How can teachers foster learning environments that promote creative thinking and problem solving skills in students? What types of methods, instructions, interactions, communications, and climate do these teachers need so they may promote creative thinking in students? Moreover,…
The purpose of this study was to describe the factors that helped to increase the academic success of 13 low-track Hispanic students who attended a local community college. The participants graduated from a nearby high school within the service district of the community college …
The importance of the self-concept has stemmed from the belief that the way individuals view themselves has an effect on all aspects of their life. Historically, the self-concept has been considered from a unidimensional or global perspective. Recent developments in self-concept…
This study's purpose was to investigate the quality of education in the two-year medium technical institutes in the Arab Republic of Egypt. The project's problem is that these institutes provide manpower that lacks the right skills for the labor market's demands. This study was …
This study investigated and evaluated the quality and effectiveness of Web-based instruction compared to that of traditional instruction in meeting learning outcomes. Differences in attitudes and perceptions of students toward online and traditional instruction were investigated…
A foraging guild of birds, composed of ring-billed gulls (Larus delawarensis), herring gulls (L. argentatus), great black-backed gulls(L. marinus), American crows ( Corvus brachyrhynchos), fish crows (C. ossifragus), European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris), turkey vultures ( Catha…
If one of the roles of the education system is to prepare citizens to become productive members of society, then it is clear that new methods are required to better prepare students for today's information society. One such potential method is through education based on the indi…
Statement of the problem. The primary purpose of this study was to investigate whether a system of junior colleges would be perceived by students, teachers, and administrators in the city of Makkah as being beneficial to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Procedure. The study was also…
At the present time, junior colleges do not have technical programs that would provide trained Saudis to assume responsibility in technical and middle management fields. The purpose of this study was to establish the degree of interest for new technical instructional programs at…
Bu araştırmanın amacı, okul öncesi eğitimdeki öğretmen adaylarının epistemolojik inançları ile matematik öğretimi, öğrenimi ve inançları arasındaki ilişkiyi belirlemektir. Bu temel amaç doğrultusunda okul öncesi öğretmen adaylarının epistemolojik inançları ile matematik öğretimi…
Problem. The large number of Malaysian students studying overseas indicates that there is a paucity of extant institutions of higher learning in Malaysia to cater to the increasing number of secondary school graduates. It was therefore the purpose of this study to develop a mode…
The purpose of this study was to determine if the attitudes of worldmindedness and tolerance for out-groups were influenced positively by study abroad. The influence and significance of other selected variables were also studied in relation to study abroad by community college s…
Although the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) survived for nearly a decade, its future is far from secure. Among the most immediate and pressing of the U.A.E.'s problems are those of manpower and trained personnel in technical and middle management. The purpose of this study was to…
The educational system in the Yemen Arab Republic (YAR) is in desperate need of reform to accommodate recent changes in the structure of the economy and society of the YAR. At present, there is only one university, the University of Sana'a, within the country. In this study, the…
In post-secondary education, no formal pedagogical education of teachers has generally been required. However, there are many institutions which have introduced evaluation of instruction and offered staff development programs for their teachers. The purpose of this study was to …
The purpose of this study was to examine the interpretive processes of administrators and staff at individual community colleges in the North Carolina system. The study examines how developmental education policy, established at the state level, is interpreted and applied at the…