The importance of using healthcare evidence by policymakers is widely recognized [1,2]. For over a decade, several strategies to improve the use of knowledge by policy makers have been promoted [3,4]. Among them, the use of individuals called “intermediaries” or “knowledge brokers” is presented as a potential strategy [5,6]. Situated at the organizational interface, these actors benefit from a ...

There have been many investigations into the factors that underlie variations in individual student performance in college physics courses. Numerous studies report a positive correlation between students’ mathematical skills and their exam grades in college physics. However, few studies have examined students’ learning gain resulting from physics instruction, particularly with regard to qualita...

Researchers have advocated problem solving to induce learners in conceptual change process as problem representation is central to whether or not learners achieve the intended change [1]. One way to help learners develop their problem representations is through tools that will enable them to externalize problem representations [2] and this can be done by encouraging learners to build dynamic mo...

Training and capacity building are long established critical components of global water, sanitation, and hygiene (WaSH) policies, strategies, and programs. Expanding capacity building support for WaSH in developing countries is one of the targets of the Sustainable Development Goals. There are many training evaluation methods and tools available. However, training evaluations in WaSH have been ...

OBJECTIVE A conceptual model is proposed in order to explain pilot performance in surprising and startling situations. BACKGROUND Today's debate around loss of control following in-flight events and the implementation of upset prevention and recovery training has highlighted the importance of pilots' ability to deal with unexpected events. Unexpected events, such as technical malfunctions or ...

Social networking sites (SNSs) have become extremely popular among deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) people. As these users can have particular communication needs when compared with other users, it is important to know their characteristics like language skills, ways of communicating and using SNSs, as well as technology use skills that may affect their experiences when using SNSs. Thus, there is...

Most medical faculty receive little or no training about how to be effective teachers, even when they assume major educational leadership roles. To identify the competencies required of an effective teacher in medical education, the authors developed a comprehensive conceptual model. After conducting a literature search, the authors met at a two-day conference (2006) with 16 medical and nonmedi...

Achievement in mathematics is predicted by an individual's domain-specific factual knowledge, procedural skill and conceptual understanding as well as domain-general executive function skills. In this study we investigated the extent to which executive function skills contribute to these three components of mathematical knowledge, whether this mediates the relationship between executive functio...

The concept of health literacy has been widened to include higher order aspects such as patient decision-making skills while its measurement continued to rely narrowly on reading and numeracy skills, known as functional health literacy. We developed a Judgment Skills measure, designed to assess patients' ability to make appropriate decisions with regard to their condition. The measure offers sc...

The basic purpose of this Dissertation is to help to fill the gap experienced by many students between secondary and tertiary education; a gap which arises from the failure of students to understand the need for the use of the critical conceptual skills .and systems analysis. These have enabled Homo sapiens sapiens (Hss) to use his experience of his environment to apply his understanding to the...