Soft skills are particular abilities that can improve one's employment performance and career prospects. These soft skills help students to develop their employability skills and make them confident to work in a performance oriented work environment as a critical lifelong learner...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2012/1858
Aims: The prime objective of this study is to examine the gender specific barriers that cause exclusion from mainstream entrepreneurship faced by female entrepreneurs in Pakistan. Study Design: The study employed a research design where qualitative method was used. Self administe...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2012/2128
Aims: Many women are entrepreneurs worldwide however the global impact of female entrepreneurs is just beginning to achieve intensity and concentration. The number of female business owners continues to increase steadily worldwide, today women in advanced markets and economies ow...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2012/2129
Aim: This study investigated the relationship between burnout and self-efficacy among EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teachers. In addition, differences in teachers’ burnout and self-efficacy were examined with respect to demographics. Study Design: Correlational / EX post fa...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2012/1636
Aims: This study investigated the effectiveness of cooperative learning strategies on Nigerian Junior Secondary students’ academic achievement in basic science. Study Design: Quasi experimental pretest – posttest – delayed posttest control group design was used by the researchers...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2012/1628
The first aim of the current study was to identify the relative contribution of several theoretically relevant skills in accounting for variance in both word reading and reading comprehension in a normal sample of one-hundred Spanish-speaking children in first grade (average age...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2012/1698
Aim: To investigate degrees to which classroom teachers presented features of discussion method in their lesson presentations and how they involved learners on the features, namely, questioning, listening, and responding in classrooms. Study Design: Lesson/Class Observation. Plac...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2012/1659
Aims: In this article, we will consider the possibility of raising children to be good and moral people and what kinds of ethical challenges this aspiration involves. We will discuss these issues, the problems that arise when raising children to be good—including its moral dimens...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2012/1331
Aims: 1. To investigate the students’ levels of geometric thinking while engaging in in-class tangram activities in a large-enrollment class; 2. To find out the student’s perception towards the use of tangrams in learning geometry. Study Design: Case study research design. Place...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2012/1612
Aims: Burnout, vigor and work engagement are important issues for work related well-being. In Turkey, the well-being of medical residents is a neglected issue and no attention has been given to the evaluation of this situation. This study has two aims, first to assess the reliabi...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2012/1496