BACKGROUND In a formal needs assessment, conducted prior to the Canadian Headache Society's recent national continuing education workshop, participants expressed particular enthusiasm for enhancing their own communication skills or their teaching of those skills. OBJECTIVES Responding to both interests, this paper offers a practical conceptual framework for thinking systematically about how t...

Lecturers see students struggle learning software design. In order to create educational interventions it is needed to know which (abstract) reasoning skills are related to students’ software design performance. We introduce an online software design skills test for measuring students’ software design skills. Two student groups of two different European universities participated in an experimen...

The objectives of this study are twofold: (1) to promote necessary English oral skills; and (2) to provide prospective English teachers with a necessary roadmap towards achieving competency in English oral communication skills. Prospective English teachers at 11 Japanese universities participated, and we tested our text materials in terms of the degree of motivation, and of the progress on thei...

introduction: today, many organizations attempt to fully develop in gradual evolution of their processes. pcmm is one of the models which focus on improving organizational human capabilities. this model is applied to continually increase people's ability to attract, develop, motivate, organize and retain the skills. in this study, pcmm was used to investigate organizational maturity needs in me...

the purpose of this paper is to study how the characteristics of successful managers are somehow related to their programme in co-operatives. the study shows there is a significant relationship between managers' characteristics such as innovation, authority and leadership, with managerial skills, self confidence and degree of success. however, there is no correlation between intelligence, ...

agricultural applied-scientific education that develops the practical skills of students to getter with theoretical education can development of job skills take steps with development of job skills in educational programs in reinforcing the specification, abilities and skills of students. the aim of the study was to investigate the rate of the business and the development of job skills of agric...