Influenza vaccination for immunocompromised patients: systematic review and meta-analysis from a public health policy perspective.

Immunocompromised patients are vulnerable to severe or complicated influenza infection. Vaccination is widely recommended for this group. This systematic review and meta-analysis assesses influenza vaccination for immunocompromised patients in terms of preventing influenza-like illness and laboratory confirmed influenza, serological response and adverse events

An Investigation into the Relationships among Middle School Teachers’ Beliefs about Collaboration, Their Perceptions of Formative Assessment, and Selected Teacher Characteristics

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships among middle school teachers’ beliefs about collaboration, their rationale for using common formative assessments, and teacher characteristics that can explain these relationships. Seventy-six middle school teachers from two middle schools participated in the study. Findings indicate that teachers believe collaboration benefits instruction and assessment informs instruction. The findings suggest that age might play a role in the relationship between teacher beliefs and assessment, that the degree to which teachers get along with each other influences the success of a collaborative group, and that collaboration is not limited to structured meetings

A Piece of the Pie: Techniques for Comparing School within School Performance to the Whole School Performance

This study uses chi-square testing to examine end of course performance differences between intervention and non-intervention students in 4 high schools and 3 middle schools in Texas. Each of these schools offers a school within a school (SWS) program focused on Project-Based Learning (PBL) for students. End of Course (EOC) performance for students in the SWS and host campus was statistically compared using Chi-Square testing. Findings suggest that intervention students outperform main campus students in 97% of statistically significant high school comparisons and 94% of significant middle school comparisons