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Curran, Vernon R.; Butler, Roger; Duke, Pauline; Eaton, William H.; Moffatt, Scott M.; Sherman, Greg P.; Pottle, Madge – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2012
Clinical competence is a multidimensional concept and encompasses a variety of skills including procedural, problem-solving and clinical judgement. The initial stages of postgraduate medical training are believed to be a particularly important time for the development of clinical skill competencies. This study reports on an evaluation of a…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Physical Examinations, Focus Groups, Family Practice (Medicine)
Lee, Lung-Sheng; Lai, Chun-Chin – Online Submission, 2010
Prospective child care givers need to prepare themselves not only for employment but also for entrepreneurship in the field of child care service. In order to explore the entrepreneurial potential of prospective child care givers, an exploratory survey was conducted to survey 68 senior students of a department of child care in a public…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Motivation, Foreign Countries, Child Care
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Vespia, Kristin M.; Fitzpatrick, Mary E.; Fouad, Nadya A.; Kantamneni, Neeta; Chen, Yung-Lung – Career Development Quarterly, 2010
Career counselors' multicultural competence has not been widely investigated. In this study, a national sample of 230 career counselors completed an online survey that included measures of career counseling self-efficacy and multicultural counseling competence. Beyond these self-report instruments, counselors responded to open-ended items that…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Counselor Training, Counselors, Career Counseling
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McKenna, Verna; Connolly, Claire; Hodgins, Margaret – Health Education Journal, 2011
Background: Efforts to identify core competencies within health promotion and health education have been on-going for a number of years. These efforts include work carried out by the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) in drawing up a draft list of 11 core competencies which were incorporated into the practice module on…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Educational Needs, Health Education, Health Promotion
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Augustin, T.; Hockemeyer, C.; Kickmeier-Rust, M.; Albert, D. – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2011
The assessment of knowledge and learning progress in the context of game-based learning requires novel, noninvasive, and embedded approaches. In the present paper, we introduce a mathematical framework which relates the (problem solution) behavior of a learner in the game context to the learner's available and lacking competencies. We argue that a…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Mathematics Instruction, Definitions, Educational Games
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Huang, Chien-Chung; Blake, Allison; Edwards, Richard L.; Liu, Chieh-Wen; Nolan, Robert B.; Rusen, Barbara; Thompson, Dina – Evaluation Review, 2010
Child support enforcement (CSE) has experienced dramatic changes in the last decade; however, it is not clear whether child support staff is fully aware of the development. Using data from the New Jersey child support training program (n = 530), this article aims to evaluate the professional knowledge of child support staff. The results show that…
Descriptors: Children, Career Development, Knowledge Level, Professional Training
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Baneviciute, Birute – Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2010
The principles of education for sustainable development implemented in Lithuanian education system shifted the perceptions of teachers' roles from disseminating knowledge towards developing students' competencies of responsible, critical and creative thinking and acting. The objective of this research is to find out whether pre-service dance…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Competency Testing
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August, P. V.; Swift, J. M.; Kellogg, D. Q.; Page, G.; Nelson, P.; Opaluch, J.; Cobb, J. S.; Foster, C.; Gold, A. J. – Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education, 2010
Although there is considerable activity in developing assessment protocols for undergraduate learning, there are few established models for assessment of student progress in multidisciplinary doctoral-level graduate education. To resolve this impediment in tracking graduate student development, we created a simple assessment tool based on the…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Student Evaluation, Ecology, Student Development
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Braun, Edith M. P.; Sheikh, Hammad; Hannover, Bettina – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2011
Today, a major goal in higher education is the advancement of students' vocational competences. To assess the extent to which this goal is met, both competences acquired during university studies and later vocational success need to be measured. In our study, we collected self-ratings of competences (t1) and indicators of vocational success (t2)…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Academic Achievement, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Graduate Surveys
Brannon, Sian – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2014
Fieldwork exists as a component of many library schools' curricula. Site supervisors, students, and the schools themselves all play a role. A final part of most fieldwork experiences involves the use of an evaluation form filled out by a site supervisor about the student. In this study, forty seven evaluation forms were collected and analyzed…
Descriptors: Field Experience Programs, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Needs, Information Science Education
Renshaw, Rebecca L. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The goal of this study was to create an evaluation tool that would be the new standard for evaluating clinical competencies of interns in the field of orientation and mobility (O&M). Using results from previous research in this area, specific competency skills were identified and the O&M Clinical Competency Evaluation Matrix (CCEM) was…
Descriptors: Orientation, Visually Impaired Mobility, Internship Programs, Clinical Experience
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Litster, Kristin; Roberts, Jillian – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2011
The current meta-analysis compares the self-concepts and perceived competencies of gifted and non-gifted students. Using meta-analytic methods to synthesise the results of 40 studies, we found that gifted students scored significantly higher than non-gifted students on measures of academic and behavioural perceived competence, as well as global…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Meta Analysis, Self Concept, Gifted
Cushnahan, Mary – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2009
The difficulties experienced by vocational education and training (VET) teachers in delivering the generic employability skills embedded in industry training packages are considered in this paper. It suggests that the interpretation of generic skills should not be left to trainers and that a national strategy that is clear concise, comprehensive…
Descriptors: Vocational Education Teachers, Problems, Misconceptions, Interviews
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Teasley, Martell L.; Miller, Christina R. – Children & Schools, 2011
This study explores school social workers' perceptions of their ability to successfully engage in practice tasks that reduce the likelihood of school suspension and undesirable behaviors among racial and ethnic groups within diverse geographical locations (urban, suburban, and rural). Using survey research methods with a convenience sample, 201…
Descriptors: Suspension, Student Behavior, Ethnic Groups, School Social Workers
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Nordin, Norazah; Ibrahim, Sham; Mohd. Hamzah, Mohd. Izham; Embi, Mohamed Amin; Din, Rosseni – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2012
The development in information technology has now moved from the first wave that emphasises on computer technical skills to the second wave which focuses on the application and management aspects. This paper aims to investigate the use of learning management system among future school heads in education management and leadership. The study was…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Information Technology, Leadership, Learning Strategies
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