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Caspi, Avner; Blau, Ina – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2011
The influence of media richness, media attentional load, social influence and users' prior experience with media on selection of media to transmit different messages to peers within an educational organization was tested. Media were discriminated by all potential variables. Support was found for the role of prior experience and social influence in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Influences, Experience, Rural Schools
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Lavi, Iris; Slone, Michelle – Youth & Society, 2011
Children in countries involved in violent national conflicts experience difficult and, at times, extreme events such as spending long hours in shelters, witnessing terror attacks, or having a family member absent or injured while participating in battle. This study explores the moderating effect of resilience factors, self-esteem, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Experience, National Security
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Levin-Rozalis, Miri; Shochot-Reich, Efrat – Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, 2008
Professional identity is a precondition for the establishment of a profession. This examines the professional identity of program evaluators in Israel. The field of evaluation in Israel has developed differently than in most Western countries--from the ground and with minimal governmental interference--and thus it is an interesting case study. In…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Foreign Countries, Program Evaluation, Self Concept
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Nasser-Abu Alhija, Fadia; Fresko, Barbara – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2010
The present paper focuses on new teachers' satisfaction with their first year of teaching from the perspective of socialization. The relationship between satisfaction with socialization and teacher background, school environment, placement, and induction variables was examined. Data were collected from 243 Israeli beginning teachers by means of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Socialization, Mentors, Predictor Variables
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Aharony, Noa – Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2009
The information world in which library and information science (LIS) students study and are being educated is in a state of constant change. As Web 2.0 is becoming an important and central topic in our information world, the research reported here explores whether LIS students are familiar with technological changes and innovations, and whether…
Descriptors: Information Science Education, Student Attitudes, Resistance to Change, Learning Strategies
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Yavetz, Bela; Goldman, Daphne; Pe'er, Sara – Environmental Education Research, 2009
The adequate preparation of teacher education students in environmental education is a prerequisite for their future ability to design and implement effective environmental education. This longitudinal study compared the environmental literacy of 214 students at the onset and towards the end of their studies, in three academic colleges of…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Environmental Education, Foreign Countries, Student Teacher Attitudes
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Schwartz, Dafna; Malach-Pines, Ayala – Industry and Higher Education, 2009
This paper focuses on factors that influence the appropriateness of entrepreneurship studies to the needs and expectations of management students in Israel, where entrepreneurs are considered cultural heroes. The results of the authors' research revealed great interest in entrepreneurship studies among most of the students surveyed. However,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Entrepreneurship, Student Surveys, Student Educational Objectives
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Guttmann, Joseph; Lazar, Amnon; Makhoul, Samar – Children & Society, 2009
The present study examines the attitudes towards physical punishment (PP) and its actual use as reported by Christian Arab parents and their children in Israel. Participants were parents and one child (of at least two) in 50 Christian Arab families. Three questionnaires based on semi-structured interviews were developed for the study. Results show…
Descriptors: Mothers, Arabs, Interviews, Foreign Countries
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Davidson, Oranit B.; Eden, Dov; Westman, Mina; Cohen-Charash, Yochi; Hammer, Leslie B.; Kluger, Avraham N.; Krausz, Moshe; Maslach, Christina; O'Driscoll, Michael; Perrewe, Pamela L.; Quick, James Campbell; Rosenblatt, Zehava; Spector, Paul E. – Journal of Applied Psychology, 2010
A rigorous quasi-experiment tested the ameliorative effects of a sabbatical leave, a special case of respite from routine work. We hypothesized that (a) respite increases resource level and well-being and (b) individual differences and respite features moderate respite effects. A sample of 129 faculty members on sabbatical and 129 matched controls…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Sabbatical Leaves, Quasiexperimental Design, Hypothesis Testing
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Schwartz, Mila; Moin, Victor; Leikin, Mark; Breitkopf, Anna – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2010
This study investigated how immigrant parents describe and explain their family language policy concerning their child's preschool bilingual development, and also explored the factors linked to the parents' choice of bilingual or monolingual kindergarten for their child. The study design was based on a comparison of 2 groups of parents: those who…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Ideology, Monolingualism, Foreign Countries
Zoller, Uri – Online Submission, 2011
Given the current striving for "sustainability" and the corresponding paradigms shift in science, technology, R&D, environment perception, economy and politics; e.g., from unlimited growth-to-sustainable development, correction-to-prevention and passive consumption of "goods", culture and education--to active participation,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Strategies, Sustainable Development, Science Education
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Shapira-Lishchinsky, Orly; Rosenblatt, Zehava – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2009
Purpose: The present study focuses on developing a conceptual framework that explores the relationships between teachers' intent to leave and a spectrum of ethics perceptions. The authors argue that these relationships are mediated by organizational commitment (affective and normative). Research Design: Organizational ethics was measured by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Organizational Climate, Organizational Culture, Teacher Persistence
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Davidson-Arad, Bilha; Benbenishty, Rami; Golan, Miriam – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2009
Peer violence, peer sexual harassment and abuse, and staff abuse experienced by boys and girls in juvenile correctional facilities are compared with those experienced by peers in schools in the community. Responses of 360 youths in 20 gender-separated correctional facilities in Israel to a questionnaire tapping these forms of mistreatment were…
Descriptors: Sexual Harassment, Correctional Institutions, Foreign Countries, Victims of Crime
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Tartakovsky, Eugene – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2009
This article investigates the cultural identities of adolescent immigrants in the pre-migration period and during the first 3 years after immigration. The target population consists of high-school Jewish adolescents from Russia and Ukraine participating in an Israeli immigration program. In this program, Jewish adolescents immigrate to Israel…
Descriptors: Jews, Boarding Schools, Acculturation, Adolescents
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Dodick, Jeff; Dayan, Aliza; Orion, Nir – International Journal of Science Education, 2010
This research examines the problems that religious Jewish science teachers in Israeli high schools have in coping with science subjects (such as geological time) which conflict with their religious beliefs. We do this by characterizing the philosophical approaches within Judaism that such teachers have adopted for dealing with such controversy.…
Descriptors: Evolution, Jews, Conflict, Coping
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