Direct observation of procedural skills (DOPS) is a new workplace assessment tool. The aim of this narrative review of literature is to summarize the available evidence about the validity, reliability, feasibility, acceptability and educational impact of DOPS. A PubMed database and Google search of the literature on DOPS published from January 2000 to January 2012 was conducted which yielded 30...

: Practical skills are complex procedures integrating communication and caring, as well technical manual aspects. Simulation at a simulation/skills center offers wide range of learning activities aims to imitate patient situations. To investigate the international research literature on practical in centers nursing education. Research questions: 1. What type studied? 2. focused studies included...

Facilitating oral skills through authentic materials such as music has been essential in foreign language teaching (FLT). However, a model whose core element is to develop adolescent EFL learners’ narrative songs with highly emotional lyrics still non-existent. Furthermore, engaging students vivid debates about everyday topics which they can relate considered key their skills. Both, themes and ...

Narrative has been used in the assessment of children’s language skills for some time but rarely with bilingual children (though see Gutiérrez-Clellen 2002). This paper examines narratives of a sample of German/English bilingual children in terms of standard measures and differences in the children’s retellings of a story. Whereas on the standard measures the bilinguals seem similar to monoling...

OBJECTIVE The present study was aimed at establishing how a group of depressed young adults (diagnosed depressive by DSM-IV) identified with a depressive prototype narrative compared to a non-depressed equivalent group. MATERIALS AND METHODS The sample had 100 participants in each group. Ages ranged from 18 to 47 (male and female), the subjects coming from socioeconomic groups two to four, ir...

Language batteries used to assess the skills of elderly individuals, such as naming and semantic verbal fluency, present some limitations in differentiating healthy controls from patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (a-MCI). Deficits in narrative discourse occur early in dementia caused by Alzheimer's disease (AD), and the narrative discourse abilities of a-MCI patients are poorly d...