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Lavy, Victor – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2012
In this paper, I examine how student academic achievements and behavior were affected by a school finance policy experiment undertaken in elementary schools in Israel. Begun in 2004, the funding formula changed from a budget set per class to a budget set per student, with more weight given to students from lower socioeconomic and lower educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Time on Task, Educational Finance, Financial Support
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Shechtman, Zipora; Leichtentritt, Judy – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2004
The purpose of the study was to enhance classroom management in special education classrooms. "Affective teaching" was compared with "cognitive teaching" in 52 classrooms in Israel. Data was collected based on observations of three 90 minute lessons, equally divided into the two types of instruction. Results of MANOVA…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Age Differences, Classroom Techniques, Special Education
Davis, Dan; And Others – 1986
A study of the behavior of children working on mathematics drill and practice on one of four Israeli computer-assisted instruction (CAI) systems--Mashov, Semel, Tapuach 1 and 3, or Toam 2--was carried out via observations in a sample of 21 computer rooms throughout Israel, and in a computer room operated by research staff. These observations…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Drills (Practice), Elementary Education, Foreign Countries