12 articles for “knowledge and competencies”

Research ArticleOpen accessPhrase in the titleSatisfaction with Knowledge and Competencies: A Multi-Country Study of Employers and Business GraduatesAna Azevedo, Doris Gomezelj Omerzel, Jane Andrews et al.Problem statement: This study critically discusses findings from a research project involving four European countries. The project had two main aims. The first was to develop a systematic procedure for assessing the balance between knowledge and competencies acquired in higher, further and vocational education and the specific needs of the labor market. The second aim was to develop and test … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 4, Issue 1 · 14 Jan 2012 · 15,002 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsTacit Knowledge CodificationMarzanah A. Jabar, Fatimah Sidi, Mohd. Hasan SelamatProblem statement: In managing knowledge and competencies as a strategic advantage to an organization, there are difficulties in capturing, storing, sharing and reusing all this knowledge. Researchers have agreed that assessing tacit knowledge is difficult because knowhow of an employee are elusive and what more to assess them. It is compounded when employees leave the organization or become unavailable due … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 6, Issue 10 · 10 Aug 2010 · 10,218 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractSemSimp: A Parametric Method for Evaluating the Semantic Similarity of Digital ResourcesAntonio De Nicola, Anna Formica, Ida Mele, Francesco TaglinoAbioui, H., Idarrou, A., Bouzit, A., & Mammass, D. (2018). Towards a Novel and Generic Approach for OWL Ontology Weighting. Procedia Computer Science, 127, 426–435. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2018.01.140 Adhikari, A., Dutta, B., Dutta, A., Mondal, D., & Singh, S. (2018). An intrinsic information content-based semantic similarity measure considering the disjoint common subsumers of concepts of an ontology. Journal of the Association for … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 20, Issue 8 · 27 May 2024 · 5,773 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractMODELING OF PETROLEUM ENGINEERS DESIGN-TECHNOLOGICAL COMPETENCE FORMING IN PHYSICAL-MATHEMATICAL DISCIPLINES STUDYING PROCESSIlsiyar Mingatinovna Zaripova, Albina Rafisovna Shaidullina, Alla Evgenyevna Upshinskaya et al.The essence and contents of students’ project technical competence as a synthesis of design and technical competencies, including special knowledge, abilities, skills and personal qualities which are necessary for their future professional duties effective implementation, particular, for engineering projects successful implementation, requiring technical calculations performing and abilities, allowing to operate in professional activity effectively, to be guided in work situations … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 7 · 19 Apr 2014 · 6,937 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractA STUDY OF FIRST YEAR TERTIARY STUDENTS’ MATHEMATICAL KNOWLEDGE- CONCEPTUAL AND PROCEDURAL KNOWLEDGE, LOGICAL THINKING AND CREATIVITYGurudeo Anand Tularam, Kees HulsmanThis study focuses on students in first year environmental science degree programs where traditionally mathematical emphasis has been much less than the strict science or math majors. The importance now placed in applied mathematics means that students need to gain more conceptual and quantitative knowledge in not only the environmental degree programs but also in most if not all non-mathematical … …Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Vol. 9, Issue 3 · 1 Aug 2013 · 7,255 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractE-Learning Initiative Capacity Building for Healthcare Workforce of Developing CountriesNurhizam Safie, Syed AljunidThis study aims to explicate the strategic utilisation of e-learning is of upmost significance as e-learning plays a pivotal role in the improvement of healthcare learning and knowledge transfer, especially in developing countries and in pursuing of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Rapid technology changes in the learning and knowledge transfer landscape markedly, the swift pace of e-learning leaving healthcare providers … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 9, Issue 5 · 23 May 2013 · 7,761 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractRural Students’ Skills and Attitudes Towards Information and Communication TechnologyHairulliza M. Judi, Hazilah M. Amin, Nor A.M. Zin, Rodziah LatihProblem statement: Despite various initiatives and programmes by the government to incorporate ICT in education, not much research has been done to evaluate the achievement of these initiatives and programmes, including ICT proficiency among students. This study fills in the gap of lack of current information pertaining to the Malaysian secondary school students’ ICT competencies, knowledge on internet and attitudes … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 4 · 21 Oct 2011 · 7,962 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractInstrument of Primary School Teacher CompetencyAbdulghani M. Alnoor, Ma HongyuProblem statement: The study aimed to investigating the Primary School Teacher Competency (PSTC) and design an PSTC instrument to reflect state standard and use this instrument to compare and evaluate primary school teacher competency. Approach: For this reason, the researcher formulated the following question. What are the necessary teaching competencies of Primary School Teachers (PSTC)? To find answer to the … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 4 · 16 Sep 2011 · 8,817 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractOn Becoming an Entrepreneurial Leader: A Focus on the Impacts of University Entrepreneurship ProgramsAfsaneh Bagheri, Zaidatol Akmaliah Lope PihieProblem statement: Despite the significant influences of university entrepreneurship programs in developing students’ entrepreneurial intention and abilities, there is little knowledge about how such programs shape students’ abilities to successfully lead entrepreneurial activities. Approach: The main purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the impacts of university entrepreneurship programs in developing students’ entrepreneurial leadership competencies. A sample of 14 … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 8, Issue 9 · 1 Aug 2011 · 7,656 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractCapturing Tacit Knowledge for Assessing Employees' Competency and ProductivityMarzanah A. Jabar, Fatimah Sidi, Mohd Hasan Selamat et al.Problem statement: Organization has to evaluate the competencies of their workers to improve organizational productivity. However, this is difficult because organizations have difficulties to capture and retain knowledge especially tacit knowledge of their employees. Approach: The study reviewed selected literature on management knowledge and employers competencies. It also reviewed existing frameworks in knowledge management focusing on the capturing and storing … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 3, Issue 2 · 27 May 2011 · 8,324 accessesView PDF Cite