Using the situated expectancy value theory (SEVT), we explored self-perceived attainment perspectives of adults with low literacy on skill-based (i.e., reading, writing, listening, speaking) and life-based management day-to-day challenges, use skills in daily living, confidence) improvements following a literacy-focused remediation program. Participants (N = 103; Canadian, urban adults) complet...

The study aims to describe the integrated curriculum organizational management in implementing life skill-based learning elementary schools. This research method was descriptive, using type of field research. informants this were principal and deputy section at SDN Samirono. Data collection techniques used observation, interviews, documentation. While data analysis reduction, presentation, conc...

Adolescent substance abuse is a serious problem in Hong Kong. Antidrug education campaigns should aim at enhancing students' understanding of the effects of illegal drugs to themselves. Moreover, life skill training is important in helping adolescents face life's challenges without attempting to do drugs. A major component of life skill training is the promotion of emotional competence. The pre...

Life long learning is important to keep oneself up-to-date in ones profession. Due to the rapid evolutionary nature of computer science, life long learning becomes even more important. Equipping the students with critical and creative thinking skills can make learning more effective. Critical and creative thinking skills can be taught either by offering explicit courses on such topics or the im...

To learn to read is to acquire a visual language skill that systematically maps onto extant spoken language skills. Some children perform this task quite adeptly, while others encounter much difficulty, and it has become a question of both scientific and practical merit to ask why there exists such a range of success in learning to read. Obviously, learning to read places a complex burden on ma...

While the need for hierarchies within control systems is apparent, it is also clear to many researchers that such hierarchies should be learned. Learning both the structure and the component behaviors is a diicult task. The beneet of learning the hierarchical structures of behaviors is that the decomposition of the control structure into smaller transportable chunks allows previously learned kn...