Many educators and higher education administrators believe that leadership skills are a desired outcome of the undergraduate experience (Astin & Astin, 2000; Lucas, 1994; Shertzer & Schuh, 2004). While the importance of leadership development in higher education is well supporte…
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Problem. Decision making is a practical day-to-day phenomenon. It manifests itself in various ways, such as choosing what to do or not to do, in evaluating and fulfilling what is now and what is expected. Decision making is a cycle covering the time from when a decision is conce…
The study was designed to assess the perceptions of faculty members, policy-makers, and female students concerning two models of universities for women—an independent university and an open university—and their effects on meeting women's needs for higher education in Saudi Arabi…
The purpose of this study was to examine the experiences and adjustment challenges of Saudi Arabian students in the California State University (CSU) system. Specifically, the study was conducted to better understand and serve the Saudi Arabian students studying in the system. T…
This study explores how Muslim parents in the Greater Toronto Area are engaged in their children's education and the challenges they face in trying to engage with the public school system. The public schools in Ontario are secular by law and free from any religious affiliation. …
This research study examines the perceived impact of teacher induction programs on public high school novice and beginning career-change teachers. This study seeks to explore the differences in perceptions of public high school novice teachers versus public high school beginning…
The purpose of this study was focused on the various perceived impacts created by the expansion to a four-tier teacher performance evaluation rating model which would inform educational leaders in the State of Illinois. By studying the experiences of principals in two other stat…
Instructional leadership has been a substantial focus of school improvement research over the last thirty years. The literature on effective schools has associated effective school leaders with those who spend a considerable proportion of their time dealing with instructional an…
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, KSA, has invested ample resources to boost and enhance the environment and the outcome of its educational system. Using AlGodorat and AlTahsili, standardized tests used to evaluate students' knowledge and skills, as a measurement to find discrepancie…
There is an understandable concern among practitioners of education, academic analysts, policy formulators, and curriculum designers that a large number of government officials have both neglected and ignored the salient topic of the changing demographics of Nigeria and of Delta…
This study examined whether the theory of deliberate practice could be applied and expanded to the field of education to explain how school leaders successfully work with teachers to improve student achievement in schools with a high percentage of student identified as minority …
The implications of educational and language policies in Sudan and developing nations in general make this study relevant and important. The researcher investigated the potential effect on Sudanese institutions of higher education of a government scheme to change the language of…
The blended learning (BL) approach provides an efficient and effective instructional experience. However, adopting BL poses some challenge to faculty; the most important obstacle found in this research is faculty's lack of knowledge regarding the use of technology in their teach…
This is an ethnographic study that examines differences between the traditional Muslim approaches to learning and the approach reflected in the study circle. It also examines and explores the extent to which collaborative learning principles and methods are used and possible sho…
Individuals learning a second language improve their cultural and social communications when coupling language skills with cultural awareness of a target area. Comprehensive foreign language structures combined with culture, traditions, and target-area experiences are contributi…
Effective strategies and techniques for reform improvement require an understanding of the forces of the change process that facilitate its implementation. The involvement of classroom teachers in the process of formulating changes surface factors that influence reform's effecti…
The purpose of this study was to determine through available documents and select interviews: (1) The challenges that Catholic youth in today's society experience in living their Catholic Faith; (2) How well the Catholic schools are meeting these challenges; (3) What needs to be…