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Grinberg, Dana; Levin-Asher, Bonnie; Segal, Osnat – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: Differences between child-directed speech (CDS) by women and men are generally explained by either biological-evolutionary or gender-social theories. It is difficult to tease these two explanations apart for different-sex-parent families because women are usually also the main caregivers. Thus, this study aims to examine the influence of…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Speech Communication, Gender Differences, Parent Child Relationship
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Zamir, Sara – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2021
The authority given to teachers within the school setting is vital to any educational work. According to its most widely accepted meaning, this concept signifies teachers' legal and social right to teach, counsel or guide that derives from a formal recognition of their ability to do so. As a concept, authority in the education system has undergone…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Power Structure, Foreign Countries, Gender Differences
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Nadav, Nechama; Benoliel, Pascale; Shaked, Haim; Schechter, Chen – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2021
This study aims to explore the frequency and extent of principals' use of systems thinking activities in Israel; to examine whether principals' gender and seniority predict their systems thinking activities; and to determine how systems thinking activities are related to school outcomes. Results indicated that principals' seniority predicted their…
Descriptors: Principals, Job Satisfaction, Gender Differences, Prediction
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Klein, Joseph; Landa, Hadas – Teaching Education, 2021
Mathematics teacher training is intended to inculcate teaching skills for success in all learning levels. The aim of this study is to examine the questions: Which factors contribute to the successful assignment of teachers to learning levels? Can teachers teach all levels or only some? The findings should help to clarify which factors to consider…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Teacher Placement, Teacher Qualifications, Teacher Characteristics
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Gindi, Shahar; Kohan-Mass, Judith; Pilpel, Avital – Roeper Review, 2019
This study challenges an existing controversy, whether there are innate differences in competitiveness between boys and girls in general, and among the gifted in particular, or whether competitiveness is context-sensitive. The specific context examined in the study is that of two pullout weekly enrichment gifted programs: one with single-sex…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Competition, Academically Gifted, Single Sex Classes
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Pinson, Halleli; Feniger, Yariv; Barak, Yael – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2020
In the past three decades in high-income countries, female students have outperformed male students in most indicators of educational attainment. However, the underrepresentation of girls and women in science courses and careers, especially in physics, computer sciences, and engineering, remains persistent. What is often neglected by the vast…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Semitic Languages, Gender Differences
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Asli, Sare; Kortam, Naji; Algamal, Shafea; Sheme, Najwa; Hugerat, Muhamad – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2021
This study examined Arab high-school students' decision-making ability (their cognitive level) regarding a sea turtle conservation issue in relation to three independent variables: the proximity of their residence to the sea, the type of residence (city or village), and their gender. The study population consisted of tenth-grade students in high…
Descriptors: Arabs, High School Students, Decision Making, Animals
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Elyakim, Nitzan; Reychav, Iris; Offir, Baruch; McHaney, Roger – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2019
The current study demonstrates how blended learning using location-based mobile-learning experiences can be improved when student preparation is enhanced with techniques informed by the theory of Mediated Learning Experience (MLE). Our experiment used a sample of 216 junior-high students within the context of school field trips. Tablet computers…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Handheld Devices, Junior High School Students, Field Trips
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Vaknin-Nusbaum, Vered; Nevo, Einat; Brande, Sigalit; Gambrell, Linda – Reading Psychology, 2020
Motivational questionnaires (MRP-R and MWP) were used to investigate reading and writing motivation (self-concept and value) among 252 Hebrew-speaking students in third to sixth grade. CFA for reading and writing motivation revealed a close to reasonable fit, for the total sample and by gender. It yielded a low fit across the four grade levels.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Reading Motivation, Writing Attitudes
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Klemer, Anat; Rapoport, Shirley – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2020
This article describes the beneficial effects of an intervention program, based on the computerized Origametria program and the GeoGebra environment, for acquiring geometric concepts in the second grade. Eighty-eight second-graders, from both Hebrew-speaking and Arabic-speaking schools, were instructed in groups by eighteen Hebrew and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Intervention
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Avargil, Shirly; Kohen, Zehavit; Dori, Yehudit Judy – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2020
In many countries, the choice of a STEM career, especially in chemistry, is decreasing. A shortage of appropriately skilled workers can become a threat to any country's future achievements. Our research strives to understand behavioral trends and career choice factors related to personal and environmental themes. Building on the foundations of the…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Chemistry, Majors (Students), Career Choice
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Kohan-Mass, Judith; Dakwar, Basheer; Dadush, Varda – Gifted Education International, 2018
Despite the global decline in the number of girls who study science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) subjects, in Israel, gender differences of physics students are especially worrying. Although girls and boys in junior high school reach similar achievements in physics, the number of girls who study physics in high school is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Arabs, STEM Education, Gender Differences
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Weinberger, Maor; Zhitomirsky-Geffet, Maayan; Bouhnik, Dan – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2017
Introduction: In this exploratory study, we proposed an experimental framework to investigate and model male/female differences in attitudes towards online privacy and anonymity among Israeli students. Our aim was to comparatively model men and women's online privacy attitudes, and to assess the online privacy gender gap. Method: Various factors…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Gender Differences, Student Attitudes
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Evers, Arne; McCormick, Carina M.; Hawley, Leslie R.; Muñiz, José; Balboni, Giulia; Bartram, Dave; Boben, Dusica; Egeland, Jens; El-Hassan, Karma; Fernández-Hermida, José R.; Fine, Saul; Frans, Örjan; Gintiliené, Grazina; Hagemeister, Carmen; Halama, Peter; Iliescu, Dragos; Jaworowska, Aleksandra; Jiménez, Paul; Manthouli, Marina; Matesic, Krunoslav; Michaelsen, Lars; Mogaji, Andrew; Morley-Kirk, James; Rózsa, Sándor; Rowlands, Lorraine; Schittekatte, Mark; Sümer, H. Canan; Suwartono, Tono; Urbánek, Tomáš; Wechsler, Solange; Zelenevska, Tamara; Zanev, Svetoslav; Zhang, Jianxin – International Journal of Testing, 2017
On behalf of the International Test Commission and the European Federation of Psychologists' Associations a world-wide survey on the opinions of professional psychologists on testing practices was carried out. The main objective of this study was to collect data for a better understanding of the state of psychological testing worldwide. These data…
Descriptors: Testing, Attitudes, Surveys, Psychologists
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Aram, Dorit; Bergman Deitcher, Deborah; Adar, Gali – Reading Horizons, 2017
Experts in children's literature and child development value complexity in the language, socio-emotional content, and structure of books, yet little is known regarding parents' attitudes towards these aspects. The study thus examined how parents' gender, education, and profession, children's age and gender, and frequency of parent-child reading…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Childrens Literature, Books, Age Differences
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