Parent engagement (i.e., enrollment, ongoing attendance, participation quality) remains a major o... more Parent engagement (i.e., enrollment, ongoing attendance, participation quality) remains a major obstacle to fully realizing the benefits of evidence-based preventive parent management training in community settings. We describe an approach to parent engagement that addresses the myriad motivational, cognitive, and pragmatic barriers parents face by embedding services in Head Start and applying a parent engagement model, the Family Check Up, as a pre-intervention to augment parent training. In this article, we present the rationale for applying FCU to advance parent readiness for engagement and we describe the process by which we partnered with the community to modify FCU to be most impactful for enhancing parent engagement in one specific program, the Incredible Years Parenting Series. We conclude with preliminary data from our ongoing pilot trial that supports our approach.
Journal of Aggression Maltreatment Trauma, May 15, 2009
... E-mail: Rachel.Goldsmith@va.gov ... Underreporting, whether caused by disrup-tions in awarene... more ... E-mail: Rachel.Goldsmith@va.gov ... Underreporting, whether caused by disrup-tions in awareness and memory of abuse (Freyd, DePrince, & Gleaves, 2007; Herman, 1992; Linehan, 1993) or the stigmatic and secretive nature of abuse (eg, Wekerle et al., 2001, p. 850), may ...
Community organizations and treatment settings are increasingly implementing evidence-based preve... more Community organizations and treatment settings are increasingly implementing evidence-based prevention programs and practices (EBPs) that promote well-being and reduce risk for mental health concerns among children and families. Unfortunately, when EBPs are implemented in these “real world” settings, they typically yield smaller effect sizes than those found in clinical trials and/or are underutilized over time. This is likely due to limited guidance about how to implement EBPs sustainably and with fidelity. Thus, it is important to identify the barriers and facilitators of successful implementation as this will lead to the development of effective service delivery and implementation models for community settings. Ultimately, this line of research can increase the public health impact of EBPs. Data comes from our work embedding universal early childhood screening and early childhood mental health consultation into community pediatric primary care clinics serving high-risk children a...
Disease prevention and health promotion rely on early identification of risk factors or early mar... more Disease prevention and health promotion rely on early identification of risk factors or early markers of disease process. In the domain of early social and behavioral development, pediatric primary care settings provide a unique opportunity to find those individuals who might benefit from interventions that would promote long-term health and adaptive development. Large scale screening presents many challenges, foremost among them choice of instruments, sensitivity and specificity of screens, and procedures for addressing children who screen positive. Our screening effort was focused on children in the first 5 years of life, and conducted in two primary care settings serving families on public assistance. We used 3 instruments with some demonstrated validity: the Ages and Stages Questionnaire Version 3 (ASQ3), the Ages and Stages Questionnaire Social Emotional (ASQ-SE), and the Early Childhood Screening Assessment (ECSA). The screening efforts were staffed by a combination of behavio...
Two experiments examined the effects of iterated polling and feedback on prediction accuracy for ... more Two experiments examined the effects of iterated polling and feedback on prediction accuracy for volatile world events using the Delphi paradigm. In both experiments, participants predicted rapidly changing geopolitical events. The first experiment occurred during the litigation surrounding the Clinton/Lewinsky affair in 1998. Results indicated that feedback improved individual and group accuracy for predictions of whether an event would occur. These types of predictions derived from group consensus were approximately 90% accurate, which was significantly higher than the average individual participant's accuracy. Neither polling nor feedback had much effect on time course predictions. The second experiment occurred during the American military action against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan in 2001. In Experiment 2, participants were polled three times to determine if increasing the number of iterated polls would improve Delphi accuracy. The results showed that accuracy improved from the first to the second poll but not from the second to the third. The groups predicted whether these scenarios would occur with approximately 75% accuracy, which was significantly higher than the accuracy of any individual participant. Once again, the Delphi procedure did not enhance time course predictions in Experiment 2. D
Journal of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation, 2002
Amnion apoptosis is part of a programmed process of fetal membrane remodeling leading to weakenin... more Amnion apoptosis is part of a programmed process of fetal membrane remodeling leading to weakening and rupture. The apoptotic agent lactosylceramide is elevated in amniotic fluid of premature infants with rupture of membranes. We have shown that apoptosis in WISH cells, induced by staurosporine, cycloheximide, or actinomycin D, can be blocked by cyclooxygenase inhibitors, suggesting a relationship between prostaglandin production and apoptosis. Cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) is known to inhibit prostaglandin release in amnion and WISH cells. This study was undertaken to determine the apoptotic potential of lactosylceramide and the effect of cyclooxygenase inhibitors and cAMP activators on lactosylceramide-induced apoptosis in primary amnion and WISH cells. Primary amnion cells and WISH cells were incubated with lactosylceramide to determine apoptosis and prostaglandin E(2) (PGE(2)) release. Apoptosis was confirmed by agarose gel electrophoretic DNA fragmentation analysis, nuclear matrix protein (NMP), and nucleosome enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. In some studies, cells were preincubated with cyclooxygenase inhibitors or cAMP activators. Lactosylceramide induced a 20-fold increase in NMP (measure of cell death) in both cell types. Apoptosis was confirmed by the studies listed in methods. Lactosylceramide increased PGE(2) release in parallel with apoptosis. Cyclooxygenase inhibitors as well as cAMP activators inhibited both PGE(2) release and apoptosis. Lactosylceramide-induced apoptosis in both amnion and WISH cells. Parallel PGE(2) release was demonstrated with apoptosis. Cyclooxygenase inhibitors and cAMP activators blocked both processes.
