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A Classroom Observational Study of Qatar's Independent Schools: Instruction and School Reform
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Palmer, Douglas J.; Sadiq, Hissa M.; Lynch, Patricia; Parker, Dawn; Viruru, Radhika; Knight, Stephanie; Waxman, Hersh; Alford, Beverly; Brown, Danielle Bairrington; Rollins, Kayla; Stillisano, Jacqueline; Abu-Tineh, Abdullah M. Hamdan; Nasser, Ramzi; Allen, Nancy; Al-Binali, Hessa; Ellili, Maha; Al-Kateeb, Haithem; Al-Kubaisi, Huda – Journal of Educational Research, 2016
Qatar initiated a K-12 national educational reform in 2001. However, there is limited information on the instructional practices of the teachers in the reform schools. This project was an observational study of classrooms with a stratified random sample of the first six cohorts of reform schools. Specifically, 156 classrooms were observed in 29…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Schools, Educational Change, Educational Practices
Educators' Perceptions of Bullying before and after Implementing a Bullying Prevention Program
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Phillips, Lorraine Denise – ProQuest LLC, 2014
In suburban schools in Western Pennsylvania, students, educators, parents, and community members are experiencing the negative effects caused by school bullying. Some educators cannot identify bullying, do not perceive bullying as problematic, or are not trained to intervene in bullying events. The purpose of this quasi-experimental, single group,…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Bullying, Quasiexperimental Design, Pretests Posttests
Do Girls Profit More? Gender-Specific Effectiveness of a Life Skills Program against Alcohol Consumption in Early Adolescence
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Weichold, Karina; Brambosch, Anett; Silbereisen, Rainer K. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2012
This study investigated the effectiveness of a life skills program with regard to alcohol consumption, life skills, knowledge, and school bonding for young adolescents. The focus was on the moderating role of gender, based on the assumption that life skills programs may address specific needs of adolescent girls better than those of boys. The…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Drinking, Early Adolescents, Program Effectiveness
Correlates of Cigarette Smoking among Male Chinese College Students in China--A Preliminary Study
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Li, Kaigang; Kay, Noy S. – International Electronic Journal of Health Education, 2009
The main purpose of this preliminary study was to examine the association between four constructs of the Health Belief Model (HBM) (i.e. perceived severity of smoking-related health problems, perceived susceptibility to smoking-health related problems, perceived barriers to non-smoking and perceived benefits of non-smoking) and cigarette smoking …
Descriptors: College Students, Smoking, Prevention, Foreign Countries