Recent research has revealed that a school’s principal is a vital component in delivering quality education to the school’s students. With that in mind, it seems productive to examine effective principals and what they perceive as shaping their effectiveness. Recognizing that ef…
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Since the mid-1980s, there has been a significant decline of umu okorobia (males) completing high school education in Igbo society, one of the three major ethnic groups in Nigeria. The purpose of this study was to examine societal factors that influence umu okorobia to dropout o…
This study investigates the effectiveness of metacognitive strategies on reading comprehension and comprehension strategies of 11th-grade male students in Kuwaiti high schools in the subject of Arabic language. This study concentrates on two metacognitive strategies (the K-W-L P…
School climate research indicates that teachers' motivation and students' achievement are related to the interpersonal atmosphere of the schools where they teach and learn. One important factor that impacts school climate is principal leadership style. This study examined how te…
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether Jordanian high school students' knowledge of computers and their attitudes toward them vary with regard to their educational level and gender, as well as to investigate the difference between Jordanian high school students' kn…
The present investigation was an exploratory study designed to assess the spiritual needs of Jewish adolescents. Their spiritual beliefs, experiences, interest in developing spiritually, and factors which facilitate and interfere with spirituality were evaluated. A survey was co…
There is an emerging phenomenon of international teachers teaching in the US public schools. This study intended to understand this phenomenon. In this research, six math and science teachers from India, Nigeria, Turkey, and China were interviewed. Their classrooms were also obs…
This study examines the appropriateness of animations and games as attractive motivators to encourage high school (HS) students and teachers to apply math and science concepts to interactive software development. To identify factors that could motivate participants to learn abou…
In Jordan, top-down calls for education reform increasingly intersect with national and transnational discourses and debates on enhancing economic growth, national unity, gender equality, and civic participation in Jordan and the broader Middle East. Such initiatives have increa…
This study investigated the introduction of computers into the Iranian educational system, the rationale for introducing the Computer Studies course, and most importantly, the implementation process. The first main focus of the study was to identify the factors and conditions th…
This study examined whether the Turkish high school social sciences major students would feel adequate and fit in a technology-enhanced educational environment, particularly in history classrooms. To this extent, this study investigated high school students' level of proficiency…
This quantitative investigation focused on women high school principals at Jewish secular schools throughout Israel. Despite challenges, Israeli women have succeeded in obtaining over half of the principal positions at Jewish secular high schools, but the degree to which there i…
English language mastery is important to the academic achievement of high school students in Nigeria. As the official language of instruction in multi linguistic Nigerian schools, proficiency in English language is essential for the academic success of students in high schools. …
This dissertation examines the relationships between three specific types of places, including high schools, on-premise alcohol outlets, and Turkish coffeehouses, and crime on Turkish streetblocks. Its theoretical framework is grounded in an environmental criminology approach. R…
Over the last 15 years, approximately 12,000 Somali immigrants and refugees have settled in the capital region of Ottawa-Carleton. According to a study of Somali youth (Ali, 1995), about seventy percent (70%) of the Somalis in Ottawa-Carleton are between 1 and 17 years old. The …
It is impossible to separate gender issues in the Chinese context from its political, historical, and cultural as well as language environment. The infamous oppression of women, such as polygamy and footbinding before the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949 …
School funding in the State of New Jersey has a long history of judicial and legislative reform efforts. In 2008, a weighted and adjusted formula was approved to determine how much state aid each district would receive on an annual basis. Recent changes to state aid have undersc…
The primary concern of this study was to examine if there are significant difference in teachers' perceptions and students' attitudes toward technology integrated into the science classroom based on their school group and grade level. In addition, this study also examined studen…
This dissertation integrates the relevant parts of Isaiah, Kings II, Chronicles II, Jeremiah, Lamentations, and, to a lesser extent, the Minor Prophets and Ezekiel into a full year curriculum whose subject is the Last Judaean Kings, for use in Jewish high schools in North Americ…