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Showing 1 to 20 of 232 for “"cognitive skills"”.
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The role of multimodal sensorimotor involvement in the learning of cognitive skills
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1996.
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Relationship Between Non-Cognitive Skills And GPA In A Rural Maine Community College
… has altered the workscape, emphasizing non-cognitive skills required for success in the workforce. Community colleges that profess workforce readiness in their workreadiness programs use primarily cognitive assessment to ensure content and curricular learning. This quantitative study of …
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Examining the Impact of a Coaching Training Program on Coaches' Non-Cognitive Skills
… Coaching program may have on coaches' non-cognitive skills. Non-cognitive skills are the fundamental characteristics predictive of behavior development and life-long achievement. Considered one of the most influential roles' in young peoples' lives, the focus on coaching has become more …
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What we learn in school: Cognitive and non-cognitive skills in the educational production function
… to model how achievement and socio-emotional skills enter the relationship and how they are affected during the schooling period. The proposed analyses use a combination of estimation methodologies (longitudinal, multilevel and simultaneous equations models) to empirically assess the …
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The Use of multimedia in Telecare systems to improve the performance of users with different cognitive skills.
… the effect of adapting the interface to suit the cognitive style of individual users. The contributions to knowledge fall into three main areas; firstly the innovations built into a prototype adaptive telecare system, secondly the identification of the sort of tasks and the types of media that …
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Social skills training for individuals with schizophrenia: Evaluation of treatment outcome and acquisition of social and cognitive skills.
Social and cognitive skill acquisition were evaluated in 33 (male=24, female=11) outpatients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder. A social skills training treatment group (n=19) was compared to a wait-list control (n=14). Participants' mean age was 41 years, mean number of …
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Examining the Relationship between Non-cognitive Skills and Leadership: The Influence of Hope and Grit on Transformational Leadership Behavior
… has started to recognize the importance of non-cognitive skills to many successful life outcomes. However, there is little research connecting non-cognitive skills to effective leadership. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to identify and examine the relationship between the non-cognitive …
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Enduring effects of education on cognitive skills, prestige of occupation, and affective behaviors of self-concept and locus of control
… body of research on effects of education on cognitive skills, prestige of occupation, self-concept, and locus of control. However, there are some limitations to previous studies, either because of short-term perspectives or because of lack of controls for earlier measures of intelligence, …
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The Correlations between Teacher Assessment of Second Graders’ Reading Abilities and Their Performance on Subtests of the Test of Cognitive Skills
… performance on the subtests of the Test of Cognitive Skills – Second Edition - Level 1. The need for the study was prompted by the movement of districts to utilize more authentic means of assessing reading ability and explore their consequent validity. It was also to determine if teachers …
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The Evaluation of Company-Sponsored Test-Preparation Courses: Training Different Aged Employees on General Test-Taking Skills and Basic Cognitive Skills
… Two such factors, a lack of general test-taking skills and a reduced level of basic cognitive skills, are thought to contribute most to the test performance of older adults. These factors occur because of the lower level of education and greater length of time since formal schooling for older …
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The relationship between achievement on the test of cognitive skills and the Stanford-Binet intelligence scale : fourth edition for elementary school students
… obtained on the group-administered Test of Cognitive Skills (TCS) and those they obtained on the individually administered Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale: Fourth Edition (SB:FE). Comparisons were made between the Cognitive Skills Index (CSI) and Sattler's Factor scores from the SB:FE, and …
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Student Perceptions of Grit, Emotional-Social Intelligence, and the Acquisition of Non-Cognitive Skills in the Cristo Rey Corporate Work Study Program
… educational and professional endeavors are non-cognitive skills such as grit and emotional-social intelligence (Bar-On, 2006; Bar-On & Parker, 2000; Duckworth, Peterson, Matthews, & Kelly, 2007; Duckworth & Quinn, 2009; Gardner, 1983; Goleman, 1995; Salovey & Mayer, 1990; Tough, 2012). With …
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An investigation into the cognitive skills required by pupils to master concept formation in the field of homeostasis, an aspect of human physiology
… of pupils, the pioneer group, were screened for cognitive deficiencies. major cornmon deficiencies were identified as impulsivity, the use two or more sources of information simultaneously, spatial and temporal orientation. a second phase, the essence of this investigation, sought ways in which …
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Functional Cognitive Activities for Adults with Traumatic Brain Injury: Pilot Case Studies
… investigate the effectiveness of the Functional Cognitive Activities for Adults with Brain Injury: A Sequential Approach (FCA) in generalizing functional cognitive skills across meaningful occupations for adults with traumatic brain injury (TBI). This study was a pretest-posttest design consisted …
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Essays on the Family Economics and Gender
… three studies that focus on the accumulation of cognitive and non-cognitive skills in childhood and financial behaviors of young adults. Chapter 1 analyzes the effect of off-school time use of children on achievement outcomes using unique data on children age 8-12. The data contain detailed …
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