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K B Lynch

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PubMed1998

Preliminary evaluation of a resiliency-based preschool substance abuse and violence prevention project.

The Resilient Children Making Healthy Choices (RCMHC) Project is an early childhood prevention initiative designed to promote health and social competence in young children by training their teachers in skills aimed at nurturing children's resilient development. Through a model program implemented in ten Head Start and other community-based preschool classrooms, teachers were trained in the use and integration of resiliency-based substance abuse/violence prevention strategies in their teaching practices. Analysis of outcome data from a pre-post comparison group design revealed increases in teacher interactional skills designed to enhance children's resiliency, and improvements in children's prosocial behaviors.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1990

The relationship of minority students' MCAT scores and grade point averages to their acceptance into medical school.

The authors identified relationships between quantitative academic variables--specifically, grade-point averages (GPAs) and Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) scores--and the admission decisions of 58 students from minority groups underrepresented in medicine. These students had participated in a summer enrichment program at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and had applied to medical school. A total of 49 of the students were offered admission, and ultimately enrolled in 17 different medical schools. Results of a stepwise multiple regression analysis indicated that scores on the Skills Analysis: Quantitative Subtest of the MCAT explained the greatest percentage of the variance related to medical school admission (26%); scores on the Skills Analysis: Reading Subtest contributed an additional 7% to the explained variance, and scores on the Physics Knowledge Subtest, another 5%. The overall GPAs did not contribute significantly to the explanation of the variance in admission decisions. These results differ from published findings based on data from minorities' admissions to individual institutions. Caution must therefore be exercised when using GPAs and MCATs as medical school admission predictors for students from minority groups.

Achievement↗