From the very beginning of our efforts at UNC we have characterized entrepreneurship not as a discipline or even a set of discrete skills but rather as a way of thinking.
This paper investigates the degree to which multidimensional skills profiles of children can be reliably estimated with confirmatory factor analysis models, which result in continuous skill profiles, and diagnostic classification models, which result in discrete skill profiles.
But literacy requires not just a set of discrete skills — spelling, grammar — but also a kind of comprehension that is hard to measure with an app.
A curriculum focused on training for a specific job like teaching or nursing tends to emphasize discrete skills — say, writing a lesson plan or drawing blood — over general skills like critical thinking.
The decision to use rating scales alone aligns with the idea that mastery of the parts (ie, discrete skills on a checklist) does not indicate competency of the whole.
In their first year, students work within the requirements of their area to build a strong base of disciplinary knowledge while also developing additional discrete skills relevant to LSTD.
This chapter reviews the multifaceted strengths of the ecobehavioral approach to classroom assessment and second, based on this literature review, to outline a four-level "ecobehavioral" assessment model that includes the essential discrete skills within each level, as directed by the literature.
The majority of states include some components of the nature of science within their standards, but these are most often presented as simplistic, discrete skills (e.g., students will be able to "develop a hypothesis" or "interpret a sequence of events").
Furman's records involve at least seventy discrete skills, the bulk of which, such as bowling backward, riding a unicycle backward, and bouncing a golf ball on a golf club, he learns for the attempt.
The paradox is that even as the normal aging brain loses capacity across numerous discrete skills — memory-processing speed, verbal reasoning and visuospatial ability, to name a few — it is simultaneously growing in knowledge, emotional maturity, adaptability to change and even levels of well-being and happiness.
Take reading for instance, there are many discrete skills that make up the ability to read fluently.
