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Wafiq Hibi – Mathematics Teaching Research Journal, 2024
This investigation delves into the numerical comprehension among elementary and middle school students within Israel's Arab sector, challenging the conventional metrics of mathematical ability. Despite the apparent adeptness in standard mathematical tests, a significant discrepancy exists between calculative prowess and genuine numerical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Arabs, Mathematics Skills, Mathematics Tests
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Ulla Lundqvist; Isil Erduyan – Language and Education, 2025
This study inquires how students of Arab heritage in an urban setting in Denmark interpret Islamic literacy artefacts available in their homes, and how these interpretations reflect broader faith literacy practices in the students' diaspora community. Through a linguistic ethnographic study design students have been invited to photograph literacy…
Descriptors: Arabs, Urban Areas, Self Concept, Literacy Education
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Feniger, Yariv – Critical Studies in Education, 2020
This study examines the influence of the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 1999 results on mathematics education policy in Israel. Analyzing various documents, the study shows how these results transformed policymakers' discourse regarding mathematics education. In order to achieve improvement in Israel's ranking, the…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Decision Making, Educational Policy, Achievement Tests
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Razer, Michal; Mittelberg, David; Ayalon, Snait – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2018
Israeli students ranked in the bottom third of the countries surveyed by PISA 2012 in mathematical literacy, while the gap between the highest and lowest scores was the second largest in the OECD. This paper explores which variables led to disparities in mathematical literacy between different socioeconomic levels and between Israeli Arabs and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Achievement Tests, International Assessment
European Training Foundation, 2017
This report provides an overview of key policy developments in education, training, and employment in Israel. The paper contains sections that review the country's key demographic and economic characteristics; education and training trends, challenges, policy, and institutional setting; and labour market and employment trends, challenges, policy,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Achievement Tests, Secondary School Students
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Yemini, Miri; Addi-Raccah, Audrey – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2013
This study examines the nature and extent of extracurricular activities in the Palestinian Arab, Jewish Religious and Jewish Secular educational sectors (Israeli education system also includes the Ultra-Orthodox sector with its own management, monitoring and governance apparatus.) in Israel, in order to characterise the contextual variables that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Extracurricular Activities, Arabs
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Huleihil, Mahmoud; Huleihil, Huriya – Athens Journal of Education, 2016
In this study, we provide a review of the status of science and technology education. It addresses the achievements of students in Israel who attend high schools with student bodies that are primarily Arabic speaking. It is generally recognized that the achievements of the Israeli students in international examinations are relatively low. When…
Descriptors: High Schools, Arabs, Semitic Languages, Low Achievement