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Claudio, Luz; Stingone, Jeanette A. – Journal of School Health, 2008
Background: Children's health is an important indicator of community health because children are especially vulnerable to disease. The school setting is ideal for assessing these vulnerabilities and prevalence of disease, yet the methods that produce high participation among students and their families are not usually described or evaluated. This…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Research Methodology, Diseases, Parents
Piesse, Andrea; Rust, Keith – National Center for Education Statistics, 2003
The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) is a large international comparative study of the reading literacy of young students. The student population for the U.S. 2001 PIRLS (hereafter simply referred to as PIRLS) was the set of all fourth-graders in the United States, corresponding to the grade in which the highest proportion…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Comparative Analysis, Predictor Variables, Regression (Statistics)