This study utilized growth mixture modeling to examine the impact of parents, child care provider... more This study utilized growth mixture modeling to examine the impact of parents, child care providers, teachers, and peers on the prediction of distinct developmental patterns of classroom externalizing behavior in elementary school. Among 241 children, three groups were identified. 84.6% of children exhibited consistently low externalizing behavior. The externalizing behavior of the Chronic High group (5.8%) remained elevated throughout elementary school; it increased over time in the Low Increasing group (9.5%). Negative relationships with teachers and peers in the kindergarten classroom increased the odds of having chronically high externalizing behavior. Teacher-child conflict increased the likelihood of a developmental pattern of escalating externalizing behavior. Boys were overrepresented in the behaviorally risky groups, and no sex differences in trajectory types were found.
The unique and interactive contributions of past externalizing behavior, negative parenting, and ... more The unique and interactive contributions of past externalizing behavior, negative parenting, and teacher-child relationship quality to externalizing behavior trajectories after the transition to school were examined. In a sample of 283 children, random regression analyses indicated that conflict in the teacher-child relationship during the school transition contributed to faster rates of increase in externalizing behavior from kindergarten through third grade above and beyond negative parenting and initial levels of externalizing behavior. A significant interaction between teacher-child closeness and the externalizing behavior intercept indicated that decreases in externalizing behavior were associated with teacher-child closeness, especially for children with the highest levels of externalizing behavior upon school entry. Family socioeconomic status and initial levels of classroom externalizing behavior in kindergarten were also significant contributors to the prediction of externalizing behavior trajectories.
Parent engagement (i.e., enrollment, ongoing attendance, participation quality) remains a major o... more Parent engagement (i.e., enrollment, ongoing attendance, participation quality) remains a major obstacle to fully realizing the benefits of evidence-based preventive parent management training in community settings. We describe an approach to parent engagement that addresses the myriad motivational, cognitive, and pragmatic barriers parents face by embedding services in Head Start and applying a parent engagement model, the Family Check Up, as a pre-intervention to augment parent training. In this article, we present the rationale for applying FCU to advance parent readiness for engagement and we describe the process by which we partnered with the community to modify FCU to be most impactful for enhancing parent engagement in one specific program, the Incredible Years Parenting Series. We conclude with preliminary data from our ongoing pilot trial that supports our approach.
Biomonitoring for Physiological and Cognitive Performance during Military Operations, 2005
Recent evidence indicates that poor autonomic regulation, indexed by decreased heart period varia... more Recent evidence indicates that poor autonomic regulation, indexed by decreased heart period variability (HPV), is associated with decreased working memory. HPV analyses are computed on the interbeat interval time series derived from the electrocardiogram (EKG). Unfortunately, the duration of the data collection and the issue of the size of ambulatory monitors with sufficient storage capacity for multi-day records is somewhat
There is a dearth of systematic studies of expressive writing disorder (EWD) in persons with Trau... more There is a dearth of systematic studies of expressive writing disorder (EWD) in persons with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). It is unclear if TBI survivors' written expression differs significantly from that experienced by persons with learning disabilities. It is also unclear which cognitive or neuropsychological variables predict problems with expressive writing (EW) or the EWD. This study investigated the EW skill, and the EWD in adults with mild traumatic brain injuries (TBI) relative to those with learning disabilities (LD). It also determined which of several cognitive variables predicted EW and EWD. Principle Component Analysis (PCA) of writing samples from 28 LD participants and 28 TBI survivors revealed four components of expressive writing skills: Reading Ease, Sentence Fluency, Grammar and Spelling, and Paragraph Fluency. There were no significant differences between the LD and TBI groups on any of the expressive writing components. Several neuropsychological variables ...
