In 2009 a pilot project was undertaken to develop and enhance Personal Development Planning (PDP) and employability skills amongst final year undergraduates on the BA Business Management degree. Developed in conjunction with students, the Careers and Employability service and the Academic Skills unit, a Personal Development and Employability Workbook was generated. Student learning from this to...

Background: Adolescence is one of the most important periods of life for all people. This is a transition period from childhood to adulthood, through which individuals should learn to make the right decisions and apply the life skills. This study aimed to explain the life skills' experiences of 12-14 year-old female adolescen...

Introduction: Inadequately supported clinicians risk burnout, which is prevalent among them. Balint-like groups can be utilized to address clinician stressors and augment interpersonal skills by exploring the clinician-patient relationship. Methods: In January 2012, we initiated the Clinical Case Discussion Group (CCDG), based on Michael Balint’s Balint group, at the Boston University School of...

introduction: evaluation of teachers is considered among top priorities in an educational institution. most of the universities around the world including universities in iran have considered feedback from students as the only or main source of assessment of the quality of teaching process for many years. regarding the existing disagreements in evaluation, the purpose of this study is to invest...

background: the clinical evaluation, as one of the most important elements in medical education, must measure students’ competencies and abilities. the implementation of any assessment tool is basically dependent on the acceptance of students. this study tried to assess midwifery students’ satisfaction with direct observation of procedural skills (dops) and current clinical evaluation methods. ...

Health and Moral Stress Questionnaire (HMSQ) was constructed with the aim to assess organizational learning processes and individual skills necessary for the handling of problems connected to five areas of activity: work demands, work task control, support, computer tool use, and ethics. The main hypothesis was that the existence of organizational learning processes and individual skills contri...

This paper attempts to investigate if the undergraduates’ core competencies are able to meet with the requirements set by the employers and to analyse the effectiveness of personal qualities and employability skills development in private university in Malaysia. Questionnaires survey, mean score comparison, and independent sample t-test are used to capture the perception differential between 30...

formation of collaborative groups in a the self of the three steps method The aim of this paper is to present problem-based learning environment. The self-formation of collaborative groups is based on sharing of accountability among students for solving instructional problems. The steps of the method are planning collaborative problem solving, self-evaluation of students, and building collabora...