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…
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This study is a critical analysis of the concept and understanding of traditional education among the Igbo people of Nigeria. It explores the strengths and benefits, as well as the limitations of Igbo traditional education and examines its foundations, methods, contexts, tools, …
Scholastic Assessment Tests (SATs) are used to determine if a student is ready to assume the responsibility of academic achievement in college. These tests have been charged with reflecting the values of the test makers; nevertheless, they are still used as major markers for inc…
The purpose of this study was to examine social studies teachers' perceptions about social studies goals and content areas that should constitute the social studies curricula of grades five to 10 in Oman. This national study involved a population of 538 social studies teachers i…
This study took place in three high schools in rural Northern Pakistan. The participants comprised four experienced high school teachers, three men and one woman. Using predetermined criteria, I had identified them as “improvement-oriented teachers” (IOTs), more ready and determ…
The purpose of the study is to examine art education in boys' middle schools in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. The study specifically investigated characteristics of art education teachers, teaching methods and guidelines, school attitudes toward art education, evaluation,…
This study investigated the effects the use of cooperative learning method in English as a second language reading comprehension performance and how it improves the students' second language, their attitudes toward cooperative learning, and their motivation toward reading. Sixty…
This study examined the challenges associated with the explicit delivery of question-generation strategy with 8 Arab Canadian students from the perspective of a bilingual beginning teacher. This study took place in a private school and involved 2 stages consisting of 9 instructi…
<?Pub Inc> The research described in this study is a quantitative study conducted in Saudi Arabia with the participation of female faculty members teaching in five teacher colleges in Saudi Arabia. The study utilized survey and content analysis in order to achieve the objectives…
As the world is clearly facing a challenge of transition; an unprecedented state of interconnectedness, talking about foreign languages and cultures has been an interesting, but sometimes controversial, topic across college campuses. However, the concept of foreign cultures repr…
The purpose of this study is to investigate parental expectations of Nigerian voluntary immigrants to the United States for their children's education. Immigrant or voluntary minorities are people who have migrated essentially of their own volition to the United States or any ot…
The primary purpose of this study was to investigate kindergarten teachers' attitudes toward two instructional models based on two criteria: (1) the classroom social behavior of their kindergarten students, and (2) teacher demographics. In this study, and from a classroom perspe…
The Muslim community in Nashville established an Islamic school in 1996. The current school can accommodate students from kindergarten to sixth grade. The Kurds, numbering more than 10,000, started their own quest to establish a full-time Islamic school in 2006. Reviewing the li…
To improve K-12 students' images of the nature of science (NOS) through science textbooks, two issues must be addressed: (a) the level of NOS that ought to be included in science textbooks and (b) the treatment of this level in those textbooks. Science educators achieved a conse…
This thesis is a historical review of Indonesia's curriculum and practice as seen through the works of Kartini (1878-1904) and Ki Hadjar Dewantara (1889-1959), whose ideas colored and influenced the development of Indonesia's educational system. Although Kartini and Ki Hadjar ar…
This inquiry is a comparison of the historical content of the Vietnam War in the Vietnamese and the California high school history textbooks. Focusing on the selective images and the textual content with regard to the Vietnam Way from 1954-1975 in both textbooks in both countrie…
This thesis documents a quasi-comparative study of the educational systems of Japan, England, and Iran from three perspectives: how is the curriculum formed and controlled; what is the structure of schools and the curriculum; and what is the structure of teacher education. I use…
Philosophers and others have debated for centuries about the concept of "rights" - what they are, where they came from, how they evolved, on what authority they proceed, and in what formulations. Because rights express values and are not simply rules governing an immutable statu…
The purpose of this study was to examine the current availability of Arabic young adult literature trade books and to systematically analyze Arabic young adult literature trade books in terms of their cultural authenticity. By analyzing the contents of the trade books through th…