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Computer Science Students' Attitudes towards the Use of Structured and Unstructured Discussion Forums in Fully Online Courses
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Tibi, Moanes H. – Online Learning, 2018
This study aims to investigate and analyze the attitudes and opinions of computer science students at two academic colleges of education with regards to the use of structured and unstructured discussion forums in computer science courses conducted entirely online. Fifty-two students participated in two online courses. The students in each course…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Student Attitudes, Comparative Analysis, Computer Science Education
How Teaching Science Using Project-Based Learning Strategies Affects the Classroom Learning Environment
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Hugerat, Muhamad – Learning Environments Research, 2016
This study involved 458 ninth-grade students from two different Arab middle schools in Israel. Half of the students learned science using project-based learning strategies and the other half learned using traditional methods (non-project-based). The classes were heterogeneous regarding their achievements in the sciences. The adapted questionnaire…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Active Learning, Student Projects, Learning Strategies
The Effectiveness of Teachers' Use of Demonstrations for Enhancing Students' Understanding of and Attitudes to Learning the Oxidation-Reduction Concept
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Basheer, Ahmad; Hugerat, Muhamad; Kortam, Naji; Hofstein, Avi – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2017
In this study we explored whether the use of teachers' demonstrations significantly improves students' understanding of redox reactions compared with control group counterparts who were not exposed to the demonstrations. The sample consisted of 131 Israeli 8th graders in middle schools (junior high school). Students' attitudes and achievements as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Arabs, Science Education
The Effect of Written Corrective Feedback on Omani Students' Accuracy in the Use of English Prepositions
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Al Ajmi, Ahmed Ali Saleh – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
A quasi-experimental study was conducted to examine the effectiveness of providing written corrective feedback (WCF) to Arab speakers of English on ten uses of English prepositions. Arab speakers commonly find it difficult to correctly use English prepositions, mainly due to the differences between the two languages (e.g. Ortega, 2009). Examples…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Quasiexperimental Design, English (Second Language), Arabs
Effect of Mobile-Assisted Dialect Awareness Training on the Dialect Attitudes of Prospective English Language Teachers
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Bozoglan, Hilal; Gok, Duygu – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of a mobile-assisted dialect awareness programme on the dialect attitudes of pre-service English language teachers in Turkey. The study adopted a pre-test and a post-test design including 58 first-grade pre-service English language teachers in two different classes. The experimental group…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Metalinguistics, Scores, Nonstandard Dialects
The Influence of Graphic Calculators on Secondary School Pupils' Ways of Thinking about the Topic "Positivity and Negativity of Functions"
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Abu-Naja, Muhammad – International Journal for Technology in Mathematics Education, 2008
Our research project examined the effects of graphic calculators amongst ninth grade pupils from Arab society in the Negev area in Israel. The goal of this research was to discover and characterise the ways of thinking in this population about the concept of positivity and negativity of functions. To perform this investigation we compared two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technology Uses in Education, Graphing Calculators, Grade 9