This study focused on investigating the relationship between thinking styles and learning approaches. Two samples of Nigerian university students, one from Federal University of Port-Harcourt (FUPH) and the other from Federal University of Jos (FUJO), participated in the study. …
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The study has addressed the following research question: "What are the perceptions, attitudes, and values of the various stakeholders, both Arabs and Jews, regarding what they consider to be the root causes of the Bagrut test score gap between Arab students in Israel and their J…
High School Percentage (HSP) and the General Aptitude Test (GAT) scores are two admission criteria that are currently widely used by all post secondary institutions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to select their applicants. Given their widespread use, it is important that the va…
Sport specific tests play an important role for improving athletic performance. However, fencing does not have a sport specific test for assessing physiological responses that can provide information on training or detraining responses. Such tests need to be developed. The purpo…
Maximizing national productivity through nurturing individual growth is a primary concern of developing nations like Malaysia. One corollary of this concern is the need to detect failing and 'at risk' pupils so that correct and timely intervention can be given to them. The prima…
The two major testing tools for oral proficiency assessment in Russian are the OPI (Oral Proficiency Interview) and the SOPI (Simulated Oral Proficiency Interview). SOPI was developed as an equivalent to the OPI to be used in situations when it is impossible or impractical to us…
The purpose of this study was to explore the validity of the victim and aggressor scales of the School Violence Inventory using a multidimensional Rasch analysis approach. The sample was drawn from a four-year national study of 7676 secondary students in Israel and this project …
There are three main research goals of this study. The first one is to examine the level of technology integration into teaching by Saudi university faculty members. The second goal of this study is to investigate Saudi university faculty members’ perceptions of educational tech…
This study presents a conceptual and evidentiary study pertaining to the micro and macro level factors influencing the achievement gap among migrant children from a cross-national standpoint. First, this study provides the most systematic investigation of the immigrant education…
Satisfaction and motivation of employees is a subject that has been the object of study among organizations and administration. With the increasing competitiveness of the market, it is therefore necessary for employers to explore various aspects that can ultimately increase prof…
An exploration into teachers’ understandings and operationalization of Academic Language and Explicit Reading Comprehension Strategy Instruction for secondary English learners. It has been established that language is at the heart of teaching and learning (Dicerbo et al., 2014),…
Educational testing has a long and complicated history in the United States. Currently, state- and district-level assessment systems shape the educational process in a number of ways, from curricular design to teacher evaluation to funding allocation (Au, 2007, 2011; Condie, Lef…
The main goal of this study was to investigate differential item functioning by gender in the Fundamental Mathematics (FMS) and Mathematics subtests (MS) of the MSPC-2018 Higher Education Institutions Examination. Each test consists of 40 items and for both subtests random sampl…
This study examined the relationship between teacher efficacy and professional development among in-service K-12 teachers. A content-rich teacher professional development program was analyzed over the course of two years using a sequential explanatory mixed-methods approach. Fir…
Pre-adolescent and early adolescent northern Nigeria almajiri boys lack both the completion of primary school and vocational skill. Previous research has focused primarily on the experience of the almajiri boys. Nevertheless, there is a dearth of educational research on the expe…
This study reports an investigation of the concerns and professional development needs involved in adopting inclusive education and expressed by elementary school teachers in Saudi Arabia. The goal was to provide baseline information for the department of Planning and Developmen…
Driven by the critical period hypothesis (CPH), Kachru’s (1985) World Englishes paradigm, and Krashen’s (1982) theory of second language acquisition (SLA), this study examined instructors and learners’ attitudes toward English as an International Language (EIL) speaking instruct…
English for Specific Purposes (ESP) classes address the specific professional and technical fields of students learning English and attempt to use appropriate materials and approaches to do so. At the King Abdulaziz Military Academy (KAMA) in Saudi Arabia, ESP classes prepare st…
Canada is a multicultural country, and its classrooms and teachers reflect this reality. However, many immigrant teachers struggle when adjusting to Canada’s cultural and pedagogical environment. This is especially true of Nigerian-trained teachers in Southwestern Ontario’s seco…