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Orit Fuks – Sign Language Studies, 2023
This study undertook iconicity ratings and conducted transparency experiments on Israeli Sign Language (ISL). Experiment 1 compared the iconicity ratings of 520 lexical signs of ten Deaf ISL signers and thirteen hearing non-signers. Ratings were found to be affected by language knowledge, lexical class, and type of iconic mapping, as well as by…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Sign Language, Motion, Foreign Countries
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Peterson, Amy J.; Silver, Gillian K.; Bell, Heather A.; Guinosso, Stephanie A.; Coyle, Karin K. – American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2023
This synthesis of 30 qualitative studies examined young people's views on pornography related to their sexual health. Synthesis revealed pornography use is considered normal by young people, reinforced by its usefulness as a tool for pleasure, information, and instruction in the absence of sufficient sexuality education. However, youth can become…
Descriptors: Pornography, Sexuality, Health Behavior, Social Bias
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Abu-Asbah, Khaled – Education and Information Technologies, 2018
The research dealt with intergenerational gaps in the use of digital technology in Palestinian society in Israel and its influence on relations between parents and their children. 120 parents from the center of the country participated in the study and one of the children (male or female) from each couple. Findings indicate the existence of…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Age Differences, Foreign Countries, Parent Attitudes
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Zilka, Gila Cohen – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2018
Children and adolescents are exposed to a huge variety of communication channels. In this study, we examined the relationship between medium preference and content consumed, and the factors of preference by Israeli children and adolescents, with reference to socio-demographic characteristics. This is a quantitative, mixed-method study with a…
Descriptors: Correlation, Preferences, Internet, Television
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Silberberg, Roi – Ethics and Education, 2019
This article presents and analyzes two examples of peace education practices in the Israeli-Palestinian context. "Zochrot" is an organization dedicated to raising public awareness of the Palestinian Nakba, especially among Jews in Israel. "The School for Peace" is a Jewish-Arab organization that conducts encounter activities…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Peace, Jews, Arabs
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Antony-Newman, Max – Educational Review, 2019
As a key predictor of students' academic achievement parental involvement has been in the centre of attention of both educational researchers and policymakers for quite some time. Immigrant parents represent a growing, but under-researched group with its distinctive experiences and expectations. This study provides a systematic synthesis of 40…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Immigrants, Foreign Countries, Barriers
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Michalsky, Tova – Teachers College Record, 2017
To foster their students' self-regulated learning (SRL), teachers' lesson goals should include not only SRL teaching but also assessment of students' SRL behaviors/processes to verify whether teachers achieved their goals. This article presents a study that sought to examine teachers' knowledge about SRL assessment, actual assessment of SRL in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Knowledge Level, Teacher Behavior
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Avidov-Ungar, Orit; Reingold, Roni – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2018
In Israel, the Ministry of Education determines all aspects of educational policy, including teachers' initial teacher education, licensing and professional development. As part of the New Horizon educational reform, the Ministry announced in 2010 a new plan for the professional development of teachers in Israel. The Ministry assigned a mediating…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Administrator Role, Faculty Development, Teacher Educators
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Fortus, David; Shwartz, Yael; Rosenfeld, Sherman – Research in Science Education, 2016
Modeling is a core scientific practice. This study probed the meta-modeling knowledge (MMK) of high school students who study science but had not had any explicit prior exposure to modeling as part of their formal schooling. Our goals were to (A) evaluate the degree to which MMK is dependent on content knowledge and (B) assess whether the upper…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Secondary School Science, Science Education
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Levi, Tziona; Inbar-Lourie, Ofra – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2020
The conceptualization of language assessment literacy (LAL) is currently a subject of debate in the language testing community, especially with regard to the role language components play in this construct. This is part of a broader discussion of generic and discipline-specific assessment literacy. Previous research on language teachers' LAL aimed…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Knowledge Level, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning
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Werner, Perla; Jabel, Hanan Abo; Reuveni, Yehudit; Prilutzki, Daniela – Educational Gerontology, 2017
Research in the area of public stigma and Alzheimer disease (AD) is attracting increased attention in the last years. However, studies are limited to assessing the topic among adult persons. The aims of this study were to assess stigmatic beliefs toward a person with AD in high-school students and to examine whether majority-minority status is…
Descriptors: Social Bias, Alzheimers Disease, Aging (Individuals), High School Students
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Shapira, Yaron; Enosh, Guy; Havron, Naomi – Journal of Social Work Education, 2017
The purpose of the present study was to recognize the factors influencing social work students' evidence-based practice (EBP) behaviors. The authors sought to examine the roles of attitudes, EBP feasibility, and familiarity with EBP in implementing EBP behaviors. Social work students (161 in total) completed a self-report questionnaire measuring…
Descriptors: Social Work, Evidence Based Practice, Familiarity, Intention
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Moshinsky, Avital; Ziegler, David; Gafni, Naomi – International Journal of Testing, 2017
Many medical schools have adopted multiple mini-interviews (MMI) as an advanced selection tool. MMIs are expensive and used to test only a few dozen candidates per day, making it infeasible to develop a different test version for each test administration. Therefore, some items are reused both within and across years. This study investigated the…
Descriptors: Interviews, Medical Schools, Test Validity, Test Reliability
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Norman, Tal; Degani, Tamar; Peleg, Orna – Second Language Research, 2016
The present study examined visual word recognition processes in Hebrew (a Semitic language) among beginning learners whose first language (L1) was either Semitic (Arabic) or Indo-European (e.g. English). To examine if learners, like native Hebrew speakers, exhibit morphological sensitivity to root and word-pattern morphemes, learners made an…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Second Language Learning, Word Recognition, Morphemes
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Eick, Uri; Rubinstein, Tanya; Hertz, Shai; Slater, Aylon – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2016
Hoshen, the Hebrew acronym for "Education & Change", is a nonprofit, nationwide education and information center for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community in Israel. The main educational method Hoshen uses is the personal story told by volunteers. The present study aimed to examine whether this activity,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Homosexuality, Sexual Orientation, Sexual Identity
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