Considering the importance of information and information cues in triggering specific perceptions, individual's prior as well as current information becomes important in the development of ability perceptions (Shane, 2000; Ucbasaran et al. 2008; Nanda and Sorensen, 2010).
The development of ability in using meta-commentaries in teacher education is highly relevant in light of evidence that without such commentaries, students often do not discern that their teacher educator is mirroring optimal teaching practice (Lunenberg et al. 2007, p. 590).
He defined it as "development of abilities to uncover issues, to study and think alone, reach judgments independently and to act and solve problems well".
Education should be literally a drawing-out of this self-power, a development of abilities through activity in the physical field by encouraging manual work and exercises, in the moral field by stimulating the habit of moral actions, and in the intellectual field by eliciting the correct use of the senses in observing concrete things accurately and making judgments upon them.
It has been surmised that Problem Based Learning nursing programs facilitate the development of abilities to become self directed in learning.
Helfat and Peteraf (2003) observed the importance of previous experience during the development of abilities in order to create competitive advantage for the business.
However, qualitative data demonstrate a need to focus more on the development of abilities related to life-long learning and critical thinking.
In real life situations, the theoretical aspects are better assimilated when combined with training oriented towards development of abilities for a positive interaction with clients, especially the managerial and soft skills.
On his account, our abilities to imagine morally relevant situations and alternatives aids in our moral understanding, and our moral education consists at least partly in the development of abilities to imaginatively apply moral concepts to events in our everyday lives.
The findings of the study show that the children in the experimental group had more improvement than did their peers in the control condition, supporting the assertion that PIAFEx may promote greater development of abilities than the regular curriculum in the control group.
As not all students achieved the learning goal to apply research-methodological concepts and procedures, there is a necessity for a stronger focus on teaching activities in order to inspire learning processes which support the development of abilities to master application tasks.
