Many students could learn more effectively than they do now if they were taught in a way that better matched their patterns of abilities. Teaching for successful intelligence provides a way to create such a match. It involves helping all students capitalize on their strengths and compensate for or correct their weaknesses. It does so by teaching in a way that balances learning for memory, analy...

Recent research with face-to-face groups found that a measure of general group effectiveness (called "collective intelligence") predicted a group's performance on a wide range of different tasks. The same research also found that collective intelligence was correlated with the individual group members' ability to reason about the mental states of others (an ability called "Theory of Mind" or "T...

Communication is the two way process of exchanging ideas, feelings and emotions. Picture naming is the most commonly used task in research as well as in clinical practice. As there is a dearth of assessment material for naming in children, the present study is an attempt to assess the naming abilities in children with respect to Indian context by developing an assessment tool. Study design incl...

Many animals use conventional signals of fighting ability to mediate aggressive conflict. Given the apparent benefits of signaling inaccurately high fighting ability, there is extensive interest in why animals communicate their abilities honestly [1]. One hypothesis is that inaccurate signalers receive social punishment that disfavors inaccuracy. Although the idea that social punishment can pre...

This study provides a critical assessment of the current KPI-driven steering practices carried out by Chief Information Officers (CIOs). It explores how the use of ITIL KPIs affect the IT Service Management (ITSM) organization’s learning behavior and how this behavior impacts on Digital Business Transformation. The results indicate that, when used to steer the ITSM organization, ITIL KPIs will ...

of study D. Differentiation of cognitive abilities as a function of level of general intelligence.

Green et al. (2017) raise two broad concerns with our two studies (Unsworth et al., 2015) showing little association between self-reported video-game experience and cognitive abilities: (a) Our analyses assumed linear gaming-cognition relationships and ignored possible confounding associations among different video-game genres, and (b) the video-game experience questionnaires were problematic a...

The quality of the parent-child relationship is a strong predictor of outcomes for children, and its assessment is a key element of the work of health visitors. The Glasgow Parenting Support Framework emphasises the importance of relationship assessment, and a feasibility study using a semi-structured approach is being carried out in one area of the city. This paper explores how well health vis...

AIM To determine the possible influence of high physical load in the workplace on the physical fitness of employees. METHODS The subjects (494 men) were tested by means of Baecke's questionnaire for evaluation of the Work Index, measuring occupational physical load. The EUROFIT battery of tests was used for testing the functional and motor abilities of the subjects. RESULTS Subjects with a ...

There has been considerable interest in assessing whether psychotherapists have enhanced abilities in empathy and whether those abilities influence treatment outcomes. However, to date, studies have been hindered by inconsistent definitions of empathy and a reliance on assessment via self-report. The unique aim of this study was to ascertain the empathic abilities of psychotherapists using a mu...