Typically, blood pressure variability has been calculated by taking the simple mathematical stand... more Typically, blood pressure variability has been calculated by taking the simple mathematical standard deviations of a collection of discrete blood pressure (BP) measurements. Recently, spectral analytic techniques have been employed to examine beat-to-beat blood pressure variability and the underlying autonomic adjustments associated with the performance of various tasks. In the present study, beat-to-beat blood pressure was examined in 104 older African-Americans males and females who were part of the Healthy Aging in Nationally Diverse Longitudinal Samples (HANDLS) Study. Participants evaluated faces and sentences depicting emotional content and rested before (Baseline) and after (Recovery) the tasks. There were no significant gender effects in any analyses. In addition, there were no significant task effects. However, there was a trend for both low and high frequency systolic blood pressure variability to decrease linearly from baseline, through faces and sentences to recovery. In...
Reduced arterial compliance has been implicated as a risk factor for future cardiovascular events... more Reduced arterial compliance has been implicated as a risk factor for future cardiovascular events in hypertensive patients. Recently, several non-invasive techniques have been used to access arterial compliance. However, comparisons of these techniques with older individuals and African-Americans have not been done. In the present study, beat-to-beat blood pressure was examined in 75 males and females (n = 24 old Caucasian; n = 24 young Caucasian; n = 27 African-Americans) who were part of the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging (BLSA). Resting beat-to-beat blood pressure (5 minutes) was assessed using the PORTAPRES Ambulatory Blood Pressure Device. Results indicated that the three-element windkessel and the stroke volume-pulse pressure ratio measures of arterial compliance provide comparable estimates. Specifically, arterial compliance is reduced in the oldest individuals in our sample with young and African-Americans showing higher compliance. These results indicate that the sim...
This study presents a method for assessing subjective organization (SO) after brain injury and te... more This study presents a method for assessing subjective organization (SO) after brain injury and techniques for planning cognitive rehabilitation therapy based on the survivor's SO ability. Eighty-seven college students, 50 persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI), and 30 participants with specific learning disability (SLD) learned two overlapping lists of unrelated nouns in which half of the second list were words that the person had learned on the first list. The study assessed whether different patterns of recall for the overlapping words versus the new words on the second list would discriminate persons with brain injury relative to college students and persons with SLD. The results indicated that college students and the SLD participants showed significantly diminished recall of overlapping words on the second list. However, the TBI participants showed significantly improved recall of the overlapping words. The results indicated that this task provides a simple diagnostic as...
Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal, 2004
... 413 Rebecca Silver, MA, and Rick Parente, PhD, Psychology Department, Towson University, Mary... more ... 413 Rebecca Silver, MA, and Rick Parente, PhD, Psychology Department, Towson University, Maryland, USA. ... Female positivity Another goal of this study was to evaluate the female positivity hypothesis, which states that women rate others more positively than men do. ...
... To measure attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors regarding parental involve-ment in their childre... more ... To measure attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors regarding parental involve-ment in their children's education, an interview protocol was devised to address four key points: beliefs regarding parentalinvolvement, school-based parental involvement, home-based parental ...
Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 2007
Two experiments compared the subjective organization of memory in college students and persons wi... more Two experiments compared the subjective organization of memory in college students and persons with brain injury using a part-whole list-learning task. Previous research attributed the negative transfer of learning that college students experience in the part-whole task to their inability to reorganize part-list words when learning the whole list. We reasoned that persons with brain injury would not experience negative transfer of learning in the part-whole paradigm because of their limited organizational skills. Experiment 1 replicated the usual negative transfer of learning with college students. Experiment 2 showed that brain-injured participants did not experience the same negative transfer of learning effects during the same task.
