Purpose: The efficiency of an educational program on entrepreneurial competence, Training the Potential Entrepreneur. Generation of an Educational Model for Entrepreneurial Identify (PEIEO) is evaluated in this study. Design/methodology/approach: Pre and post intervention tests were administered to an Experimental Group (EG) and a Control Group…

The manual presents a curriculum designed for use with emotionally disturbed adolescents. The curriculum is designed to help students learn skills needed to behave in a socially competent manner and to provide teachers with a systematic approach to their instruction. The curriculum consists of four units (self control, problem solving,…

Presents a case study involving the use of self-instructional training with an adolescent schizophrenic boy. Changes initiated in his internal and external dialog with himself improved his self-control and task performance. (JAC)

The author describes a meeting at which he and his students jointly set classroom roles agreeable to everyone. He used the no-lose method of problem solving, posited by Dr. Thomas Gordon, author of Parent Effectiveness Training. The six steps of the method are elucidated. (SJL)

Presents the Decision-Making Process Model, a framework for working through questions that require action. The seven steps are identifying the decision; determining why it is needed; identifying alternatives; analyzing information; estimating practicality; and deciding on a conclusion. The focus is on adolescent sexual decisions. (Author/JAC)

Two studies examined the effectiveness of self-instruction training via a specially developed computer program to modify the impulsive problem-solving behavior of 16 deaf and 10 learning disabled (aphasic) adolescents attending two special residential schools in Canada. In the control condition, students learned the Apple LOGO computing language…

This manual and workbook for adolescents presents a curriculum promoting self-understanding and understanding the points of view of others in order to resolve conflicts and solve common problems. After a review of problems adolescents face and a discussion of the skills needed to work effectively in a group, the lessons present the following steps…

Sixteen impulsive hearing-impaired adolescents were trained to solve visual problems using a modified version of the "LOGO" computer language; subjects received concurrently presented self-instruction training while controls did not. On two dependent measures of impulsive problem-solving behaviors, treatment subjects demonstrated…

The "Viewpoints 10" curriculum is a 10-lesson structured training program for adolescents, designed to teach social problem-solving skills, increase impulse control, promote empathy, and develop prosocial attitudes. The lessons are intended to give students insight into themselves and to help them examine the motivation for their…

The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…