Motivating Course Completion in Executive Development

Neurocognitive Executive Functions: Development and Interaction with Environmental Factors

Background and Purpose: "Executive functions" is a general term and contains components which form a common pattern while being distinctive form each other at the same time. These functions imply the ability to use higher cognitive processes to focus on the significant aspects of the task and to plan for its completion. During the recent years, a general view has been developed indicating that ...

Sustainable Development-Based Education in Higher Education with Emphasis on Sustainability Competencies of the Graduates (Case Study: Bachelor course of Handicrafts)

This research aims to identify the basic changes and requirements in the structure of higher education of handicrafts to acquire the graduateschr('39') sustainability qualifications. Since higher educationchr('39')s philosophy and goal is to educate sustainable human beings, a successful graduate has acquired all the sustainability qualifications and can integrate them into his knowledge and ac...

Autistic children at play : Injecting fun into research and clinical paradigms

The importance of serial behaviour is paramount at every level of normal functioning. McGonigle & colleagues consider it a core adaptive competence and invested a considerable effort in developing executive and ordering-based paradigms which operate well beyond the scope of simple choice procedures. Using essentially non-verbal tasks, implemented with touch screens and designed to minimise moto...

Problem-based learning in public health instruction: a pilot study of an online simulation as a problem-based learning approach.

UNLABELLED Although increasingly used as a modality in medical education, Problem-Based Learning (PBL) remains somewhat overlooked in the training of public health students (Pham & Blumberg, 2000). This project involved a pilot test of a web-based community simulation as a PBL platform in an undergraduate health behavior course. PURPOSE To develop and pilot test a web-based computer simulatio...

Hpf-2 Scope of Activities and Motivating Applications Contents 1 Executive Summary 3 2 Justiication for New Capabilities 5 2.1 Enhanced 3 Justiication for Kernel Hpf 26 4 Motivating Applications 28