Parent engagement (i.e., enrollment, ongoing attendance, participation quality) remains a major o... more Parent engagement (i.e., enrollment, ongoing attendance, participation quality) remains a major obstacle to fully realizing the benefits of evidence-based preventive parent management training in community settings. We describe an approach to parent engagement that addresses the myriad motivational, cognitive, and pragmatic barriers parents face by embedding services in Head Start and applying a parent engagement model, the Family Check Up, as a pre-intervention to augment parent training. In this article, we present the rationale for applying FCU to advance parent readiness for engagement and we describe the process by which we partnered with the community to modify FCU to be most impactful for enhancing parent engagement in one specific program, the Incredible Years Parenting Series. We conclude with preliminary data from our ongoing pilot trial that supports our approach.
Journal of Aggression Maltreatment Trauma, May 15, 2009
... E-mail: Rachel.Goldsmith@va.gov ... Underreporting, whether caused by disrup-tions in awarene... more ... E-mail: Rachel.Goldsmith@va.gov ... Underreporting, whether caused by disrup-tions in awareness and memory of abuse (Freyd, DePrince, & Gleaves, 2007; Herman, 1992; Linehan, 1993) or the stigmatic and secretive nature of abuse (eg, Wekerle et al., 2001, p. 850), may ...
Community organizations and treatment settings are increasingly implementing evidence-based preve... more Community organizations and treatment settings are increasingly implementing evidence-based prevention programs and practices (EBPs) that promote well-being and reduce risk for mental health concerns among children and families. Unfortunately, when EBPs are implemented in these “real world” settings, they typically yield smaller effect sizes than those found in clinical trials and/or are underutilized over time. This is likely due to limited guidance about how to implement EBPs sustainably and with fidelity. Thus, it is important to identify the barriers and facilitators of successful implementation as this will lead to the development of effective service delivery and implementation models for community settings. Ultimately, this line of research can increase the public health impact of EBPs. Data comes from our work embedding universal early childhood screening and early childhood mental health consultation into community pediatric primary care clinics serving high-risk children a...
Disease prevention and health promotion rely on early identification of risk factors or early mar... more Disease prevention and health promotion rely on early identification of risk factors or early markers of disease process. In the domain of early social and behavioral development, pediatric primary care settings provide a unique opportunity to find those individuals who might benefit from interventions that would promote long-term health and adaptive development. Large scale screening presents many challenges, foremost among them choice of instruments, sensitivity and specificity of screens, and procedures for addressing children who screen positive. Our screening effort was focused on children in the first 5 years of life, and conducted in two primary care settings serving families on public assistance. We used 3 instruments with some demonstrated validity: the Ages and Stages Questionnaire Version 3 (ASQ3), the Ages and Stages Questionnaire Social Emotional (ASQ-SE), and the Early Childhood Screening Assessment (ECSA). The screening efforts were staffed by a combination of behavio...
Two experiments examined the effects of iterated polling and feedback on prediction accuracy for ... more Two experiments examined the effects of iterated polling and feedback on prediction accuracy for volatile world events using the Delphi paradigm. In both experiments, participants predicted rapidly changing geopolitical events. The first experiment occurred during the litigation surrounding the Clinton/Lewinsky affair in 1998. Results indicated that feedback improved individual and group accuracy for predictions of whether an event would occur. These types of predictions derived from group consensus were approximately 90% accurate, which was significantly higher than the average individual participant's accuracy. Neither polling nor feedback had much effect on time course predictions. The second experiment occurred during the American military action against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan in 2001. In Experiment 2, participants were polled three times to determine if increasing the number of iterated polls would improve Delphi accuracy. The results showed that accuracy improved from the first to the second poll but not from the second to the third. The groups predicted whether these scenarios would occur with approximately 75% accuracy, which was significantly higher than the accuracy of any individual participant. Once again, the Delphi procedure did not enhance time course predictions in Experiment 2. D
Journal of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation, 2002
Amnion apoptosis is part of a programmed process of fetal membrane remodeling leading to weakenin... more Amnion apoptosis is part of a programmed process of fetal membrane remodeling leading to weakening and rupture. The apoptotic agent lactosylceramide is elevated in amniotic fluid of premature infants with rupture of membranes. We have shown that apoptosis in WISH cells, induced by staurosporine, cycloheximide, or actinomycin D, can be blocked by cyclooxygenase inhibitors, suggesting a relationship between prostaglandin production and apoptosis. Cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) is known to inhibit prostaglandin release in amnion and WISH cells. This study was undertaken to determine the apoptotic potential of lactosylceramide and the effect of cyclooxygenase inhibitors and cAMP activators on lactosylceramide-induced apoptosis in primary amnion and WISH cells. Primary amnion cells and WISH cells were incubated with lactosylceramide to determine apoptosis and prostaglandin E(2) (PGE(2)) release. Apoptosis was confirmed by agarose gel electrophoretic DNA fragmentation analysis, nuclear matrix protein (NMP), and nucleosome enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. In some studies, cells were preincubated with cyclooxygenase inhibitors or cAMP activators. Lactosylceramide induced a 20-fold increase in NMP (measure of cell death) in both cell types. Apoptosis was confirmed by the studies listed in methods. Lactosylceramide increased PGE(2) release in parallel with apoptosis. Cyclooxygenase inhibitors as well as cAMP activators inhibited both PGE(2) release and apoptosis. Lactosylceramide-induced apoptosis in both amnion and WISH cells. Parallel PGE(2) release was demonstrated with apoptosis. Cyclooxygenase inhibitors and cAMP activators blocked both processes.
