Evidence-based programs (EBPs), which are programs supported by empirical evidence, have quickly become the gold standard of prevention and intervention treatments to address child and family issues, including child maltreatment. SafeCare® is a widely recognized parenttraining EBP that significantly reduces risk factors and occurrences of child maltreatment. As demand for EBPs increases and ens...

Competency-based education and assessment initiatives have been completed in a number of health care and health management professions during the past decade. In addition, several competency specification endeavors have been similarly undertaken in relation to the field of public health, including the development of the Council on Linkages between Academia and Public Health Practice competency ...

During the Covid-19 outbreak, courier service industry played a critical role. In face of this pandemic, businesses require personnel who are capable surviving.Objectives: The goal study is to look at direct impact intellectual, emotional, social, and adaptability on employee performance, as well indirect social competence performance via adaptability.Methodology: This adopts quantitative metho...

This study aims at disclosing the relationship between emotional intelligence and reflective teaching ability of experienced English teachers extent level impacts teaching. There were forty-one with least 3 years experience as participants instructing three different language institutes, four non-associate Professor Applied Linguistics, from Dehkadeh-ye-Olympic, Tehran governmental schools in K...

PURPOSE There have been critiques that competency training, which defines the roles of a physician by simple, discrete tasks or measurable competencies, can cause students to compartmentalize and focus mainly on being assessed without understanding how the interconnected competencies help shape their role as future physicians. Losing the meaning and interaction of competencies can result in a f...

Since Bloom’s initial work on competencies in 1956, various competency systems have been designed and used to assess students’ competencies. Different pedagogical researchers and stakeholders prefer different systems. We have been collaborating with them. Such systems are essential for the adaptation by adaptive intelligent tutoring systems. Now, this paper presents how ActiveMath integrates se...

A quasi-experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of frame-of-reference training on the quality of competency modeling ratings made by consultants. Human resources consultants from a large consulting firm were randomly assigned to either a training or a control condition. The discriminant validity, interrater reliability, and accuracy of the competency ratings were significantly highe...

PURPOSE Research suggests that there are concerns about the neuropsychological functioning of physicians who undergo physician competency evaluation. Academic health center faculty often participate in the evaluation and remediation of these physicians. The purpose of this study was to compare the cognitive abilities between a group of physicians referred for competency evaluations and a contro...

OBJECTIVE To describe the demographic and health-related characteristics of school-aged children with low competency in fundamental movement skills (FMS). METHODS Cross-sectional representative school-based survey of Australian elementary and high school students (n = 6917) conducted in 2010. Trained field staff measured students' height, weight, and assessed FMS and cardiorespiratory enduran...

OBJECTIVE to develop and validate national competency standards for midwives in Australia. This study was part of a commissioned national research project to articulate the scope of practice of Australian midwives and to develop national competency standards to assist midwives to deliver safe and competent midwifery care. DESIGN a multi-method, staged approach was used to collect data through...