This study aims to describe and analyze school principals’ managerial competence in increasing the productivity of Raudhatul Athfal educational institutions Jambi Province, beginning with program planning, organization, implementation, monitoring, evaluation. is a field qualitative approach. Techniques for gathering data include observation, documentation, interviews. Data analysis employs an i...

The paper explores the link between managerial performance and cost efficiency of 617 Japanese general local public hospitals in 1999-2007. Treating managerial performance as unobservable heterogeneity, the paper employs a panel data stochastic cost frontier model with latent classes. Financial parameters associated with better managerial performance are found to be positively significant in ex...

BACKGROUND Before the 1970s, research into the development of clinical competence was mainly focused on general problem-solving abilities. The scope of research changed when Elstein and colleagues discovered that individual ability to solve clinical problems varies considerably across cases. It was concluded that problem solving abilities are highly dependent on domain-specific knowledge rather...