The purpose of this study was to compare teachers and parents as instructors of a personal safety program. One hundred seventy-two Head Start preschoolers were randomly assigned to a personal safety program taught by their teachers, parents, both teachers and parents, or to a general safety control program. Following program participation, children taught the personal safety program by their te...

BACKGROUND Medical students in Canada must make career choices by their final year of medical school. Selection of students for a career in neurosurgery has traditionally been based on marks, reference letters and personal interviews. Studies have shown that marks alone are not accurate predictors of success in medical practice; personal skills and attributes which can best be assessed by lette...

test anxiety is one of key factors which weaken the student’s morale and confidence and reduce their creativity and gradually become the permanent personal characteristic and mostly results in feeling of inadequacy. human’s locus of control is usually roots in personal belief system about the causes of the different personal experience and the causes of the success or failure, so it has great e...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of a selected motor program (as a motor experience) on manipulative skills in 4-6-year-old boys. 40 subjects were selected randomly using a personal information questionnaire. after the pretest, the ulrich's test of gross motor development (2000) including fundamental motor skills, locomotors skills, manipulative skills and controllin...

BACKGROUND Nurses require certain skills for progression in their field. Identifying these skills can provide the context for nursing career advancement. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to identify the skills needed for nurses' career advancement. MATERIALS AND METHODS A qualitative approach using content analysis was adopted to study a purposive sample of eighteen nurses working in teaching ho...

Executive Summary Understanding the skill sets required of IT personnel is a critical endeavor for both business organizations and academic or training institutions. Companies spend crucial resources training personnel, particularly new IT employees, and educational institutions must know what skills are essential in order to plan an effective curriculum. Rapid advances in technology, as well a...

ENWEndNote BIBJabRef, Mendeley RISPapers, Reference Manager, RefWorks, Zotero AMA Malinowska-Lipień I, Kawalec-Kajstura E, Bodys-Cupak et al. GivingCare – Empowering personal caregivers and assistants by developing technical, soft, digital skills. Nursing Problems / Problemy Pielęgniarstwa. 2022;30(3):83-88. doi:10.5114/ppiel.2022.125544. APA Malinowska-Lipień, I., Kawalec-Kajstura, E., Bodys-C...

The assumption that social skills are necessary ingredients of collaborative learning is well established but rarely empirically tested. In addition, most theories on collaborative learning focus on social skills only at the personal level, while the social skill configurations within a learning group might be of equal importance. Using the integrative framework, this study investigates which s...

ICS students seeking employment need to consider the balance of transferable and subject-specific technical skills required for employability. However, reflection upon individual skills gaps is often an uncomfortable experience for ICS students. The Placement Pitch project is being developed in one university to encourage students to diagnose their personal skills gaps and to take action to imp...