through which efficacy beliefs affect academic achievement. Parents' sense of academic efficacy and aspirations for their children were linked to their children's scholastic achievement through their perceived academic capabilities and aspirations.
BANDURA A. +3 more
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Effect of Exercise on Academic Functioning
Regular physical activity has a useful impact on both learning and health and contributes significantly to academic progress. The main goal of studying the relationship between exercise and academic performance is to provide appropriate guidance to trainers, policy makers and health practitioners to incorporate physical activity into the education ...Manu Mehrotra +3 more
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Scholarly hyperwriting: The function of links in academic weblogs
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2008AbstractWeblogs are gaining momentum as one of most versatile tools for online scholarly communication. Since academic weblogs tend to be used by scholars to position themselves in a disciplinary blogging community, links are essential to their construction.
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