Despite the comorbidity between motor difficulties and certain disabilities, limited research has examined links between early motor, cognitive, and social skills in preschool-aged children with developmental disabilities. The present study examined the relative contributions of gross motor and fine motor skills to the prediction of improvements in children's cognitive and social skills among 2...

In this article, we adopt a two-step strategy to assess the relative roles of cognitive and noncognitive skills in mediating the relationship between family SES and children’s academic achievement using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort. First, we decompose the total effects of family background on children’s achievement into: (1) direct effects of family back...

OBJECTIVE Stimulating communication is an important workplace issue. We investigated the effects of a brief communication skills training (CST) program based on the principles of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). METHODS A randomized controlled trial was conducted on 206 white-collar workers. The intervention group underwent a 2-hour CST group training conducted by an occupational physician...

This article examines the role of cognitive, metacognitive, and motivational skills in problem solving. Cognitive skills include instructional objectives, components in a learning hierarchy, and components in information processing. Metacognitive skills include strategies for reading comprehension, writing, and mathematics. Motivational skills include motivation based on interest, self-efficacy...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between cognitive disability and social skills in an acute care adult inpatient psychiatric population (n = 55). METHOD Independent ratings of patient's social skills were made during a semistructured interview using the Social Interaction Test (SIT), followed by measurement of cognitive disability using the revised Alle...

the effect of active learning model on cognitive and clinical skills among icu nursing students     baghaei r [1] , mohammadpour y [2] *, naderi a [3] , rasouli d [4] , sheikhi n [5]     received: 4 sep, 2011 accepted: 15 nov, 2011     abstract   background & aims : the clinical education and evaluation of nursing education is a fundamental pillar. this study aimed to assess the achievement of ...

This paper investigates a computational approach to transfer: the ability to use previously learned knowledge on related but distinct tasks. We study transfer in the context of an agent architecture, Icarus, and we claim that many forms of transfer follow automatically from its use of structured concepts and skills. We show that Icarus can acquire structured representations from domain experien...