Generally the focus in multicultural assessment lies in limiting cultural bias within the test and norms; however, dynamic administration of cognitive assessments may be an additional, practical method to help educators ascertain children's cognitive potential in culturally diverse schools.
Using linked data was also beneficial for looking forward to ascertain children's readmissions to hospitals in WA with a diagnosis of surgical wound infection.
The approach incorporates current service provision, secondary analysis of available datasets to estimate numbers of children, ascertaining children's and parents' choices and preferred locations of care, and incorporating professional perspectives (see, p.11-12).
There were 10 Hispanics of Mexican origin at MSSM who did not report a race but who were identified by interviewers as Native Americans by ascertaining child and parental birthplace and native language (Mexican Indians).
For example, in the exemplar locality (North Wales), similar to other global contexts, there was no current directory of palliative care services, no database of children with palliative care needs locally, and nor was an advance care planning framework available to ascertain child and parent preferences before the end-of-life stage, or an appropriate costing methodology.
The records include 527 children (3.5 % of 14,944 where the age can be ascertained), where children are defined as 16 years or below.
With regard to family characteristics (socio-economic status, marital functioning, quality of parent child attachment and children's daily hassles concerning ill and healthy parents), Sieh et al. [ 1] ascertained that children's problem behavior was more common in studies characterized by low socio-economic status (SES).
For example, several studies using impairment scales (PedMIDAS: Pediatric Migraine Disability Assessment) or quality of life (QoL) scales (PedsQL 4.0; Paediatric Quality of Life Inventory) have ascertained that children suffering from headaches show a considerable reduction in school attendance and leisure activities when compared to healthy children [2, 8 15].
We ascertained whether children had received a primary hepatitis B vaccine by checking their vaccination certificates.
Most affected individuals were ascertained as children (average age at sample, 14.3 years) with no sex differences.
