Browsing Department of Education by Author "Boujaoude, Saouma B."

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An Investigation of Lebanese G7-12 Students’ Misconceptions and Difficulties in Genetics and Their Genetics Literacy

Osman, Enja; Boujaoude, Saouma B.; Hamdan, Hiba (Springer Netherlands, 2017)

Lebanese educators claim that middle and secondary school students exhibit poor understanding of genetics due to misconceptions and difficulties that hinder progression in conceptual understanding of major genetics concepts ...
Analysis of science textbooks as cultural supportive tools: the case of arab countries

Boujaoude, Saouma B.; Noureddine, Razan (Routledge, 2020)

The purpose of this study was to investigate if science textbooks prepare students for the twenty-first-century and if and how science and religion are depicted in science textbooks in Arab countries where religion, ...
Analysis of the Chemical Representations in Secondary Lebanese Chemistry Textbooks

Shehab, Saadeddine Salim; Boujaoude, Saouma B. (Springer Netherlands, 2017)

This study focused on the requirements that chemical representations should meet in textbooks in order to enhance conceptual understanding. Specifically, the purpose of this study was to evaluate the chemical representations ...
Formative interventions for science teachers’ expansive learning and practices with multilingual learners: A case study from Lebanon

Salloum, Sara L.; Boujaoude, Saouma B. (Routledge, 2023)

This paper illustrates utilising cultural historical activity theory (CHAT) and the methodology of formative intervention as a responsive capacity-building framework for enhancing science teachers’ professional development ...
Grade 8 Lebanese students’ reasoning and decision-making about scientific versus socio-scientific issues

Ghazal, Ihsan; Boujaoude, Saouma B.; Hokayem, Hayat (Routledge, 2023)

Learners are expected to discuss and debate, using scientific evidence, the Socio-Scientific Issues (SSI) that often overlap with personal experiences and ethical dilemmas. This study investigated the reasoning of 24 Grade ...
Influence of teachers' conceptions of the nature of science on classroom practice

Sarieddine, Diana; Boujaoude, Saouma B. (Modestum LTD, 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 ...
Language in teaching and learning science in diverse Lebanese multilingual classrooms: interactions and perspectives

Salloum, Sara L.; Boujaoude, Saouma B. (Routledge, 2020)

Science teachers mediate social and academic language in science classrooms through teacher talk and classroom discourse. In multilingual classrooms, ways home and international languages are deployed can affect conceptual ...
LEBANESE STUDENTS’ CONCEPTIONS OF AND ATTITUDES TOWARDS SCIENCE AND RELATED CAREERS BASED ON THEIR GENDER AND RELIGIOUS AFFILIATIONS

Khishfe, Rola; Boujaoude, Saouma B. (Springer Netherlands, 2016)

Students’ attitudes and conceptions seem to be influenced by social/cultural contexts and interactions with other students from diverse backgrounds. Therefore, educators need to study attitudes, conceptions, and career ...
Students’ understandings of nature of science and their arguments in the context of four socio-scientific issues

Khishfe, Rola; Alshaya, Fahad Suliman; Boujaoude, Saouma B.; Mansour, Nasser S.; Alrudiyan, Khalid I. (Routledge, 2017)

The purpose of this study was to examine students understandings about nature of science (NOS) and their arguments in context of controversial socio-scientific issue (SSI). A total of 74 11th graders in six schools in Saudi ...
The Use of Triadic Dialogue in the Science Classroom: a Teacher Negotiating Conceptual Learning with Teaching to the Test

Salloum, Sara L.; Boujaoude, Saouma B. (Springer Netherlands, 2019)

The purpose of this research is to better understand the uses and potential of triadic dialogue (initiation-response-feedback) as a dominant discourse pattern in test-driven environments. We used a Bakhtinian dialogic ...
Understanding Interactions in Multilingual Science Classrooms through Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT): What Do Contradictions Tell Us?

Salloum, Sara L.; Boujaoude, Saouma B. (Springer Science and Business Media B.V., 2021)

Interactions in multilingual science classrooms involve local cognitive and sociocultural dimensions along with global contextual aspects such as language-in-education policies. The intersection of these has implications ...

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