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D Schulte

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Field replication of classwide peer tutoring.

We conducted a large-scale field replication study of classwide peer tutoring applied to spelling instruction (Greenwood, Delquadri, & Hall, 1984). Two hundred and eleven inner-city students in four schools participated during their first- and second-grade school years. The effects of classwide peer tutoring were compared to teacher instructional procedures and pretest probes using a group replication design (Barlow, Hayes, & Nelson, 1984). Analysis of group and individual results indicated that (a) both teacher instructional procedures and classwide peer tutoring were effective in increasing spelling performance above pretest levels, (b) peer tutoring produced statistically greater gains relative to the teachers' procedures for both low and high student groups formed on pretest levels, (c) these outcomes were representative of groups, classes, individuals, and years during the project, and (d) participant satisfaction with the program was generally high. A separate analysis of the social importance of treatment outcome revealed differential findings for low and high groups related to pretest levels. Implications of these findings are discussed.

Achievement↗

Redefinition of school nursing practice: integrating the developmentally disabled.

Results of three needs assessment studies which had the purpose of providing direction for school nursing practices which would address some of the unmet health needs of today's children and adolescents are reported. Results provide specific examples of how school nurses have not been meeting school health needs through an analysis of one specific need -- integrating the developmentally disabled into the regular school setting. Data were collected from parents, teachers and other supportive personnel in schools by interview and survey methods. Environmental assessments were conducted and the policies and procedures governing health-related activities required by special need students were reviewed. The data indicated that for developmentally disabled students, nurses were not performing the commonly accepted functions of nursing and were not transposing their knowledge of the components of health care ordinarily provided in health care settings to care provided in nontraditional health care settings. Examples of nursing functions and the activities needed to fulfill those functions are provided.

Adolescent↗

A test of the Broen-Storms theory of cognitive deficit in schizophrenia.

Broen and Storms have developed a popular behavioristic theory to explain schizophrenic thought disorder. It holds that thought disorder results from schizophrenics' having higher drive levels and lower response-strength ceilings than non-schizophrenics. As a result, the strength of appropriate (usually strong) responses is rivaled by that of inappropriate, ordinarily-weak responses. This, in Broen and Storms' theory, is the cause of disorganized, schizophrenic behavior. We tested several hypotheses derived from Broen and Storms' assumptions that schizophrenics have higher drive and lower response strength ceilings than controls in a paired-associates learning study. We did not find support for our hypotheses that schizophrenics would show better early-trials learning than controls, that a presumably drive-inducing threat of pain would enhance early trials learning in schizophrenics or controls, that either threat of pain or schizophrenia would be associated with a low learning asymptote, or that either the positive or negative effects of pain would be accentuated in schizophrenics. The results did not support the theory.

Attention↗

Responses of high- and low-emotional deficit patients to exciting, grating, and neutral stimuli.

The preferences of high- and low-anhedonia and sensation-seeking psychiatric hospital groups for music rated as exciting, grating, and neutral, and the tendencies of these groups to modify the volume level at which they were exposed to these pieces, were compared. Volume-level choice was unrelated to anhedonia and sensation-seeking, which casts doubt on the theory that these affective deficits are mediated by efforts to reduce the quantity of incoming emotional stimulation. Anhedonia scores were not related to preferences for the three types of music. However, in contrast to high sensation-seekers, low sensation-seekers tended to dislike all types of music, and especially those rated as grating.

Acoustic Stimulation↗

[Musculoskeletal manifestations in patients after bone marrow transplantation. Initial clinical rheumatologic observations].

From January 1986 through January 1989 69 adult patients received bone marrow transplants--20 with autologous, and 49 with allogeneic bone marrow. Ten patients after autologous and 33 patients after allogeneic transplantation (TX) could be examined for rheumatological complaints. None of the patients after autologous TX displayed rheumatological manifestations; 8/33 patients after allogeneic TX developed bone necrosis and they had to be treated for several months with high daily doses of prednisolon (mean: 55 mg/day). In 18/33 patients an oligoarthropathy of large joints could be observed after a significant reduction of prednisolon dosage over a period of 5 months. In addition 15/18 of these patients later developed a chronic g-v-h-disease. The TX arthropathy may be induced by cortico-steroid therapy (resp. reduction), but most important, it is a clinical sign for an imminent chronic g-v-h-disease.

Adult↗