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Ali M. Alodat; Marcia Gentry; Hyeseong Lee – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2024
Exceptionally talented refugee students are often underrepresented in allocating to gifted programs because of inadequate identification methods in Arab countries. This study investigates the Arabic version of the Having Opportunities Promotes Excellence (HOPE) Scale for identifying gifted refugee students. Students (n = 13,598) from refugee camp…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Refugees, Identification, Arabic
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Dridi, Mohamed Aziz; Radhakrishnan, Dhinesh; Moser-Mercer, Barbara; DeBoer, Jennifer – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2020
In this paper, we studied the implementation of a course on global history as a blended section of a massive open online course (MOOC) and the learning challenges faced by the students in three crisis contexts: Azraq refugee camp (Jordan), Kakuma refugee camp (Kenya), and Amman urban refugee center (Jordan). The results showed that poor Internet…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Teaching Methods, Barriers, Refugees
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Motteram, Gary; Dawson, Susan; Al-Masri, Nazmi – Education and Information Technologies, 2020
This paper explores the possibilities and challenges of using the social media tool "WhatsApp" to support language teacher development in the Zataari refugee camp in Jordan. It takes a sociocultural perspective on teacher development where WhatsApp is a mediating tool in the broader sociocultural landscape. A thematic analysis of the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Faculty Development, Emergency Shelters, Computer Software
Alodat, Ali M.; Momani, Fawwaz A. – Online Submission, 2019
This study aimed to evaluate educational services offered for Syrian gifted refugee students in Jordanian schools from the point of view of schools' principals or educational supervisors. The researchers extracted validity and reliability indicators from the Arabic translated form of the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) standards.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Gifted, Validity
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Yesufu, Lawal; Alajlani, Sami – International Journal of Higher Education, 2019
The objective of this paper is to contribute to the knowledge on social innovation for education and resource development. The study combined two related constructs: social innovation and the administration of refugees in a camp environment. Existing research has studied social innovation. However, there is limited research on social innovation in…
Descriptors: Refugees, Innovation, Emergency Shelters, Labor Force Development