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Jansen, J.; Rozeboom, W.; Penning, C.; Evenhuis, H. M. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2013
Background: Epidemiological information on age-related cardiovascular disease in people with intellectual disability (ID) is scarce and inconclusive. We compared prevalence and incidence of cerebrovascular accident and myocardial infarction over age 50 in a residential population with ID to that in a general practice population. Method: Lifetime…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Aging (Individuals), Heart Disorders, Incidence
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Helms-Lorenz, Michelle; van de Grift, Wim; Maulana, Ridwan – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2016
The teaching profession faces a shortage as well as a decline of teaching skills. A possible way to mitigate this is to implement evidence-based induction arrangements. Seventy-one schools with 338 beginning secondary education teachers were randomly allocated to an experimental or a control group. The experimental schools used induction…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, Beginning Teacher Induction, Teaching Skills
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van de Grift, Wim – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2009
Instability in the school population between school entrance and school leaving is not "just a problem of missing data" but often the visible result of the educational problems in some schools and is, therefore, not merely to be treated as missing data but as indicator for the quality of educational processes. Even the most superior…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Student Attrition, Enrollment Rate, Graduation Rate