This study utilized growth mixture modeling to examine the impact of parents, child care provider... more This study utilized growth mixture modeling to examine the impact of parents, child care providers, teachers, and peers on the prediction of distinct developmental patterns of classroom externalizing behavior in elementary school. Among 241 children, three groups were identified. 84.6% of children exhibited consistently low externalizing behavior. The externalizing behavior of the Chronic High group (5.8%) remained elevated throughout elementary school; it increased over time in the Low Increasing group (9.5%). Negative relationships with teachers and peers in the kindergarten classroom increased the odds of having chronically high externalizing behavior. Teacher-child conflict increased the likelihood of a developmental pattern of escalating externalizing behavior. Boys were overrepresented in the behaviorally risky groups, and no sex differences in trajectory types were found.
The unique and interactive contributions of past externalizing behavior, negative parenting, and ... more The unique and interactive contributions of past externalizing behavior, negative parenting, and teacher-child relationship quality to externalizing behavior trajectories after the transition to school were examined. In a sample of 283 children, random regression analyses indicated that conflict in the teacher-child relationship during the school transition contributed to faster rates of increase in externalizing behavior from kindergarten through third grade above and beyond negative parenting and initial levels of externalizing behavior. A significant interaction between teacher-child closeness and the externalizing behavior intercept indicated that decreases in externalizing behavior were associated with teacher-child closeness, especially for children with the highest levels of externalizing behavior upon school entry. Family socioeconomic status and initial levels of classroom externalizing behavior in kindergarten were also significant contributors to the prediction of externalizing behavior trajectories.
Parent engagement (i.e., enrollment, ongoing attendance, participation quality) remains a major o... more Parent engagement (i.e., enrollment, ongoing attendance, participation quality) remains a major obstacle to fully realizing the benefits of evidence-based preventive parent management training in community settings. We describe an approach to parent engagement that addresses the myriad motivational, cognitive, and pragmatic barriers parents face by embedding services in Head Start and applying a parent engagement model, the Family Check Up, as a pre-intervention to augment parent training. In this article, we present the rationale for applying FCU to advance parent readiness for engagement and we describe the process by which we partnered with the community to modify FCU to be most impactful for enhancing parent engagement in one specific program, the Incredible Years Parenting Series. We conclude with preliminary data from our ongoing pilot trial that supports our approach.
Biomonitoring for Physiological and Cognitive Performance during Military Operations, 2005
Recent evidence indicates that poor autonomic regulation, indexed by decreased heart period varia... more Recent evidence indicates that poor autonomic regulation, indexed by decreased heart period variability (HPV), is associated with decreased working memory. HPV analyses are computed on the interbeat interval time series derived from the electrocardiogram (EKG). Unfortunately, the duration of the data collection and the issue of the size of ambulatory monitors with sufficient storage capacity for multi-day records is somewhat
There is a dearth of systematic studies of expressive writing disorder (EWD) in persons with Trau... more There is a dearth of systematic studies of expressive writing disorder (EWD) in persons with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). It is unclear if TBI survivors' written expression differs significantly from that experienced by persons with learning disabilities. It is also unclear which cognitive or neuropsychological variables predict problems with expressive writing (EW) or the EWD. This study investigated the EW skill, and the EWD in adults with mild traumatic brain injuries (TBI) relative to those with learning disabilities (LD). It also determined which of several cognitive variables predicted EW and EWD. Principle Component Analysis (PCA) of writing samples from 28 LD participants and 28 TBI survivors revealed four components of expressive writing skills: Reading Ease, Sentence Fluency, Grammar and Spelling, and Paragraph Fluency. There were no significant differences between the LD and TBI groups on any of the expressive writing components. Several neuropsychological variables ...
