This study examines the use of a competency-based scoring rubric to measure students’ field practicum performance and competency development. Rubrics were used to complete mid-year and final evaluations for 56 MSW students in their foundation field practicum. Results indicate that students scored higher than expected on competency development measures, appearing to provide evidence of good over...

This study extends L. G. Calhoun and R. G. Tedeschi's (1998) model of posttraumatic growth (PTG), positive change resulting from the struggle with trauma, to children by exploring the construct among youngsters who experienced Hurricane Floyd and the subsequent flooding. Despite burgeoning interest in PTG, few studies have examined the phenomenon among non-adults. This first systematic study of...

background: dental students’ attendance in community fields prepares them to get involved in oral health promotion programs.  the aim of this study was to evaluate dental students` attitude toward education in community dentistry fields at an iranian dental school. methods: 125 dental students participated in a questionnaire survey.  the questionnaire included questions regarding students’ back...

Young adults are increasingly integrating social media into their daily lives and social behavior, and empirical work on the personality traits and interpersonal competency associated with use and the potential consequences of use on social behavior is still emerging. The present study sought to investigate the interrelationships among constructs relevant to the developmental tasks associated w...

The challenge addressed here is to design a hybrid cognitive architecture that will possess the minimal Core Cognitive Competency (CCC) sufficient for the cognitive and social growth of an agent up to the human level of intelligence, based on autonomous learning. The approach is based on the integration of high-level symbolic (schema-based) and connectionist components at the top representation...

the purpose of this research is to predict knowledge sharing through dimensions of social capital. knowledge sharing occurrence depends directly upon tendency of knowledge holder to sharing as well as knowledge receiver to take it from holders. in other side, social capital is defined as linkage among people and their unifying factors such as trust. in this research, social capital is conceptua...