scholarly journals Can high-school students contribute to seismic risk mitigation? Lessons learned from the development of a crowd-sourced exposure database

2021 ◽  
pp. 102755
Author(s):  
C. Scaini ◽  
A. Peresan ◽  
A. Tamaro ◽  
V. Poggi ◽  
C. Barnaba
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Seismic Risk ◽  
Risk Mitigation ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
School Students ◽  
Seismic Risk Mitigation

scholarly journals Adolescent alcohol, nuts, and fiber: combined effects on benign breast disease risk in young women

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine S. Berkey ◽  
Rulla M. Tamimi ◽  
Walter C. Willett ◽  
Bernard Rosner ◽  
Martha Hickey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Lower Risk ◽  
Benign Breast Disease ◽  
Disease Risk ◽  
Risk Mitigation ◽  
Peanut Butter ◽  
Breast Disease ◽  
School Students ◽  
Total Dietary Fiber

AbstractAdolescent drinking is associated with higher risks of proliferative benign breast disease (BBD) and invasive breast cancer (BC). Furthermore, adolescent nut and fiber consumptions are associated with lower risks of benign lesions and premenopausal BC. We hypothesize that diet (nuts, fiber) may mitigate the elevated BBD risk associated with alcohol. A prospective cohort of 9031 females, 9–15 years at baseline, completed questionnaires in 1996–2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2014. Participants completed food frequency questionnaires in 1996–2001. In 2005, participants (>=18 years) began reporting biopsy-confirmed BBD (N = 173 cases). Multivariable logistic regression estimated associations between BBD and cross-classified intakes (14–17 years) of alcohol and peanut butter/nuts (separately, total dietary fiber). Only 19% of participants drank in high school; drinking was associated with elevated BBD risk (OR = 1.75, 95% CI: 1.20–2.56; p = 0.004) compared to nondrinkers. Participants consuming any nuts/butter had lower BBD risk (OR = 0.64, 95% CI: 0.45–0.90; p = 0.01) compared to those consuming none. Participants in top 75% fiber intake had lower risk (OR = 0.57, 95% CI: 0.40–0.81; p = 0.002) compared to bottom quartile. Testing our hypothesis that consuming nuts/butter mitigates the elevated alcohol risk, analyzing alcohol and nuts combined found that those who consumed both had lower risk (RR = 0.47, 95% CI: 0.24–0.89; p = 0.02) compared to drinkers eating no nuts. Our analysis of alcohol and fiber together did not demonstrate risk mitigation by fiber. For high school females who drink, their BBD risk may be attenuated by consuming nuts. Due to modest numbers, future studies need to replicate our findings in adolescent/adult females. However, high school students may be encouraged to eat nuts and fiber, and to avoid alcohol, to reduce risk of BBD and for general health benefits.

scholarly journals Lessons Learned from Teaching Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing to High School Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (09) ◽  
pp. 13397-13403
Author(s):  
Narges Norouzi ◽  
Snigdha Chaturvedi ◽  
Matthew Rutledge
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Teaching Machine ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
School Students ◽  
Gender Discrepancies

This paper describes an experience in teaching Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to a group of high school students over an intense one-month period. In this work, we provide an outline of an AI course curriculum we designed for high school students and then evaluate its effectiveness by analyzing student's feedback and student outcomes. After closely observing students, evaluating their responses to our surveys, and analyzing their contribution to the course project, we identified some possible impediments in teaching AI to high school students and propose some measures to avoid them. These measures include employing a combination of objectivist and constructivist pedagogies, reviewing/introducing basic programming concepts at the beginning of the course, and addressing gender discrepancies throughout the course.

scholarly journals Teaching High School Students Design Process and 3-D Printing: Lessons Learned

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed Megri ◽  
Sameer Hamoush ◽  
Rachid Belmasrour ◽  
Gwen Lee-Thomas
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
School Students

ALAS: An Intervention to Promote Career Development Among Latina/o Immigrant High School Students

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (6) ◽  
pp. 608-622 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Hawley McWhirter ◽  
Bryan O. Rojas-Araúz ◽  
Robert Ortega ◽  
Darien Combs ◽  
Christina Cendejas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
Career Development ◽  
School Engagement ◽  
Critical Consciousness ◽  
School Connectedness ◽  
Immigrant Students ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
School Students

