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Academic Vocabulary Knowledge and Reading Comprehension Skills among Seventh-Graders in Arabic as L1
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Makhoul, Bahaa; Sabah, Katrina – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2019
The current study attempted to investigate the contribution of an intervention program to fostering Arabic academic vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension skills among seventh grade Arabic native speaking pupils. For this purpose, 247 pupils from four schools in northern Israel have participated in the study. Arabic literacy units that…
Descriptors: Intervention, Semitic Languages, Vocabulary Development, Comparative Analysis
Recognizing Non-Verbal Social Cues Promotes Social Performance in LD Adolescents
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Greenbank, Alicia; Sharon, Assia – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2013
The research examined whether an educational intervention could enhance the ability of learning disabled (LD) adolescents to recognize non-verbal emotional messages and thus their social functioning. Most LD children have problems recognizing non-verbal cues, particularly emotional ones, and have social difficulties. The study examined the…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Cues, Social Development, Learning Disabilities
Student and Teacher Responses to Violence in School: The Divergent Views of Bullies, Victims, and Bully-Victims
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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
The Influence of a Primary Prevention Program on Eating-Related Attitudes of Israeli Female Middle-School Students
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Canetti, Laura; Bachar, Eytan; Gur, Eitan; Stein, Daniel – Journal of Adolescence, 2009
The present study aimed to assess the impact of a primary prevention program on eating-related attitudes in 231 female 7th graders at baseline and following a six-session prevention program. Fifty-nine 7th grade control females received six unstructured lectures about adolescence. One hundred and three experimental students and 37 controls were…
Descriptors: Intervention, Prevention, Grade 7, Foreign Countries
Perception of Competence: Risk and Protective Predictors Following an E-Self-Advocacy Intervention for Adolescents with Learning Disabilities
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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
Efficacy of a School-Based Primary Prevention Program for Coping with Exposure to Political Violence
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Slone, Michelle; Shoshani, Anat – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2008
A paradigm conceptualizing resilience as factors moderating between political violence exposure and psychological distress administered in a 7-year research project yielded a profile of factors promoting Israeli children's coping in conflict conditions. Three factors--social support mobilization, self-efficacy, and meaning attribution--were…
Descriptors: Intervention, Violence, Self Efficacy, Prevention