This tutorial deals with the cognitive skills based adaptive educational environments an approach to designing tutoring systems that has been very effective, especially within applied domains where the learning is predominantly concerned with acquiring operational knowledge. Since such environments can accommodate both the 'instruction' and 'construction' of knowledge and actively engage the le...

This paper examines how primitive skills associated with occupations are formed and rewarded in the labor market over the careers of young male high school graduates. The objective task complexity measurement from the Dictionary of Occupational Titles enables a more direct look into primitive skills of workers. Through characterizing a worker’s optimal occupational choice, I show that the task ...

objectives: schizophrenia is responsible for a significant proportion of burden of mental diseases in iran. lack of a follow-up system has resulted in the repeated hospitalizations. in this study it is hypothesized that standardized living skills training delivered to participants with schizophrenia in outpatient and inpatient centers can be effective compared to a  control group (with occupati...

This paper offers a brief history of the development of professional ‘engineering’ curricula across the last six decades. The affects occasioned by Sputnik, Japanese quality triumphs, the growth of microelectronics, and how subsequent skills deficiencies were addressed by IBM and the professional society community are discussed. Future curriculum or educational problems need crossor interdiscip...