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Cohen, Elisheva – American Educational Research Journal, 2023
This article examines the complex process of teachers' care for students in contexts of inclusive refugee education in Jordan, where Syrian refugees and Jordanian students study together. I illustrate that while teachers' caring practices represent efforts to support refugee students, they are limited by teachers' inability to see the social,…
Descriptors: Caring, Educational Practices, Inclusion, Refugees
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Perry, Lindsey – Global Education Review, 2018
As the global development community shifts its focus from improving access to education to improving learning and instruction, the need for instruments that accurately measure student achievement in mathematics and meet technical standards is increasing. This paper explores the importance of collecting high-quality validity evidence that aligns…
Descriptors: Mathematics Tests, Test Validity, Spatial Ability, Foreign Countries
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Alnasraween, Moen Salman; Almughrabi, Ayat Mohammad; Ammari, Raeda Mofid; Alkaramneh, Mohammad Saleh – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2021
The purpose of this study is to construct a digital culture test in light of the Item Response Theory and to investigate its psychometric properties. The study sample consisted of six hundred fifty (650) male and female students in the eighth grade from the Directorate of Education and Teaching of Salt District. To obtain the results, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technological Literacy, Tests, Psychometrics
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Ilgun Dibek, Munevver – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2020
Purpose: Cross-cultural comparisons based on ordinal Likert-type rating scales have been threatened by response style which is systematic tendencies to respond to items regardless of the item content. So, this study aimed to investigate the effect of extreme response style and acquisance response style on TIMSS 2015 data. Method: The sample of…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Mathematics Achievement
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Abu-Alruz, Jamal H. – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2018
The purpose of the present study is to validate an Arabic version of STEBI-B using Rasch model techniques. The validated Arabic version of the instrument (A-STEBIB) was administered to a sample of (168) Jordanian prospective elementary school science teachers enrolled in the Hashemite University classroom teacher preparation program. Rasch…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Science Education
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Momany, Mohammad A.; Khasawneh, Omar – European Journal of Educational Sciences, 2014
The purpose of this study was to identify the educational philosophical implications of idealism as an educational theory throughout the Jordanian public schools from elementary teachers' perspectives. The researchers used a questionnaire consisted of thirty two statements as a quantitative method to collect data as one of the techniques and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Theories, Public Schools, Elementary School Teachers
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Alampay, Liane Peña; Godwin, Jennifer; Lansford, Jennifer E.; Bombi, Anna Silvia; Bornstein, Marc H.; Chang, Lei; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Giunta, Laura Di; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Malone, Patrick S.; Oburu, Paul; Pastorelli, Concetta; Skinner, Ann T.; Sorbring, Emma; Tapanya, Sombat; Tirado, Liliana M. Uribe; Zelli, Arnaldo; Al-Hassan, Suha M.; Bacchini, Dario – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2017
There is strong evidence of a positive association between corporal punishment and negative child outcomes, but previous studies have suggested that the manner in which parents implement corporal punishment moderates the effects of its use. This study investigated whether severity and justness in the use of corporal punishment moderate the…
Descriptors: Punishment, Justice, Incidence, Child Behavior
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Al-Hassan, Omayya; Al-Barakat, Ali; Al-Hassan, Yazid – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2012
This research study investigates pre-service teachers' perceptions of their field experience in kindergartens and schools in Jordan. A total of 57 pre-service early years teachers wrote weekly reflective journals describing and commenting on their experiences during placement in kindergartens and elementary schools. Three major themes emerged from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Field Experience Programs
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Aldalalah, Osamah Ahmad; Fong, Soon Fook – International Education Studies, 2010
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of modality and redundancy principles on the attitude and learning of music theory among primary pupils of different aptitudes in Jordan. The lesson of music theory was developed in three different modes, audio and image (AI), text with image (TI) and audio with image and text (AIT). The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Learning, Student Attitudes