Kathleen Dyer

• California State University, Fresno

Departments of Human Development and Family Science (HDFS) are a disciplinary descendent of home economics, which emerged in the late 1800s as a product of progressivism, funding tied to agriculture, and misogyny in higher education. The study of development and family joined home economics departments in the 1930s and 1940s. Some home economics de...

This study aimed to demonstrate how one university worked to overcome some of the measurement problems associated with legacy student rating instruments through the creation and investigation of a new student rating instrument based on the most current scholarship on teaching and learning. Measurement problems with legacy instruments include asking...

Objective The goal was to determine whether or not there is an association between the belief that human development and family science (HDFS) is “just common sense” and academic performance in a rigorous research methods class in HDFS. Background Naïve realism is a cognitive bias that creates a belief in common sense that is difficult to challeng...

Objective The objective of this overview of academic programs related to Human Development and Family Science (HDFS) is to describe the current status of HDFS in the academy. Background HDFS is an interdisciplinary nexus of family science, developmental science, and early childhood education (ECE), often coexisting in academic units. Method Unive...

Outcomes assessment in an academic family science program led to the accidental discovery of grade inflation that was causing impaction problems in upper-division major courses. The current analysis evaluates the effectiveness of a policy intervention designed to improve academic rigor in previously grade-inflated classes. The new policy required a...

The degree to which students hold epistemically unwarranted beliefs, beliefs not founded on reliable reasoning or credible data, can be used as a measure of critical thinking skills. To this end, college students (n = 806) were surveyed at the beginning and end of a semester. Epistemically unwarranted beliefs were pervasive. Several sections of a c...

Pseudoscience in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy - edited by Stephen Hupp March 2019

Cambridge Core - Health and Clinical Psychology - Pseudoscience in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy - edited by Stephen Hupp

To explore whether parental report of frequency of problematic sleep behaviours overestimates the subjective experience of sleep problems among co-sleepers, and whether classification as reactive or intentional co-sleeping is related to parental judgments about children's sleep, 139 parents of young children were recruited from urban paediatric off...

To identify the book sources of parenting advice about child sleep and then characterize those sources with respect to their authorship and the content of advice about cosleeping and cry-it-out sleep training. Availability in the United States market. Forty currently available parenting advice books about sleep were identified. N/A. Most books were...

Practicing physicians rarely apply evidence-based medicine (EBM). Unlike their more-experienced counterparts, current residents probably participated in EBM curricula during medical school. The current study was designed to determine the extent to which they or their faculty spend time searching for evidence-based answers. This information will hel...

To describe the development and validation of a test of knowledge and skills in evidence based medicine. Cross sectional study. Family practice residency programme in California; a list server for those who teach evidence based medicine; and an evidence based medicine seminar series. Family practice residents and faculty members (n=43); volunteers...

Typescript. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2001. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 55-59).