The Competencies of High School Principals in District Four of Mashhad H. Ekrami, M.A. V. Hoshyar, Ph.D. The present study was conducted to identify the competencies of high school principals, propose a competency model, and validate the model. The research was carried out in district four of Mashhad in 2015 and examined two questions: 1.What are the dimensions and components o...

This paper presents results of topic modeling and network models of topics using the ICCS corpus, which contains domain-specific (computational science) papers over sixteen years (a total of 5695 papers). We discuss topical structures of ICCS, how these topics evolve over time in response to the topicality of various problems, technologies and methods, and how all these topics relate to one ano...

this study has two main purposes including examining the structural model of leadership stereotype, leadership competency, and achievement motivation in leadership role and investigating the moderating effects of gender on the overall model. using a sample of 303 extension agents from three jihad-e-agriculture organizations of tehran, kermanshah, and khorasan razavi provinces in iran, we conduc...

In competency-based education, it is important to frequently evaluate the degree of competency achieved by establishing and specifying competency levels. To self-appraise one's own competency level, one needs a simple, clear, and accurate description for each competency level. This study aimed at developing competency stages that can be used in surveys and conceptualizing clear and precise comp...

Background Entrepreneurship education seeks to provide students with the knowledge, skills and motivation to encourage entrepreneurial success in a variety of settings. The present study has been developed with the aim of designing a Competency Model for Educ...

Background: the success of faculty members of Medical Sciences Universities in medical education arena requires qualification and capabilities authentication in relation with education.  In order to achieve these capabilities, it is necessary to use new and influential approaches of empowerment. One of the appropriate approaches is “Competency Based Training” (CBT). In this method, competencies...

Adaptive assessment provides efficient and personalised routes to establishing the proficiencies of learners. We can envisage a future in which learners are able to maintain and expose their competency profile to multiple services, throughout their life, which will use the competency information in the model to personalise assessment. Current competency standards tend to over simplify the repre...

Despite the vital role of information in relational-oriented firms, there are limited studies on the impact of information quality on relationship marketing. To address this gap, this study develops a conceptual model to examine the impact of information quality on the successful implementation of relationship marketing by assessing the mediating role of salespeople's relational competency. The...

background: nurses are the main members in nursing cares and nursing managers can improve their clinical competency by applying better leadership skills. this study carried out to determine the effect of nursing management program on clinical competency of nurses in a coronary care unit (ccu). methods: a quasi-experimental study was carried out in two educational hospitals in yazd- iran. these ...