In recent years many different forms of competency models have been used in curricular design, quality assurance and education research. This trend has also been addressed and reinforced in higher education, particularly within the framework of the Bologna Reform (in terms of competency-based learning). Competency models now play a role in the education and professional advancement of universit...

Competency-based Education (CBE) is an educational model that allows students to learn and demonstrate their abilities at their own pace. CBE is growing in popularity in undergraduate educational programs and its role in pharmacy education in the United States (US) is under review. In comparison, medical education is utilizing competency-based approaches (such as competencies and Entrustable Pr...

According to the Model of Human Occupation (MOHO), beliefs regarding competency can influence whether a person's occupational role behavior is adaptive or maladaptive. Such beliefs are considered to be part of a person's sense of "personal causation." This article reviews some of the theoretical underpinnings of the personal causation construct. Issues addressed are the distinction between comp...

The social environment can play an important role in organizing organisms’ behavioural development. We studied the effect on adult male cowbirds’ communication and matingrelated behaviour of being housed in social groups with juvenile males. In two large outdoor aviaries, we housed adult males, juvenile females and adult females either with or without juvenile males. Conditions remained intact ...

We propose a two-dimensional evaluation scheme for assessing the quality of implied cost of capital (ICC) estimates when price is noisy. Under fairly general assumptions, high-quality ICC estimates should: (a) better forecast future realized returns, and (b) better forecast future ICCs. Empirically, we compare seven alternative ICC estimates and show that several perform well along both dimensi...

Based on student survey data from five East Asian countries, the paper contains an analysis of attitudes towards the use of personal connections in politics and towards personal morality among politicians. The first part of the analysis describes the extent and variations of these attitudes which are viewed as of particular relevance within the East Asian context. The second part of the analysi...

I develop a novel diagnostic procedure to estimate the associations between measurement errors of expected returns proxies and …rm characteristics. Application to GLS, a popular implementation of the implied cost of capital ("ICC"), yields the …rst direct empirical evidence that ICC measurement errors i) are persistent, ii) can be associated with …rms’risk or growth characteristics, and therefo...

While a vast amount of research has focused on the evaluation of competency to stand trial, there is a relative dearth of research on competency restoration. Only recently have systematic research efforts begun to focus on the issue of restoration. Two primary areas of inquiry regarding restoration have emerged: the prediction of restorability (and the examination of variables related to succes...

1 Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor, Department of Mathematics, Fellow AIAA. 2 Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Department of Mathematics. 3 Research Scientist, Structural Acoustics Branch, Aerodynamics, Aerothermodynamics and Acoustics Competency, Member AIAA. 4 Senior Research Scientist, Computational Modeling and Simulation Branch, Aerodynamics, Aerothermodynamics and Acoustics Compe...

OBJECTIVES Disaster health workers currently have no common standard based on a shared set of competencies, learning objectives, and performance metrics with which to develop courses or training materials relevant to their learning audience. We examined how existing competency sets correlate within the 2012 pyramidal learning framework of competency sets in disaster medicine and public health c...