Reading interest and students’ creative thinking skills cannot be optimal in the current learning process. Several things cause this. One of them is low models. It happens because activities applied by teacher are less innovative varied. This study aims to analyze effect using Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy-Oriented Learning Activities on reading elementary school students. The used a quasi-experimen...

The purpose of this study was to determine nursing students' leadership and emotional intelligence. The study was conducted as a descriptive study in a nursing school in 2008. The sample comprised 69 junior and 85 senior nursing students and was based on voluntary participation. Data were collected through a data sheet, a leadership style questionnaire, and the Bar-On Emotional Intelligence Quo...

PURPOSE To examine the inter-rater reliability and comparative validity of product-oriented and process-oriented measures of fundamental movement skills among children with cerebral palsy (CP). METHOD In total, 30 children with CP aged 6 to 14 years (Mean = 9.83, SD = 2.5) and classified in Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS) levels I-III performed tasks of catching, throwing, ...

BACKGROUND Physicians' attitudes, knowledge and skills are powerful determinants of quality of care for older patients. Previous studies found that using educational interventions to improve attitude is a difficult task. No previous study sought to determine if a skills-oriented educational intervention improved student attitudes towards elderly patients. METHODS This study evaluated the effe...

This paper addresses a crucial issue which is central to technology management since it focuses on the role of R&D-related capabilities as determinants of export performance. Empirical evidence from 202 R&D intensive SMEs indicates that the more advanced stages of internationalization require broader, more aggressive and externally oriented R&D capabilities. Results suggest that more advanced e...

The present paper introduces Audioworld, a novel game-like application for goal-oriented computer-supported learning (CSL). In Audioworld, participants localize sound emitting objects depending on their spatial position. Audioworld serves as a flexible low cost test bed for a broad range of human cognitive functions. This comprises the systematic training of spatial navigation and localization ...

agricultural extension is a client-oriented service the effectiveness and efficiency of which depends on the clientele’s satisfaction. extension agents’ performance is one of the indices of extension services' performance. extension agents’ performance has been assessed in different such ways as: study of their supervisors’ view points, study of agents’ themselves reports and as well study...