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Elsayed, Mahmoud A. A.; Clerkin, Aidan; Pitsia, Vasiliki; Aljabri, Nayyaf; Al-Harbi, Khaleel – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2022
Boys in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia consistently and significantly underperform compared to girls across different grades and subjects, forming one of the largest gender gaps in student achievement in the world. Saudi Arabia offers a unique setting in which boys and girls attend separate schools on a universal basis starting from grade 1. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Males, Underachievement, Gender Differences
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Alrawili, Khaled Saleh; Osman, Kamisah; Almuntasheri, Saeed – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2020
Encouraging students' higher-order thinking skills (HOTs) has become an ultimate objective for several education programmes. Being a significant domain of scaffolding strategies, HOTs has been considered as a concern that should persistently be at the vanguard of reform agenda of science. The present research aims to examine the effect of…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Thinking Skills, Evaluative Thinking
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Alawad, Abeer – Educational Research and Reviews, 2012
This paper explores the relationship between the natural world and its potential benefits to the art classroom environment. In particular, it considers the following research question: Can natural sound foster creativity? The study investigates the role of natural sound on creative ability in girls' intermediate schools (12 to 15 years) in Jeddah,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Studio Art, Painting (Visual Arts), Art Activities
Alsaeed, Maha Saad – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Teachers in Saudi Arabia are attempting to advance their teaching in mathematics to address specific reforms by the Ministry of Education. Saudi teachers must improve their students' thinking through engagement in problem solving. This qualitative study investigated how teachers use knowledge of student mathematical learning and how they promote…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Teachers, Educational Change, Teaching Methods