Typically, blood pressure variability has been calculated by taking the simple mathematical stand... more Typically, blood pressure variability has been calculated by taking the simple mathematical standard deviations of a collection of discrete blood pressure (BP) measurements. Recently, spectral analytic techniques have been employed to examine beat-to-beat blood pressure variability and the underlying autonomic adjustments associated with the performance of various tasks. In the present study, beat-to-beat blood pressure was examined in 104 older African-Americans males and females who were part of the Healthy Aging in Nationally Diverse Longitudinal Samples (HANDLS) Study. Participants evaluated faces and sentences depicting emotional content and rested before (Baseline) and after (Recovery) the tasks. There were no significant gender effects in any analyses. In addition, there were no significant task effects. However, there was a trend for both low and high frequency systolic blood pressure variability to decrease linearly from baseline, through faces and sentences to recovery. In...
Reduced arterial compliance has been implicated as a risk factor for future cardiovascular events... more Reduced arterial compliance has been implicated as a risk factor for future cardiovascular events in hypertensive patients. Recently, several non-invasive techniques have been used to access arterial compliance. However, comparisons of these techniques with older individuals and African-Americans have not been done. In the present study, beat-to-beat blood pressure was examined in 75 males and females (n = 24 old Caucasian; n = 24 young Caucasian; n = 27 African-Americans) who were part of the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging (BLSA). Resting beat-to-beat blood pressure (5 minutes) was assessed using the PORTAPRES Ambulatory Blood Pressure Device. Results indicated that the three-element windkessel and the stroke volume-pulse pressure ratio measures of arterial compliance provide comparable estimates. Specifically, arterial compliance is reduced in the oldest individuals in our sample with young and African-Americans showing higher compliance. These results indicate that the sim...
This study presents a method for assessing subjective organization (SO) after brain injury and te... more This study presents a method for assessing subjective organization (SO) after brain injury and techniques for planning cognitive rehabilitation therapy based on the survivor's SO ability. Eighty-seven college students, 50 persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI), and 30 participants with specific learning disability (SLD) learned two overlapping lists of unrelated nouns in which half of the second list were words that the person had learned on the first list. The study assessed whether different patterns of recall for the overlapping words versus the new words on the second list would discriminate persons with brain injury relative to college students and persons with SLD. The results indicated that college students and the SLD participants showed significantly diminished recall of overlapping words on the second list. However, the TBI participants showed significantly improved recall of the overlapping words. The results indicated that this task provides a simple diagnostic as...
Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal, 2004
... 413 Rebecca Silver, MA, and Rick Parente, PhD, Psychology Department, Towson University, Mary... more ... 413 Rebecca Silver, MA, and Rick Parente, PhD, Psychology Department, Towson University, Maryland, USA. ... Female positivity Another goal of this study was to evaluate the female positivity hypothesis, which states that women rate others more positively than men do. ...
... To measure attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors regarding parental involve-ment in their childre... more ... To measure attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors regarding parental involve-ment in their children's education, an interview protocol was devised to address four key points: beliefs regarding parentalinvolvement, school-based parental involvement, home-based parental ...
Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 2007
Two experiments compared the subjective organization of memory in college students and persons wi... more Two experiments compared the subjective organization of memory in college students and persons with brain injury using a part-whole list-learning task. Previous research attributed the negative transfer of learning that college students experience in the part-whole task to their inability to reorganize part-list words when learning the whole list. We reasoned that persons with brain injury would not experience negative transfer of learning in the part-whole paradigm because of their limited organizational skills. Experiment 1 replicated the usual negative transfer of learning with college students. Experiment 2 showed that brain-injured participants did not experience the same negative transfer of learning effects during the same task.
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