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Elsayed, Mahmoud A. A.; Clerkin, Aidan; Pitsia, Vasiliki; Aljabri, Nayyaf; Al-Harbi, Khaleel – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2022
Boys in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia consistently and significantly underperform compared to girls across different grades and subjects, forming one of the largest gender gaps in student achievement in the world. Saudi Arabia offers a unique setting in which boys and girls attend separate schools on a universal basis starting from grade 1. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Males, Underachievement, Gender Differences
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Masadeh, Thouqan Saleem Yakoub – Online Submission, 2021
The development of students' creativity has been a prerequisite for survival in this fast-changing technological age. Therefore, enhancing learners' higher-order thinking skills should be the primary concern of education systems worldwide. The present study aims to survey EFL teachers' knowledge about creative thinking and their activities to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
El-Harbi, Srour Bin Mohamed – Online Submission, 2020
The study aimed to identify the theoretical frameworks of administrative empowerment and its level of reality, its faced obstacles and the components of the proposed perception of the reality for the administrators in Secondary schools for males in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. To achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher used the…
Descriptors: Males, Single Sex Schools, Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries
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Alrawili, Khaled Saleh; Osman, Kamisah; Almuntasheri, Saeed – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2020
Encouraging students' higher-order thinking skills (HOTs) has become an ultimate objective for several education programmes. Being a significant domain of scaffolding strategies, HOTs has been considered as a concern that should persistently be at the vanguard of reform agenda of science. The present research aims to examine the effect of…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Thinking Skills, Evaluative Thinking
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Meniado, Joel C. – English Language Teaching, 2016
Metacognitive reading strategies and reading motivation play a significant role in enhancing reading comprehension. In an attempt to prove the foregoing claim in a context where there is no strong culture for reading, this study tries to find out if there is indeed a relationship between and among metacognitive reading strategies, reading…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reading Strategies, Problem Solving, Reading Motivation
Alwan, Emad – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to: (a) identify which behaviors from the Systematic Screening for Behavior Disorders (SSBD) Critical Events Index occur in male Saudi Arabia primary schools and how often teachers perceive their occurrence; (b) determine the extent of concern male Saudi Arabia primary school teachers report regarding these behaviors;…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Behavior Disorders, Screening Tests, Males