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Direct linkMishal, Adina; Patkin, Dorit – Teacher Development, 2016
The present study aimed to explore the contribution of a mathematics in-service training course to elementary school teachers (1st-6th grades) in Israel. The study was conducted among 449 educators. They were required to respond to background questions. Moreover, they were asked to indicate their expectations from the in-service training course…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Inservice Teacher Education, Mathematics Instruction
Esslinger, Deborah S. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to investigate the insights of a small group of women to determine factors important in encouraging creative confidence and specific activities that would contribute to creative growth. There were three research questions that guided the study, using an open-ended questionnaire and a focus group…
Descriptors: Creativity, Self Esteem, Females, Educational Environment
Download full textRass, Ruwaida Abu – Journal of Education and Learning, 2013
This paper reports the results of a qualitative research study designed to examine the effectiveness of an attempt to make a conceptual change among pre-service teachers to their role as trainees and the role of their pedagogical advisor. The participants are six Arab-Muslim female student teachers who are highly influenced by their first learning…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Arabs, Muslims, Student Teachers
Mousavi, Shima; Radmehr, Farzad; Alamolhodaei, Hasan – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2012
Introduction: The main objective of this study is (a) to investigate whether cognitive styles and working memory capacity could predict mathematical performance and which variable is relatively most important in predicting mathematical performance and b) to explore whether cognitive styles and working memory capacity could predict mathematical…
Descriptors: Homework, Cognitive Style, Short Term Memory, Role
Moussa-Inaty, Jase; Atallah, Fida – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2012
The study investigates the use of different multimedia instructional design formats on learning. Undergraduate students from the College of Education at a public university in the United Arab Emirates were randomly assigned to groups corresponding to six instructional design formats, namely; Listen Only, Read Only, Read+ Listen, Listen + Graphics,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Prior Learning, Statistical Analysis, Cognitive Processes
Divjak, Blazenka; Ostroski, Mirela; Hains, Violeta Vidacek – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2010
This article reports on the research whose specific objective is to improve student retention in mathematics included in the first-year ICT study programme by means of improving teaching methods, with an emphasis on gender issues. Two principal reasons for this research are, first, the fact that first-year mathematics courses are often viewed as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Context, Gender Issues, Gender Differences
Peer reviewedKoff, Elissa; And Others – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1982
A retrospective questionnaire administered to 97 women found that the more knowledgeable a girl was prior to menarche, the more adequate she perceived her preparation for menarche to have been; and the older she was at the time of menarche, the more likely she was to report a positive initial experience. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Age, Experience, Females, Higher Education
Tsou, Meng-Wen; Liu, Jin-Tan – Education Economics, 2006
This paper sets out to examine the impacts of schooling and health knowledge on the level of obesity in Taiwan. The results obtained from a sample of Taiwanese females support the hypothesis of Grossman that schooling has a direct positive effect on health by reducing the likelihood of a person being obese. The awareness of obesity-disease…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Obesity, Health Behavior
Novotna, Jarmila, Ed.; Moraova, Hana, Ed.; Kratka, Magdalena, Ed.; Stehlikova, Nad'a, Ed. – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2006
This volume of the 30th annual proceedings of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education conference presents: plenary panel papers; research forum papers; short oral communication papers; and poster presentation papers from the meeting. Information relating to discussion groups and working sessions is also provided.…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Mathematics Instruction
