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Educational assessment in Lebanon

Vlaardingerbroek B.; Shehab S.S. (, 2012)

The Lebanese government education system is based on the French, but private education historically has a high profile at both the school and tertiary levels where an American influence is profound. The mid-secondary Brevet ...
EPISTEMOLOGICAL BELIEFS IN SCIENCE: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF LEBANESE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' EPISTEMOLOGIES

Rizk N.; Jaber L.; Halwany S.; BouJaoude S. (DORDRECHTVAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS, 2012)

Beliefs about the nature of knowledge and knowing have been investigated extensively in educational and developmental psychology research. Hofer's framework on personal epistemology is adopted in the present study for ...
Equity in quality mathematics education: A global perspective

Jurdak M. (Springer Netherlands; DORDRECHTPO BOX 17, 3300 AA DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS, 2011)

Inequities in mathematics education at the global level are likely to filter into the national system and eventually into the classroom because of the hierarchical nested nature of the global mathematics education system. ...
Erratum: Upper secondary school physical science curricula in New Zealand after the national qualifications framework reforms (International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education (2007) 5 (263-280))

Vlaardingerbroek B.; Taylor T.G.N. (, 2007)

[No abstract available]
Explicit Nature of Science and Argumentation Instruction in the Context of Socioscientific Issues: An effect on student learning and transfer

Khishfe R. (ABINGDON4 PARK SQUARE, MILTON PARK, ABINGDON OX14 4RN, OXFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND, 2014)

The purpose of the study was two-fold: to (a) investigate the influence of explicit nature of science (NOS) and explicit argumentation instruction in the context of a socioscientific issue on the argumentation skills and ...
Facing the challenges of educational reform in the Arab world

Karami Akkary R. (Kluwer Academic Publishers;, 2014)

This paper pinpoints and discusses key aspects of the current approaches to school reform in the Arab world against the backdrop of what is accepted as the best practice in the international literature on effective school ...
Factors influencing the decision to enroll in an engineering PhD program

Baytiyeh H.; Naja M.K. (, 2011)

This research investigates the contributing factors for considering enrollment in engineering doctoral programs by offering responses' analysis of two groups; the first consists of 274 graduate students enrolled in various ...
Gender responses to psychological distress among Palestinians: Risk and protective factors

Khamis V. (John Wiley and Sons Ltd.; HOBOKEN111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN 07030-5774, NJ USA, 2014)

This study investigated the extent to which differences in the presence of trauma, political and normative stressors, resources, coping, and hardiness could account for variation in gender responses to psychological distress ...
Getting into Varsity: Comparability, Convergence and Congruence

Vlaardingerbroek, Barend; Taylor, Neil (Cambria Press, )
Gifted Education in Lebanese Schools: Integrating Theory, Research, and Practice

Al-Hroub, Anies; El Khoury, Sara (Springer, )

This brief discusses research about gifted education in Lebanese schools, providing an overview of the latest theories, definitions, and practices used to identify gifted students in Lebanese schools. Chapters begin by ...
Higher Education in the Arab States

Bashshur, Munir (UNESCO, )
Identifying the challenging factors in the transition from colleges of engineering to employment

Baytiyeh H.; Naja M. (, 2012)

The transition from university to a career in engineering is a challenging process. This study examined the perceptions of engineering graduates regarding the difficulties they encountered in their transition from the ...
Imagining the textbook: Textbooks as discourse and genre

Klerides E. (, 2010)

This article examines textbooks, especially history textbooks, seeking to contribute to an emerging body of scholarship that endeavors to understand the nature, specific properties, and characteristics of this medium. Using ...
Impact of college learning on engineering career practice

Baytiyeh H.; Naja M.K. (, 2010)

Traditionally, engineering profession appears to be a technical field based on scientific discipline. However, the way engineering has been taught will not anymore create the innovative professionals that meet the standards ...
Impact of war, religiosity and ideology on PTSD and psychiatric disorders in adolescents from Gaza Strip and South Lebanon

Khamis V. (OXFORDTHE BOULEVARD, LANGFORD LANE, KIDLINGTON, OXFORD OX5 1GB, ENGLAND, 2012)

This study investigated the extent to which differences in the types of war trauma, economic pressure, religiosity and ideology accounted for variation in PTSD and psychiatric disorders among adolescents from Gaza Strip ...
Implementation of the Social Decision-Making Skills Curriculum on primary students (Grades 1-3) in Lebanon

Hassan K.E.; Mouganie Z. (SAGE Publications Ltd; LONDON1 OLIVERS YARD, 55 CITY ROAD, LONDON EC1Y 1SP, ENGLAND, 2014)

This study investigated the effect of the Social Decision-Making Skills Curriculum (SDSC) on the emotional intelligence and the prosocial behaviors of primary students in Grades 1-3, in a private school in Lebanon. Students ...
Influence of teachers' conceptions of the nature of science on classroom practice

Sarieddine D.; BouJaoude S. (EURASIA;, 2014)

Whether teachers' conceptions of NOS are reflected in their instructional planning and classroom practice remains an important research question. Consequently, this study investigated teachers' NOS views and their relationship ...
Inquiry in science education: International perspectives

Abd-El-Khalick F.; Boujaoude S.; Duschl R.; Lederman N.G.; Mamlok-Naaman R.; Hofstein A.; Niaz M.; Treagust D.; Tuan H.-L. (HOBOKEN111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN, NJ 07030 USA, 2004)

This paper set emerged from an international symposium that aimed to shed light on issues associated with the enactment of inquiry both as means (i.e., inquiry as an instructional approach) and as ends (i.e., inquiry as a ...
Integrating Physics and Math Through Microcomputer-Based Laboratories (MBL): Effects on Discourse Type, Quality, and Mathematization

BouJaoude S.B.; Jurdak M.E. (DORDRECHTVAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS, 2010)

The purposes of this study were to understand the nature of discourse in terms of knowledge types and cognitive process, source of utterances (student or teacher), and time use in microcomputer-based labs (MBL) and ...
Internet contribution to the engineering students' learning

Baytiyeh H. (Tempus Publications; DURRUS, BANTRYIJEE , ROSSMORE,, DURRUS, BANTRY, COUNTY CORK 00000, IRELAND, 2014)

Nowadays, the internet represents an essential tool that enables students to not only communicate but also access vast amount of information on a broad range of topics. This study investigates the impact of internet use ...

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