The scale should have the sensitivity to measure changes in the possible determinants of aggressive behavior, such as limited control of displayed negative emotions (irritation, anger or rage) and a general deficiency of social skills.
Paul Tough, the author of the 2012 best-seller, How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity and the Hidden Power of Character, would undoubtedly advance this explanation and place the blame on a deficiency of character skills.
Taking into account the CPT, the learner model detected evidence of mastering the subject and also detected evidence of deficiency at a skill or concept level.
This teacher's observation highlights what may well be the school system's worst deficiency in terms of skills development: a failure to promote critical thinking.
Analysis of deficiency in surgical skills in each specific ophthalmic surgical areas showed that areas perceived as more deficient were refractive surgery (65.9% of the subjects perceived deficiency) and orbit (59.2%).
Using the data of family firms in a setting of weak institutions resulting from a deficiency of market-based management skills, we ask which CEO and board characteristics matter?
Indeed, by a singular display of craft, he overcame this slight deficiency with consummate skill.
And our survey of 78 executives from companies that Lou Dobbs (remember him?) harangued for "Exporting America" revealed that they weren't going offshore because of shortages of U.S. talent or deficiencies in the skills of Americans, but because it was cheaper and these companies needed to be closer to growth markets.
Silver has emerged as one of the media's foremost critics of "bullshit" punditry, and recently suggested that a deficiency in math skills marks "a weakness of conventional journalism".
There may also be deficiencies of knowledge and skills about how valid assessments should be performed and also what should be evaluated.
