To discuss the possible relationship between student financial understanding and college completion, on January 18 , 2013 our college, with a generous contribution from Citi Community Development, will host the Financial Literacy and College Persistence Conference.
The questionnaire was piloted on 30 third-year medical students at one of the potential universities to assess acceptability, understanding and average completion time.
A proxy assessor will be employed, where cognitive impairment in an older person precludes understanding and self-completion of the instruments.
We piloted the questionnaire with four villagers (heads of household or their spouse/husband) living in Vientiane to assess understanding and ease of completion.
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised includes Verbal (subtests: general information, similarities, arithmetic, Vocabulary, understanding) and performance (subtests: picture completion, picture arrangement, block design, object assembly, coding-digit symbol) scales.
Researchers administered the questionnaire completion, monitored understanding and answered participants' questions.
They reported analyses of data from a sample of almost 2000 children (average age 6 04) who were given five subtests from the Test of Language Development TOLDD) assessing receptive vocabulary (picture identification), expressive vocabulary (oral vocabulary), receptive grammatical skills (grammatical understanding), and expressive language use (grammatical completion and sentence imitation).
In establishing the survey, consideration was given to ease of understanding, completion and subsequent analysis.
This understanding will be useful to improve acceptance, attendance and completion of programs thus improve their feasibility within a community setting.
