This paper reviews 11 published and evaluated school-based HIV/AIDS risk reduction programmes for youth in Africa.
We investigated the burden of HIV among primary school pupils, and evaluated school-linked HIV counselling and testing (HCT).
We conducted an HIV prevalence survey of primary school pupils in Harare, Zimbabwe, and evaluated school-linked HIV counselling and testing (HCT) for pupils, their families and schoolteachers.
We have systematically evaluated school closure operational issues to determine when schools should be closed and re-opened to achieve the maximum reduction in influenza spread.
For example, health officials from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene evaluated school absentee percentage data for 2001 02 and identified moderate increases in influenza-associated absenteeism (1 ).
To assess potential bias in survey response, we evaluated school-level survey participation and found that response rates increased across tertiles of increasing percent enrollment of white, non-Hispanic students (< 51% white, 75% participation; 51% to < 78%, 77%; ≥78%, 85%).
Dr. Rizzo has also designed two tools for evaluating schools.
Isn't it time we support other factors when evaluating schools?
Of course, the Bush administration is using tests not to see if individual students are learning but to rank and evaluate schools.
But because she takes the challenge so seriously, Lisa Keegan could transform education debates, providing conservatives and liberals common ways to evaluate schools.
But the AACSB report provides a way to think about research that might help them evaluate schools better.
