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Berkowitz, Ruth – School Psychology International, 2014
School bullying is a worldwide worrisome phenomenon that occurs within a broad context in which pupils and teachers can either reinforce or undermine violent behavior through interaction. Based on a nationally representative sample of students in Israel, this study examined patterns in student perceptions of student and teacher responses to school…
Descriptors: Bullying, Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Victims
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Blonder, Ron; Sakhnini, Sohair – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2012
A nanotechnology module was developed for ninth grade students in the context of teaching chemistry. Two basic concepts in nanotechnology were chosen: (1) size and scale and (2) surface-area-to-volume ratio (SA/V). A wide spectrum of instructional methods (e.g., game-based learning, learning with multimedia, learning with models, project based…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Student Projects, Grade 9
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Ronen, Tammie; Rosenbaum, Michael – Research on Social Work Practice, 2010
This article describes a school-based aggression reduction intervention program aiming to impart highly aggressive adolescents with a learned resourcefulness repertoire, using Ronen and Rosenbaum's four-module self-control model. Intervention aimed to teach adolescents that aggression is changeable behavior resulting from how they think and feel,…
Descriptors: Cues, Intervention, Aggression, Adolescents
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Eilam, Billie; Poyas, Yael – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2012
The paper examined expert literature teachers' coping with a novel textbook, integrating literature with visual arts, which is a particular interdisciplinary case of text-image relations in textbooks. Examination was performed within the framework of teachers' responses to curricular changes and of theory regarding strategies of interdisciplinary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Arts, Semitic Languages, Visual Arts
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Mualem, Roni; Eylon, Bat Sheva – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2010
Students at the junior high school (JHS) level often cannot use their knowledge of physics for explaining and predicting phenomena. We claim that this difficulty stems from the fact that explanations are multi-step reasoning tasks, and students often lack the qualitative problem-solving strategies needed to guide them. This article describes a new…
Descriptors: Mechanics (Physics), Grade 9, Junior High Schools, Secondary School Science
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Spektor-Levy, Ornit; Granot-Gilat, Yael – Interdisciplinary Journal of E-Learning and Learning Objects, 2012
The goal of this study was to examine the impact of a one-to-one program on the implementation of learning skills, information literacy, and the usage of computerized tools among students. These skills are part of the demands placed upon schools to develop 21st century competencies. Seventh and ninth grade students participated in this study…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Information Literacy, Middle School Students, Learning Strategies
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Kramarski, Bracha; Dudai, Vered – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2009
This exploratory study investigated 100 Israeli 9th graders who used two different group-metacognitive support methods in online mathematical inquiry--group feedback guidance (GFG) and self-explanation guidance (SEG)--compared to a control group (CONT). The study evaluated each method's effects on students': (a) mathematical inquiry ability:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics, Inquiry, Problem Solving
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Kramarski, Bracha; Zoldan, Sarit – Journal of Educational Research, 2008
The authors examined effects of 3 metacognitive approaches and 1 control group on mathematical reasoning, conceptual errors, and metacognitive knowledge. The metacognitive approaches were (a) diagnosing errors (DIA), (b) improvement via self-questioning (IMP), and (c) a combined approach (DIA+IMP). Controls (CONT) received no metacognitive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Control Groups, Metacognition, Teaching Methods
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Roth, Guy; Assor, Avi; Niemiec, Christopher P.; Deci, Edward L.; Ryan, Richard M. – Developmental Psychology, 2009
The authors conducted 2 studies of 9th-grade Israeli adolescents (169 in Study 1, 156 in Study 2) to compare the parenting practices of conditional positive regard, conditional negative regard, and autonomy support using data from multiple reporters. Two socialization domains were studied: emotion control and academics. Results were consistent…
Descriptors: Socialization, Parenting Styles, Child Rearing, Student Motivation
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Abu-Naja, Muhammad – International Journal for Technology in Mathematics Education, 2008
Our research project examined the effects of graphic calculators amongst ninth grade pupils from Arab society in the Negev area in Israel. The goal of this research was to discover and characterise the ways of thinking in this population about the concept of positivity and negativity of functions. To perform this investigation we compared two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technology Uses in Education, Graphing Calculators, Grade 9
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Sharabany, Ruth; Eshel, Yohanan; Hakim, Caesar – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2008
The development of intimate same- and other-sex friendships in Arab children and adolescents in Israel was investigated in relation to their perceived parenting styles. It was hypothesized that girls would show higher levels of intimacy than boys, and that cross-sex intimacy in both groups would increase with age, whereas same-sex intimate…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Child Rearing, Arabs, Intimacy
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Levin, Tamar; Shohamy, Elana – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2008
This article reports findings obtained from a large-scale national study (299 schools; 2761 students) that examined academic achievements of immigrants in Israeli schools. It focused on two distinct groups of immigrant students--those from the former USSR and from Ethiopia, in two subject areas--mathematics and academic language (Hebrew), and in…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Academic Achievement, Measures (Individuals), Foreign Countries
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Kaplan, Avi; Lichtinger, Einat; Gorodetsky, Malka – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2009
This study tested the hypothesis that self-regulation of writing is a multifaceted modular construct and that students would perceive different goal orientations for writing as involving the application of different writing strategies. Two hundred eleven Jewish Israeli high school students engaged in a writing assignment and then reported on their…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Jews, Writing Strategies, Writing Achievement
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Kotzer, Efrat; Margalit, Malka – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2007
The purpose of this study was to identify predictors of competence among adolescents with learning disabilities (LD) who participated in a virtual supported self-advocacy programme within the risk and protective paradigm. The sample consisted of 374 adolescents with and without learning disabilities, students of the 7th to 9th grades, at 15…
Descriptors: Competence, At Risk Persons, Predictor Variables, Advocacy
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Abdeen, Ziad; Qasrawi, Radwan; Nabil, Shibli; Shaheen, Mohammad – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2008
Children exposed to violent war-like and repeated political violence often experience a continued threat to life and their sense of safety, as well as a disruption of daily functioning. The purpose of the study was to examine the psychological impact of exposure to Israeli occupation on Palestinian school children in the West Bank and Gaza,…
Descriptors: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Identification, Coping, Foreign Countries
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