It is crucial that educational establishments uphold the standard of teachers' pedagogical ability. There are a number strategies may be used to improve educators' competency, including performing their tasks as educators in professional manner and trying discipline oneself engage various activities can foster competency growth. This research aimed analyze development strategy for educators. Th...

One hundred children (44 boys) participated in a 3-year longitudinal study of the development of basic quantitative competencies and the relation between these competencies and later mathematics and reading achievement. The children's preliteracy knowledge, intelligence, executive functions, and parental educational background were also assessed. The quantitative tasks assessed a broad range of...

Despite the rapid expansion of interest in competency-based assessment, few descriptions of assessment systems specifically designed for a competency-based curriculum have been reported. The purpose of this article is to describe the design of a portfolio approach to a comprehensive, competency-based assessment system that is fully integrated with the curriculum to foster an educational environ...

Increasing the educational needs of students higher institutions and ensuring high-quality training specialists in system professional education is a modern requirement. The formation competencies allows us to modernize content apply practice, solve self-fulfilling tasks. Therefore, it very important update demand for among ensure high quality education. Since leading direction research problem...

the aim of this study is to investigate competency requirements of iranian public librarians in library educational departments and working places. a group of 72 people from public libraries answered to questions. questions cover all areas of library performances. the results show that the traditional competencies such as cataloging, management of collections, information resources and acquisit...

Debates on media competency and media literacy are going on now for a few decades. Many concepts have been developed in various disciplines. Along with that, discourses on visual literacy have been intensified, too, although visuals have been used in educational contexts throughout history. But only recently, after almost three thousand years of historiography, turns like iconic turn, pictorial...

Competency-based education (CBE) is a model that guides the educational process toward acquisition of the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed for effective professional practice in service of the public. Increasingly adopted by medicine and other professions, the CBE model involves establishing competency goals, developing curricula and other experiences designed to help students reach thes...

BACKGROUND Culture has increasingly appreciated clinical consequences on the patient-physician relationship, and governing bodies of medical education are widely expanding educational programs to train providers in culturally competent care. A recent study demonstrated the value an international surgical mission in modern surgical training, while fulfilling the mandate of educational growth thr...