Questions about socioemotional learning in boys of color (BOC) arise in light of the disproportionate rates of school adjustment difficulties BOC experience by adolescence. Socioemotional competence in BOC is assessed in terms of self-regulation, interpersonal skills, and positive relationships with peers and teachers when they enter pre-K. Changes in competence are tracked until the end of kin...

CONTEXT A 'new', problem-based medical curriculum was introduced at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in 2002. The objective of this study was to assess the perceptions of competence for internship and the factors influencing competence of final-year medical students. METHODS Eighteen focus groups were conducted (six per year) with UCT final-year medical students in 2007 (n =27), 2008 (n =27)...

The real estate development trade is a pillar industry of our national economy. The real estate companies must focus on core competence in order to succeed in the fierce competition. This paper presents a probabilistic model for core competence estimation of real estate firms. According to the nonlinear feature of real estate core competence, this paper establishes the fuzzy and neural network ...

OBJECTIVE To determine and compare the self-perceived and objectively measured competence in performing 14 core-clinical practical procedures by Final Year Medical Students of the University of Zambia. METHODS The study included 56 out of 60 graduating University of Zambia Medical Students of the 2012/2013 academic year. Self-perceived competence: students rated their competence on 14 core- c...

Analytic results indicate that many heads often can be better than one even when none o f the added heads is as individually compe ten t as the first . We define individual competence (accuracy) in a dichotomous choice situation as the probability Pi of making the 'correct' or 'better' choice.~ Condorcet (1785) shows that if each person has equal competence, and if that competence, pi, is great...

Here we show that S. suis, a major bacterial pathogen of pigs and emerging pathogen in humans responds to a peptide pheromone by developing competence for DNA transformation. This species does not fall within any of the phylogenetic clusters of streptococci previously shown to regulate competence via peptide pheromones suggesting that more species of streptococci may be naturally competent. Ind...

CUMULATIVE RISK, PARENTAL EMOTIONAL EXPRESSIVITY, ANDPARENTAL SECURE BASE AS PREDICTORS OF CHILDREN’S SOCIALCOMPETENCEbyCAITLIN MARIE MCLEARMay 2013Advisor: Dr. Christopher J. TrentacostaMajor: Psychology (Clinical)Degree: Master of ArtsThere is substantial evidence in the literature focusing on the effects a child’s socialcompetence can have on futur...

In higher education the focus is changing towards development of professional competence of students: Students learn to apply knowledge in professional situations. Their results and competence development must be measured and assessed, just as in professional life. Characteristic of these professional situations is innovation with ICT as integral part. The associated educational concept is know...

This paper introduces the quantitative research method for the personnel configuration of the software project by studying the effects of the overall competence of the developers in the vehicle navigation software project on the factors like project quality. The study shows the overall competence of the developers is related to the aftersubmission defect density, productivity and the average de...