background: reducing drug-related issues less than 18 years of age and increasing population of this group of addiction emphasizes importance of educating social skills for reinforcing drug assistance self-efficiency in this social group. the study was aimed to measure impact of social skills on drug abstinence self-efficacy amongst male students in ahwaz city, southwest iran. methods: with sem...

abstract the setting of rehabilitation for patients with spinal cord injured is promising environment. attending the new strategies is useful to promote the treatment and the patient's ability. this method has a huge challenge for patients encountered with cognitive impairment. patient education and skills at the rehabilitation center can be a challenging endeavor. by rehabilitation, patients s...

Cerebral palsy (CP) is the main cause of physical disability in childhood and is an important health issue that has a strong socioeconomic impact. There is no effective treatment for CP and therapeutic approaches report only partial benefits for affected people. In this study we assessed the effects of growth hormone (GH) treatment combined with psychomotor and cognitive stimulation in the neur...

Targeting Non-Cognitive Skills to Improve Cognitive Outcomes: Evidence from a Remedial Education Intervention A growing body of research highlights the importance of non-cognitive skills as determinants of young people’s cognitive outcomes at school. However, little evidence exists about the effects of policies that specifically target students’ non-cognitive skills as a way to improve educatio...

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the research on reading comprehension, including the cognitive processes employed during comprehension of text, the cognitive deficits associated with poor comprehension, and the research-based characteristics of interventions for improving reading comprehension skills. Comprehension is the essence of reading and the active process of const...

Iran's National curriculum standards represent the guiding blueprints which provide direction for instruction and assessment nationwide. Iran's official university curriculum standards were designed by Iran's Ministry of Sciences, Research and Technologyto provide a frame of reference and guidance for the instructional materials used and decisions made by university instructors.  Using a widely...

The issue of teaching broad-based thinking processes, rather than more contentspecific skills, continues with the emphasis on the development of cognitive skills through the use of investigation, reflection and analysis, synthesis and evaluation to generate or refine knowledge. Such skills are more widely associated with the more complex (‘higher order’) learning strategies proposed by Bloom (1...