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Lieblich, A.; Kugelmass, S. – Intelligence, 1981
Patterns of intellectual ability of Arab children aged 6 to 16 years were examined using the new Arab WISC-R. As in prior work, a distinct profile emerged: relative superiority in Verbal over Performance IQ's which diminished with age as a flat profile emerged in adolescence. An environmental explanation is offered. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Intellectual Development
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Pines, Ayala M.; Zaidman, Nurit; Wang, Yihua; Chengbing, Han; Ping, Lu – School Psychology International, 2003
Addresses the topic of cross-cultural differences in college students' use of social support. Israeli and Chinese students rated the importance and availability of various support functions and noted whom they turn to when faced with different problems. Findings show that while both Israelis and Chinese students view the various functions of…
Descriptors: College Students, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences, Foreign Countries
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Gaziel, Haim H. – Comparative Education, 1993
Among 373 Jewish and Arab elementary teachers surveyed in Jerusalem, Jewish teachers reported higher occupational stress overall and in relation to community and parental expectations, whereas Arab teachers were more stressed by working conditions and professional image. The two groups also differed in coping strategies for managing job stress.…
Descriptors: Coping, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, Elementary Education
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Pratto, Felicia; Liu, James H.; Levin, Shana; Sidanius, Jim; Shih, Margaret; Bachrach, Hagit; Hegarty, Peter – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 2000
Examined the relationships among group inequality, cultural ideologies, and social dominance orientation (SDO) in Canada, Taiwan, Israel, and China. Survey data indicated that SDO was reliably measurable in these four cultures, with many legitimizing ideologies existing regarding SDO and sexism, SDO and ethnic prejudice, SDO and conservatism, and…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, Ethnic Bias, Foreign Countries
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Toren, Zehava – Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education, 2004
This research focuses on attitudes toward artwork reflected in the official curriculum and pedagogical material in Israeli kindergartens, and the role this attitude plays in the reproduction of the class structure--specifically, the different institutional approaches to artwork in the kindergarten and the reproduction of cultural capital. This…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Foreign Countries, Art Education, Curriculum
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Khoury-Kassabri, Mona; Benbenishty, Rami; Astor, Ron Avi – Social Work Research, 2005
The study reported in this article is based on a nationally representative sample of 10,400 students in grades 7 through 11 in 162 schools across Israel. The authors used hierarchical linear modeling to examine the differences between Jewish and Arab schools in the relationships between school-level variables--socioeconomic status (SES) of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Arabs, Jews, Cultural Influences
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Marachi, Roxana; Astor, Ron Avi; Benbenishty, Rami – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2007
Much of the research literature on school violence has focused narrowly on individual characteristics of troubled youth, without careful examination of contextual factors that might influence violence and victimization in school settings. This study examines the associations among Student Participation in Decision-Making in their Schools, Teacher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Individual Characteristics, Victims of Crime, Student Participation
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Rapaport, Chanan; And Others – Early Child Development and Care, 1976
This monograph describes early child care in Israel along the following dimensions: historical perspectives, the status of disadvantaged minorities, cultural assumptions and values, division of responsibilities, planning, socialization, programs, professional training, information and communication, and research. Statistical tables include…
Descriptors: Child Care, Cultural Influences, Day Care, Early Childhood Education
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Horowitz, Tamar Ruth – Comparative Education, 1985
Immigrant teachers in Israel--314 from the Soviet Union and 91 from North America--completed questionaires about attitudes toward teaching, perception of status, past training, etc. Responses showed significant differences between the groups reflecting two distinct models of the occupation of teaching and distinct patterns of adjustment to the…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Cultural Influences
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Ben-Ari, Adital Tirosh; Azaiza, Faisal – Journal of Social Psychology, 1998
Examines 662 Arab adolescents' commitments to their own self-development, family, Arab people, and village along with the order in which these commitments are structured. Reveals that the two prevalent patterns of adolescent commitment, individualistic and collectivistic, demonstrate the adolescents' struggle with these value systems and the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attitudes, Cultural Influences, Family Influence
Lochhead, Jack; And Others – 1985
Numerous research studies over the past five years indicate that a high percentage of college students have severe deficiencies in their ability to use mathematics as a language for representing simple quantitative relationships. In the United States these problems are nearly as common among students with strong computational skills in algebra and…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, College Students, Cultural Influences, Higher Education
Kravetz, Nathan – 1979
Child development in Israel takes place in a context of many unique influences. Influences which define the nature of family experience include religion, ethnic group membership, immigrant or non-immigrant status, and urban or rural living. All of these influences are situated within, and further influenced by, the continuous state of military…
Descriptors: Arabs, Child Development, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Context
Glasman, Naftaly S. – 1970
This paper examines the concepts of educational governance and educational politics, explores issues related to these concepts (with the aid of selected references to the American setting), and describes and analyzes developments in teacher selection for Israeli junior high schools. These developments demonstrate interrelationships between…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences, Educational Policy
Robinson, H. Alan; And Others – 1974
A study of the current expressed reading interests of children in the first two years of school conducted in ten countries--Austria, Canada, England, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Panama, Sweden, and the United States--is reported in this paper. Over 2,000 children drew pictures about what they would best like to read or have read to…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences, Grade 1, Grade 2
Lewy, Arieh; Chen, Michael – Evaluation in Education: International Progress, 1977
Israeli children of Jewish parents from Europe and America had higher average achievement test scores than did the children of Jewish fathers from Africa and Asia outside of Israel. The difference in means between the two groups did not increase between grade four and grade six. (CTM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Influences
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