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Hilla Tal; Dorit Tubin – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2023
The education field favors innovations, but innovative schools tend to fade after an initial 'golden age.' According to the new institutional theory, this happens due to the innovative school's need to achieve institutional legitimacy, which encounters several difficulties. This study aims to explore the journey to attaining legitimacy in one…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Institutional Survival, School Closing, Validity
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Kashy-Rosenbaum, Gabriela; Kaplan, Oren; Israel-Cohen, Yael – Psychology in the Schools, 2018
Using a multilevel approach, this study examined the role of classroom emotional climate on students' academic achievement. Positive and negative emotions and homeroom teachers' support were used to assess the classroom emotional climate on the individual and class levels. To our knowledge, no study to date has investigated these specific aspects…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Environment, Foreign Countries, Grade Point Average
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Yablon, Yaacov B. – School Psychology, 2019
The aim of the study was to investigate the mediating effect of school safety and school connectedness on the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and posttraumatic growth (PTG) among boys and girls facing terror. A cross-sectional research design using a nationwide random sample of 609 (54% girls) 9th (25%), 10th (26%), 11th (24%),…
Descriptors: School Safety, Student School Relationship, Resilience (Psychology), Terrorism
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Dridi, Tarak – Journal of Education, 2022
Oslo Accords have stringently underscored that both rivalries, the Palestinians and the Israelis, must abstain from incitement to terror and violence. Their educational systems, consequently, have to refrain from convulsive, fundamentalist, and heinous skirmishes leading to stalled reconciliation. History school textbooks are deemed, from both…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, History Instruction, World History
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Shachaf, Miri; Katz, Yaacov J.; Shoval, Ella – Education and Society, 2013
This study examined gender, participation in sport and academic achievement of Israeli high school students. The study examined the academic achievement of those who participated in competitive or non-competitive sport and those who did not participate in sport. Results indicate that female athletes who participated in competitive sport attained…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Academic Achievement, Athletics, High School Students
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Raviv, Amiram; Raviv, Alona; Vago-Gefen, Idit; Fink, Abby Schachter – Journal of Adolescence, 2009
The study explores adolescents' attitudes toward seeking help for emotional problems. The personal service gap is examined by asking adolescents about their willingness to refer themselves and others to formal (psychologists) and informal (friends) help sources, using a within-subjects design. The study included 662 Israeli adolescents in the 10th…
Descriptors: Emotional Problems, Help Seeking, Psychologists, Adolescents
Tamir, Pinchas – 1989
An investigation of biology matriculation tests in Israel was undertaken to assess the use of justifications with multiple-choice items and to compare the effect of three item formats on students' performance. More specifically, the study was designed to determine the: (1) extent to which justifications will differ if the correct answer is made…
Descriptors: Biology, College Entrance Examinations, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies