A large body of work addresses various cognitive-behavioral processes that lead to career choice (or discouragement), including the concepts of awareness, self-efficacy (and closely related notions such as autonomy, confidence, proficiency, and competence), engagement (or involvement), and relevance (Bandura, 1994; Blustein and Flum, 1999; Dorsen et al., 2006).
Confidence and proficiency in a modern foreign language such as French, German or Spanish can be useful in many careers.
In my courses, I also focus on developing students' writing so that they gain confidence and proficiency in clearly communicating their ideas.
We developed and tested a clinical simulation program in the principles and conduct of cardiopulmonary bypass with the aim of improving confidence and proficiency in this critical aspect of cardiac surgical care.
And Kuo's gesture is rewarded: over the course of seven months, while Patrick is awaiting trial, she reads prose and poetry with him (difficult, serious work: W. G. Sebald, George Herbert, Ammons, Whitman, Baldwin, Akhmatova), tutoring him in how to read, but also delightedly watching him grow in confidence and proficiency as a writer.
In addition, differences in major study variables between faculties were examined and results indicated that students from the Faculty of Engineering and Information and those from the Faculty of Economics and Business respectively reported the highest and the lowest level of linguistic confidence, L2 proficiency and socio-cultural adaptation among the five faculties sampled.
Students require a sense of relevance, extensive practice, and prompt feedback in order to develop confidence and proficiency applying quantitative skills in biological contexts.
Such providers are well-trained and well-supplied, are mentally oriented to take the time to provide IUDs, and provide them with a high enough frequency so as to have high confidence and proficiency.
Activities conducted by ZPCT included training health care workers in counseling and testing, PMTCT and commodity management, and intensive onsite mentorship to ensure the confidence and proficiency of the health care workers (HCWs).
The sustained effects of a brief multimodal educational intervention in managing dental emergencies on practice confidence and proficiency demonstrates its value as an educational model that could be applied to other settings and health professional groups providing emergency primary care, particularly in rural and remote settings.
Reconstructed from Allens own recollections and those of his crew, the scenes describing the crash are taut and dramatic, displaying a confidence and literary proficiency that Childers previous book lacked.
