Catanya Stager

University of Alabama | UA · Department of Educational Studies in Psychology, Research Methodology, and Counseling

Introduction One in five children aged < 5 years has experienced caries, making it the most prevalent chronic disease in childhood. The failure to address a child's dental health can lead to short-term and long-term complications and problems with permanent dentition. Primary care pediatric providers are in the position to participate in the preven...

Students, staff, and faculty in higher education are facing unprecedented challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Recent data revealed that a good number of academic activities and opportunities were disrupted as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and its variants. While much uncertainty remains for the next academic year, how higher education inst...

Young children often make pragmatic assumptions when learning new words. For example, they assume that a speaker who uses different words intends to refer to different things – the so-called principle of contrast. We used a standard disambiguation task to explore whether children’s assumptions about contrast depend on how much words differ. Three-...

An Exploratory Quantitative Text Analysis (EQTA) method was proposed to synthesize large sets of scholarly publications and to examine thematic characteristics in the Journal of Applied Measurement (JAM). After synthesizing 578 articles published in JAM from 2000 to 2020, authors classified each article into five categories to compare the differenc...

Objectives: This pilot study explores the additional psychiatric problems and their associated professional mental health utilization by students in recovery from addiction in collegiate recovery communities (CRCs) across the US South. The article has three goals: introduce CRCs to a broad medical audience; identify coexisting psychiatric concerns...

Background: Telemedicine in a school-based setting involving partnerships between an asthmatic child and health care provider can provide patients and caregivers with opportunities to better manage chronic conditions, communicate among partners, and collaborate for solutions in convenient locations. Objective: This systematic review examines out...

Objectives: With telemedicine becoming more widely implemented in emergency situations, understanding the quality and content of current findings that explore prehospital telemedicine is vital to establish best practices and guide future research. This systematic review examines the clinical importance of telemedicine in patient-provider ambulance...

BACKGROUND Asthma affects nearly six million children in the United States, with annual school absences totaling 13.8 million days and additional health expenses of $800/year. With limited access to health care in remote locations and underserved communities, telemedicine in a school-based setting involving partnerships between an asthmatic child a...

In operational administrations of rater-mediated performance assessments, practical constraints often result in incomplete data collection designs, in which each rater does not rate each performance on each task. Unless the data collection design includes systematic links, such as raters scoring a subset of the same test-takers as other raters, it...

Numerous researchers have explored the degree to which specific textual characteristics of student compositions are associated with high and low ratings, as well as differences in these relationships across subgroups of students (e.g., English language learners). These studies provide insight into rater judgments and the development of writing prof...