This article describes the rationale, development, delivery, and evaluation strategy of a pilot career intervention program for immigrant Latina/o high school students: Advocating for Latina/o Achievement in School. This innovative intervention aims to prevent dropout and to promote academic success and college and career readiness through a combination of academic support and enhancing critical consciousness. Shorter term goals include increasing school-related self-efficacy expectations, school connectedness, school engagement, and critical consciousness. We describe the theoretical and empirical basis for the intervention components, and how they attend to dimensions of immigrant Latina/o students’ career development. We describe program logistics, outcomes, strengths, challenges, and lessons learned from delivering the intervention. We highlight unique features of the program and suggest its relevance to career education efforts in other school and national contexts in which immigrant students face racism and inequities.

A Summer Math and Physics Program for High School Students: Student Performance and Lessons Learned in the Second Year

2013 ◽  
Vol 51 (5) ◽  
pp. 280-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Timme ◽  
Michael Baird ◽  
Jake Bennett ◽  
Jason Fry ◽  
Lance Garrison ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Student Performance ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
School Students ◽  
Physics Program ◽  
Second Year

Preparing High School Students With Chronic Illnesses for College Transition: Lessons Learned From College Counselors

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 2156759X2090707
Author(s):  
Eric S. Davis ◽  
Carly Paro
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
School Counselors ◽  
High School Transition ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Chronic Illnesses ◽  
Future Research ◽  
School Students ◽  
College Counselors ◽  
High School Preparation

Interest is growing regarding high school preparation for students transitioning to college with chronic illnesses such as asthma, cancer, and diabetes. This qualitative study examined 15 college counselors’ perceptions of working to address high school transition needs with incoming students diagnosed with chronic illnesses. Four themes emerged from the findings: counseling services, social aspects, medical considerations, and educational needs. We discuss implications for high school counselors’ practice and future research.

scholarly journals School-Based Participatory Response for Reopening During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of a Metropolitan High School Implementing the Health Promoting School

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Insook Kwon ◽  
Sunjoo Kang ◽  
Jin Sun Kim
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
School Health ◽  
Environmental Safety ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
School Students ◽  
Safety Belt ◽  
Safety Belts ◽  
Private High School

Purpose: This study aimed to analyze how a private high school in Seoul developed and executed a “school disinfection strategy” to ensure the students' right to study in a safe environment, and also to analyze the lessons learned from this process.Methods: This was a case study of school health in a community-based school reopening during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study target was a 64-year-old private high school with 12 classes for each grade with a total of 1,100 students.Results: A “school disinfection strategy” was set up at individual and class environment levels to protect students from the risk of infection. In addition, school health activities were carried out with a “personal protection safety belt” and “community protection safety belt” for effective implementation. To ensure a safe educational environment for high school students and to ensure smooth execution of face-to-face classes (in-person teaching), the “prevention safety belt strategy” was introduced in accordance with governmental guidelines to sequentially implement various preventive measures necessary to guarantee environmental safety of schools. Activating personal prevention safety belts by checking the symptoms of students when entering the school and during each class, and providing self-made disinfectants by spraying alcohol on wet-wipes were cost-effective and sustainable methods used in this school to prevent the spread of infection.Conclusions: The experience of developing a prevention safety belt strategy to adapt the guidelines of the local education office to the school situation was presented. Focusing on the school community, as well as individual students and teachers, the concept of prevention safety belts helped to unite and stimulate voluntary participation of students in health promotion activities.

scholarly journals Computational Thinking for Youth and Adults Education: Towards a Socially Aware Model

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Júlia Dos Santos Bathke Ortiz ◽  
Roberto Pereira
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Public School ◽  
Current Literature ◽  
Computational Thinking ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Digital Inclusion ◽  
School Students ◽  
Exploratory Case Study

Research on Computational Thinking has been growing over the last years, mainly focusing on Elementary and High School students. Challenging audiences, such as Youth and Adults Education, are rarely addressed or even cited in current literature. This Master's research investigates Computational Thinking as a way to promote digital inclusion and proposes a model to design and conduct initiatives for Youth and Adults Education taking into account the characteristics and particularities of this public. The model, with a set of principles and practices, was applied and analyzed in an exploratory case study inside a public school. Results suggest the model is promising to inspire practices to develop Computational Thinking for inclusion. As additional contributions, activities applied in a real setting and lessons learned from their application are presented to support and inform further initiatives.

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