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Direct linkMiri Shonfeld – Intercultural Education, 2024
This study explores the potential of empowering children as peace agents through education by using the case of the TEC4Schools program. The program is based on Allport's Contact Theory and promotes prolonged exposure to the 'other' culture among culturally diverse groups of students. It is based on the hypothesis that extended contact periods…
Descriptors: Peace, Children, Empowerment, Cultural Awareness
Rami Benbenishty; Ron Avi Astor; Michal Shemesh; Dana Avital; Tal Raz; Ilan Roziner – Journal of School Violence, 2025
The study aims to examine changes over time in school victimization and climate in Israel, and whether these changes varied between Jewish and Arab schools and schools with different SES. A secondary analysis of the Ministry of Education database of structured student surveys regarding victimization and climate, was conducted during 2008-2019. All…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Arabs, Jews, Victims
Jaffal, Abeer F.; Abu-Hilal, Maher; Al-Naimi, Mariam N. – Gifted Education International, 2021
This study tested the construct validity and reliability of the Scales for Rating the Behavioral Characteristics of Superior Students (SRBCSS) with the purpose to have a valid and reliable measure to identify the gifted individuals. The sample consisted of 176 superior students from grades five and six in Qatar. The results revealed a high…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Test Reliability, Rating Scales, Student Behavior
Sedawi, Wisam; Ben Zvi Assaraf, Orit; Reiss, Michael J. – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2020
This study investigates the concept of "connectedness to nature" among students from an indigenous Bedouin community, whose relationship with nature is influenced by a variety of cultural, social and environmental factors, not least of which is the fact that the environment in which they live is highly contaminated. We asked 294 fifth-…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Ethnic Groups, Arabs
Zubi, Ibtisam Abdelhalek; Peled, Irit; Yarden, Marva – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2019
This study investigates the participation and knowledge growth of children with mathematical difficulties as they work in groups with their classmates on a year-long sequence of modelling tasks. It involves observations of a class of 23 fifth graders, 9 of whom were identified as having difficulties in mathematics. All the students worked for 8…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Mathematics Instruction, Learning Problems, Grade 5
Orner, Aviv; Netz, Hadar – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2023
This paper presents an ethnographic study analyzing the influence of students' social backgrounds on students' entitlement and agency in relation to floor rights. Classroom interactions were video-recorded, and interviews were conducted in a socially diverse fifth-grade in Israel. Descriptive statistics and micro-analyses of participation patterns…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Classroom Communication, Discourse Analysis, Grade 5
Addi-Raccah, Audrey; Dana, Oshra – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2015
Private tutoring (PT) is becoming a worldwide phenomenon. In Israel too, about a third of elementary school students participate in PT. Based on sociological and school quality considerations, we examined school characteristics that are associated with PT intensity at school. The data encompassed a random state wide sample of 389 Israeli…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Elementary School Students, Socioeconomic Influences, Socioeconomic Status
Cahan, Sorel; Barneron, Meir; Kassim, Suhad – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2014
Relying on the results of the achievement tests in mathematics, science, native language (Hebrew/Arabic) and English, administered to 1430 5th-grade co-educational classes in Israel, this study examines the between-class variability of the within-class mean score gender differences and its class and school correlates. The four main results of the…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Academic Achievement, Grade 5, Elementary School Students
Moussa, Wael Soheil – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation examines the student academic achievement through various mechanisms, put in place by the public school district, classroom student behavior, and negative external shocks to the students' living environment. I examine the impacts of various treatments on student short and long run academic outcomes such as math and English test…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Student Behavior, Public Schools, Correlation
Download full textRass, Ruwaida Abu; Holzman, Susan – English Language Teaching, 2010
This research has shown that the use of authentic children's literature is an effective and motivating "ESL" classroom strategy. However, this study investigated the use of children's stories in "EFL" elementary classrooms where the teaching methods are very traditional and the resources are limited. This study was carried out…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Childrens Literature, Arabs, Second Language Instruction
Sarouphim, Ketty M.; Maker, C. June – Online Submission, 2009
The purpose of this study was to examine ethnic and gender differences in using DISCOVER, a performance-based assessment, for identifying gifted students from diverse ethnicities. DISCOVER is an acronym which stands for Discovering Intellectual Strength and Capabilities while Observing Varied Ethnic Responses. The sample consisted of 941 boys and…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Differences, Gender Differences, Performance Based Assessment
Khoury-Kassabri, Mona – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2006
Objectives: This study examines the relationships between physical, emotional, and sexual victimization of school students by educational staff with a number of variables describing the student (gender, age, and relationship with teachers) and the school (the socioeconomic status (SES) of the students' families and school's neighborhood, school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty, Child Abuse, Victims of Crime
DeRosier, Melissa E. – Journal of School Violence, 2004
Since September 11, 2001, ethnic tensions involving persons of Middle Eastern descent have increased in the United States. This study examined the peer relationships of 748 fifth-grade students of different ethnic groups both at one month and eight months post-9-11. Results indicated that only Middle Eastern children showed a large drop in…
Descriptors: Bullying, Ethnic Groups, Peer Relationship, Social Environment
