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Hare Landa, Melissa; Odòna-Holm, Jocelyn; Shi, Lijuan – Teacher Educator, 2017
As the demographics of the United States continue to shift, American classrooms reflect the richness of cultural diversity and the vibrancy of immigrant populations. Education abroad programs provide opportunities for preservice teachers to develop their cultural competence, required for effectively teaching children from a range of cultural…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Immersion Programs, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Awareness
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Katz, Sara – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2015
There is no defined theory for teaching Qualitative Inquiry, and very few studies have focused on the topic. This study is a qualitative case study focused on the Qualitative Methods course that I teach at a college of education in Israel. The aim of the study is to explore and describe the course, to provide a true picture of my pedagogy, and to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Case Studies, Foreign Countries, Data Collection
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Boutnaru, Shlomi; Hershkovitz, Arnon – Interdisciplinary Journal of e-Skills and Lifelong Learning, 2015
In recent years, schools (as well as universities) have added cyber security to their computer science curricula. This topic is still new for most of the current teachers, who would normally have a standard computer science background. Therefore the teachers are trained and then teaching their students what they have just learned. In order to…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer Security, Programming Languages, Computer Science Education
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Hauptman, Arthur M. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2013
This article seeks to make sense of the seeming contradiction that the number of degrees awarded annually and the attainment rate of the adult population in the US have both grown, even as the country has fallen behind many global competitors on the latter indicator. Two reports issued in 2012---one by the Pew Research Center, the other by the…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Academic Degrees, Demography, Postsecondary Education
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Toplak, Maggie E.; Sorge, Geoff B.; Flora, David B.; Chen, Wai; Banaschewski, Tobias; Buitelaar, Jan; Ebstein, Richard; Eisenberg, Jacques; Franke, Barbara; Gill, Michael; Miranda, Ana; Oades, Robert D.; Roeyers, Herbert; Rothenberger, Aribert; Sergeant, Joseph; Sonuga-Barke, Edmund; Steinhausen, Hans-Christoph; Thompson, Margaret; Tannock, Rosemary; Asherson, Philip; Faraone, Stephen V. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2012
Objective: To examine the factor structure of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in a clinical sample of 1,373 children and adolescents with ADHD and their 1,772 unselected siblings recruited from different countries across a large age range. Hierarchical and correlated factor analytic models were compared separately in the ADHD and…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Siblings, Factor Structure, Adolescents
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Ben Itzchak, Esther; Lahat, Eli; Zachor, Ditza A. – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
Objectives: (1) To assess the distribution of parental age and birth weight in a large cohort with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and to compare them to Israeli national data. (2) To examine possible relationships between these risk factors and functioning. Methods: The study included 529 participants diagnosed with ASD using standardized tests:…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Autism, Standardized Tests, Pregnancy
Hershkovitz, Arnon; Nachmias, Rafi – International Working Group on Educational Data Mining, 2009
The purpose of this study is to investigate the consistency of students' behavior regarding their pace of actions over sessions within an online course. Pace in a session is defined as the number of logged actions divided by session length (in minutes). Log files of 6,112 students were collected, and datasets were constructed for examining pace…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychometrics, Comparative Analysis, Correlation
Barnes, Tiffany, Ed.; Desmarais, Michel, Ed.; Romero, Cristobal, Ed.; Ventura, Sebastian, Ed. – International Working Group on Educational Data Mining, 2009
The Second International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM2009) was held at the University of Cordoba, Spain, on July 1-3, 2009. EDM brings together researchers from computer science, education, psychology, psychometrics, and statistics to analyze large data sets to answer educational research questions. The increase in instrumented…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Educational Research, Conferences (Gatherings), Foreign Countries
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Koslowsky, Meni – Social Behavior and Personality, 1988
Notes that researchers are often required to examine specific model under two different situations. Cites studies in which authors compared results descriptively without use of inferential statistics. Describes use of series of regression tests to compare two situations statistically. Gives example from recent study to illustrate technique.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Foreign Countries
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Mannheim, Bilha – Sociology of Work and Occupations, 1975
The study develops and measures a concept of Work-Role Centrality, mainly from a cognitive perspective, and examines by means of questionnaire data its distribution in a representative sample of 778 males participating in the labor force in Israel. (Author)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data Collection, Factor Analysis, Foreign Countries
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Gati, Itamar – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1982
Tested models of interests by examining the significance of disconfirmed ordinal predictions. Examined data regarding Holland's hexagonal model and Roe's circular ordering. Tested adequacy of the hierarchical model and compared significance of the disconfirmed predictions of the hierachical model to that of the hexagonal-circular model. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis, Foreign Countries
National Center for Health Statistics (DHEW/PHS), Hyattsville, MD. – 1980
The booklet presents a report on the operation and use of person numbering (PN) systems for vital and health statistics in Israel and Scandinavia. A PN system involves assigning a different number to each individual within a given society and using that number for commercial, governmental, and military identification. The purpose of the report is…
Descriptors: Classification, Comparative Analysis, Government Role, Health Services
Peiser, Carlos; Nevo, Baruch – Educational Technology, 1983
A study conducted at the Universities of Haifa and Tel-Aviv to compare two approaches to constructing general multiple choice ability tests--the "classic distractor" test and a new technique, the "fixed-distractor" format test--found a strong similarity between the scores on the two general information ability tests. Seven…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, College Entrance Examinations
Kohn, David, Ed. – 1980
Statistical data on universities in Israel for 1978-79 are presented. Information is given on student characteristics, recipients of degrees, fields of study, candidates for degrees, the student body of Everyman's University, staff, budgets, and college facilities. Comparative data for previous years are included. (SW)
Descriptors: Administrators, Budgets, College Buildings, College Faculty
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Mevarech, Zemira R. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1993
Describes a study of third-grade students in Israel that examined the differential effects of cooperative and individual computer-assisted instruction on mathematics achievement, amount of invested mental effort, academic recognition, and social acceptance of high and low achieving students. Theoretical and empirical implications are discussed,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Analysis of Variance, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction
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