Deficiencies In Basic Skills Research Articles

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Lifelong learning is one of the most important concepts of the 21st century. This concept includes all learning activities that the individual continues throughout his life. In this process, it focuses on the lifelong development of knowledge, skills and competencies that will help us survive in personal, social and economic life. For this, studies in three areas are emphasized. These are developing the individual by creating learning opportunities, realizing social integration and providing economic growth. As a result of these studies, it is tried to create learning societies and learning world. Literacy is the first link of lifelong learning. Lifelong learning is not possible without developing the basic language and mental skills of the individual. For this reason, literacy is prioritized in most countries and intensive studies are carried out. However, it is observed that these are not enough, and that illiteracy is spreading among adults. Covert illiteracy refers to basic skill deficiencies. The most important of these are language skills such as reading and writing, mental skills and skills necessary for daily life. Those who do not read or write in secret are people who cannot improve or forget these skills even though they have finished a school. There are 3 million in some industrialized countries and more than 5 million in our country. In order to prevent this situation, emphasis should be placed on developing basic skills of school-age students and adults.

Output Quality in Management Education in India - An Honest Introspection

The paper is an introspection by a management professor on what needs to be done to improve the professional qualities of the management graduates who come out of Business Schools in thousands every year in India but seem to have deficiencies in basic skills, knowledge and attitudes required for a 'manager'.

Construcción y validación de un cuestionario para medir conductas, conocimientos y actitudes sobre la higiene de las manos en personal sanitario en formación

Hand hygiene in the health context is a complex behaviour. There have been rarely given the role of the knowledge and attitudes as predictors of hand hygiene behaviour. The main objective of this work is the description of the development of a questionnaire on hand hygiene and the analysis of their measurement properties. An instrument which was designed and validated a questionnaire. It was held in January 2009. It finally has had 50 items that assess risk behaviour intention before and after contact with the patient, declarative knowledge and attitudes about hand hygiene. It has been applied to 431 students of health sciences at the University of Granada. There were three factor analysis, ultimately obtaining a general convergence value that explains 46.01% of the total variance and high reliability (a = 0,843). There is correlation between knowledge and behavior intentions before and after patient contact (p < 0.01).In turn, the attitude correlates only with behavioral intention before (p < 0.05). The hand hygiene behavior refers to a higher mean after the completion of various health activities before the same (4.26 and 3.96 respectively). Both declarative knowledge and attitudes significantly predict behavioral intention, in particular the conduct before the contact with the patient (R² = 0.100, standardized Beta 0.256 for knowledge and 0.145 for attitudes). The questionnaire shows high internal consistency. We have obtained a valid tool for assessing risk behavior, knowledge and attitudes about students' hand hygiene in health sciences. The tool detects deficiencies in basic skills in students.

Solutions to Literacy Deficiencies in the Workplace; A Survey of Current Practices

Much attention has focused on employee basic skill (literacy) problems in recent years. Most authorities on the topic have focused their attention on two solutions alone: (a) offering in-house training to employees short-term solution intended to rectify existing basic skill deficiencies in the workforce; and (b) supporting public education as a long-term solution intended to ensure that future job applicants/employees possess basic skills adequate for beginning work. Few writers or authorities have suggested alternative performance improvement strategies to address basic skill problems. This article identifies a range of performance improvement strategies for addressing basic skill deficiencies and summarizes results of a recent survey of training and development professionals about how often these strategies are used in their organizations. In general, many survey respondents indicated that their organizations are using many different performance improvement strategies to address basic skill problems.

Double Jeopardy: Testing the Effects of Multiple Basic Skill Deficiencies on Successful Remediation

Prior research has established that the depth and breadth of remedial need in basic skills (math and English) exhibited by a student at college entry are strongly and negatively associated with the likelihood of achieving college-level competency in those subjects (i.e., successful remediation). This well-documented finding is built upon a body of work employing either simple bivariate analyses or regression analyses that assume additive effects. Yet, there are reasons to suspect that multiple basic skill deficiencies, rather than exhibiting additive effects alone, may exhibit a negative multiplicative interaction effect on the likelihood of successful remediation. In this research, I test the hypothesis that the negative effect of math deficiency increases in magnitude with decreasing English competency. Although the data support this hypothesis, I find that this interaction does not have substantive importance in the face of the powerful direct effect of math deficiency on the likelihood of successful remediation in math.

Task force 4: The relationship between cardiovascular specialists and generalists

1. An imbalance between generalists and cardiovascular subspecialists exists that will require decades to correct. We question the validity of the 50:50 generalist/specialist ratio in view of current practice patterns for cardiology. 2. There has been a large increase in the number of cardiovascular specialists in the past 30 years that will continue if training programs remain at their current size. 3. Cardiovascular specialists provide a substantial amount of inpatient care, care to older patients and care to those with cardiovascular symptoms, although generalists actually provide the majority of office-based cardiovascular care. 4. A significant portion of cardiovascular specialist care can be classified as comprehensive care to patients with and without cardiovascular disease. 5. Most generalists and cardiovascular specialists do not perceive a need for additional cardiovascular specialists. 6. Many providers perform cardiovascular procedures at levels below the recommended threshold for maintenance of clinical competence. 7. Managed care may result in a reduced demand for cardiovascular specialists. 8. If cardiovascular specialists provide general care, it may not be assumed that previous training prepares them for generalist practice. 9. The appropriate boundaries of cardiovascular care between generalists and cardiovascular specialists are indistinct. They are defined somewhat by the training programs from which the generalists graduate. 10. Many generalists have deficiencies in basic skills in clinical cardiology. 11. Desirable interactions between generalists and cardiovascular specialists involve referral of patients in both directions to the provider who can give care to a given patient, at a given time, with the best outcome and lowest cost.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

Issues and options in literacy training

When was the last time you saw a job application with no spelling or grammatical errors? Basic skill deficiencies among people at all levels of business are forcing companies to develop innovative ways of compensating for and correcting the problem. What follows is a summary of literacy training strategies and suggestions for implementation.

Skills Testing at American Newspapers

Frustrated by experiences of finding out too late about job candidates' deficiencies in basic skills and dissatisfied with standard job interviews as an effective screening device, many editors are turning to skills testing to help them determine who can make the grade.

Group Counseling and Remediation: A Two-Faceted Intervention Approach to the Problem of Attrition in Nursing Education1

This study was designed to investigate the effectiveness of brief group therapy for underachievement, and remediation for deficiencies in basic skills, in reducing the attrition rate of nursing students. Students whose entering California Test of Achievement scores or GPA’s indicated risk of academic failure were interviewed: those with high scores (underachievers) received appropriate therapy, those with low scores and no motivational problems received remediation, and those with low’ scores plus motivational problems received both (20 hours total for each). Results indicated that a significant decrease in attrition rate can be attained by the foregoing techniques.