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Snir, Raphael – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2017
Relocation of an academic unit affects not only the staff, but also the students. A pre- and post-move study examined the responses of undergraduate students to the relocation to a new and spacious campus carried out during the break between two semesters. The distance between the old and the new site did not require home relocation. However, it…
Descriptors: Pretests Posttests, Undergraduate Students, Relocation, Mobility
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Magnezi, Racheli; Bergman, Lisa Carroll; Urowitz, Sara – Health Education & Behavior, 2015
Objectives. To understand how patient preferences and perceptions of their relationship with their doctor (as patient, friend, partner, client, consumer, or insured) affects confidence in care provided and participation in health care. Methods. Telephone questionnaire to 2,135 households, representative of the population in Israel. Results. A…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physician Patient Relationship, Patients, Physicians
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Zach, Sima; Yazdi-Ugav, Orly; Zeev, Aviva – School Psychology International, 2016
This study aimed to examine to what extent academic achievements, learning disorders, behavior problems and loneliness explain the variance of students' social skills. The differences between students diagnosed with learning disorders and students without learning disorders in all four variables were examined. Participants were 733 elementary…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Problems, Predictor Variables, Learning Problems
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Kennet-Cohen, Tamar; Turvall, Elliot; Oren, Carmel – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2014
This study examined selection bias in Israeli university admissions with respect to test language and gender, using three approaches for the detection of such bias: Cleary's model of differential prediction, boundary conditions for differential prediction and difference between "d's" (the Constant Ratio Model). The university admissions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Admission, Test Bias, Gender Bias
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Fisherman, Shraga – Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 2015
The novelty of the present study is its attempt to distinguish between pre-school, elementary, and post-elementary school teachers, regarding the relationship between professional identity and burnout. Two hundred and forty teachers responded to two questionnaires: professional identity and teacher burnout scales. Pre-school teachers were found to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Burnout, Preschool Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
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Shahar-Yames, Daphna; Prior, Anat – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
We examined reading proficiency, focusing on fluency, in 56 Russian-speaking language minority (LM) students and 56 native Hebrew-speaking (NH) peers. Fifth-grade students completed measures of Hebrew reading accuracy and fluency from word to text level as well as phonological awareness (PA), RAN and vocabulary. LM students read single words less…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Language Minorities
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Chachashvili-Bolotin, Svetlana; Milner-Bolotin, Marina; Lissitsa, Sabina – International Journal of Science Education, 2016
Based on the Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT), the study aims to investigate factors that predict students' interest in pursuing science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields in tertiary education both in general and in relation to their gender and socio-economic background. The results of the analysis of survey responses of…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Student Interests, STEM Education, Postsecondary Education
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Alon, Nirit Lavie; Tal, Tali – International Journal of Science Education, 2015
In this study, we used the classification and regression trees (CART) method to draw relationships between student self-reported learning outcomes in 26 field trips to natural environments and various characteristics of the field trip that include variables associated with preparation and pedagogy. We wished to examine the extent to which the…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Classification, Regression (Statistics), Curriculum Design
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Aharony, Noa – College & Research Libraries, 2014
This study which is based on the Technological Acceptance Model (TAM), seeks to explore whether librarians and LIS students are familiar with the newest technological innovations and whether they are ready to accept them. The research was conducted in Israel during the first and second semesters of the 2012 academic year and considered two…
Descriptors: Librarians, Library Education, Library Science, Electronic Libraries
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Sisask, Merike; Värnik, Peeter; Värnik, Airi; Apter, Alan; Balazs, Judit; Balint, Maria; Bobes, Julio; Brunner, Romuald; Corcoran, Paul; Cosman, Doina; Feldman, Dana; Haring, Christian; Kahn, Jean-Pierre; Poštuvan, Vita; Tubiana, Alexandra; Sarchiapone, Marco; Wasserman, Camilla; Carli, Vladimir; Hoven, Christina W.; Wasserman, Danuta – Health Education Journal, 2014
Objective: In support of a whole-school approach to mental health promotion, this study was conducted to find out whether and how significantly teachers' satisfaction with school and their subjective psychological well-being are related to the belief that they can help pupils with mental health problems. Design: Cross-sectional data were collected…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Teacher Attitudes, Job Satisfaction, Well Being
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Raz, Raanan; Lerner-Geva, Liat; Leon, Odelia; Chodick, Gabriel; Gabis, Lidia V. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2013
We describe a survey of children with ASD aged 4-10 years. The main dependent variables were out-of-pocket expenditures for health services and hours of therapy. Multivariable logistic regression models were used in order to find independent predictors for service utilization. Parents of 178 of the children (87%) agreed to participate. The average…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Surveys, Children, Autism
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Brookmeyer, Kathryn A.; Henrich, Christopher C.; Cohen, Guina; Shahar, Golan – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2011
This study investigates how social support may protect Israeli early adolescents who have witnessed community violence from engaging in violent behavior when they have also witnessed terror violence. The study examines how support from parents, school, and friends could serve as protective, despite the interactive risk effects of witnessing…
Descriptors: Violence, Early Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Terrorism
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Pat-Horenczyk, Ruth; Kenan, Avraham Max; Achituv, Michal; Bachar, Eytan – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2014
Background: There is growing application of school-based screening to identify post-traumatic distress in students following exposure to trauma. The consensus method is based on self-report questionnaires that assess posttraumatic symptoms, functional impairment, depression or anxiety. Objective: The current research explored the possibility of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Screening Tests, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Clinical Diagnosis
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Boehm, Amnon; Cohen, Ayala – Journal of Social Work Education, 2013
It is important to develop commitment to community practice among social work students to encourage their engagement in this field as professionals later in life. This research examines factors that affect commitment to community practice among social work students. A structured questionnaire was administered to 277 social work students in one…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Work, Student Surveys, Questionnaires
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Kariv, Dafna; Heiman, Tali – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2005
The main objective of this study is to explore the coping behaviours of Israeli continuing education students who combine work and academic studies. Multi-level analyses revealed that: (1) perceived academic stress is determined by academic load and perceived work stress by workload; (2) coping strategies are related to an array of perceived…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Stress Management, Coping, Hierarchical Linear Modeling
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