This case study investigated the process of adopting and integrating interactive whiteboards into the daily practice of teachers and compared the findings to relevant theoretical models. Participants were drawn from a small international school in Damascus, Syria, where interact…
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This study was designed to assess public elementary principals' perceptions of the benefits and drawbacks to their School Improvement Plan Process and resulting School Improvement Plan Document. The findings for this qualitative study were gathered from results of the School Imp…
Education is confronting some unprecedented challenges today like the issues of social justice, equity, ethics, fairness, and diversity in the backdrop of binaries of mind, body and soul. Spiritually driven educational leadership is one of the responses to the present situation …
This research study investigated the leadership practices of primary and secondary schools leaders in Nigeria. In investigating the leadership practices of primary and secondary schools leaders in Nigeria, the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) instrument (LPI-Self and LPI-Obs…
School effectiveness has been tied in research to a wide range of factors, such as Socio-Economic Status, teacher preparation, quality of instructional materials, funding, etc. Certain elements of the school such as climate, structure, interpersonal relationships have also been …
Preschools in Saudi Arabia have been around and continuously growing and improving for more than 40 years. These programs, however, still collectively suffer from the lack of utilization of classroom assessments to support learning and help teachers make decisions about curricul…
This dissertation is a hermeneutic phenomenological study of synagogue-school teachers of Jewish sacred text. The phenomenological question that orients this study asks, What is the lived experience of teaching sacred text in a Conservative synagogue-school? This study takes pla…
The purpose of this study was to understand why qualified American and Canadian educators left their home country to teach overseas and more specifically, why they decided to live and work in Kuwait. Fifty-one participants took part in the study. Each was asked to complete a 30 …
Simon (1976) insists "a general theory of administration must include principles of organization that will ensure correct decision-making, just as it must include principles that will ensure effective action" (p. 1). Similarly, Griffiths (1959) writes "the specific function of a…
The purpose of this study was to investigate the perceptions of Illinois superintendents regarding their district's involvement in school partnerships with businesses and organizations in the community and to determine if their perceptions were at all influenced by the types of …
This causal comparative study was designed to compare the mathematical performance of Grade 3 students in Provincial public and Islamic private schools in Ontario. Three hundred and fifty-eight third grade students' EQAO (Education Quality and Accountability Office) mathematics …
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…
This research study examines the commonalities among school principals and their role as instructional leaders, their training as school administrators, and their work experience in schools with high concentration of language minority students of Hispanic descent. Ethnography an…
The purpose of this study was to focus an empirical investigation of the effects of the accelerated schools model on at-risk students in schools that have adopted the model, compared to schools not using the model. The study examined whether at-risk students in accelerated schoo…
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the impact of 2 recent legal events, specifically the Fair Access to Regulated Professions Act (2006) and Siadat v. Ontario College of Teachers (2007) decision, with regards to the opportunity of foreign trained teachers to practice their…
Teacher turnover in international schools creates difficulties in hiring, raises viability questions about the schools, and has large financial implications. The research on teacher satisfaction and dissatisfaction is substantial, but the population of American school teachers w…
Change is constant in organizations. Turnover, particularly at the administrative level is a concern to the educational profession. Saudi Arabian International Schools-Dhahran District (SAIS-DD) experiences significant leadership turnover. The purpose of this study is to examine…
This study examines the reform undertaken by Israel's higher education system in the 1990's in an attempt to provide its disadvantaged population with equal access to higher education. Sephardic Jews of African-Asian origin had been Israel's disadvantaged population, lagging beh…