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Peer reviewedKurman, Jenny; Sriram, N. – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 2002
Investigated the relationship among self-enhancement, modesty, and vertical and horizontal collectivism-individualism, surveying high school students from Singapore, urban Israel, and Israeli kibbutzes. Modesty was highest and self-enhancement lowest among Singaporeans. Modesty related positively to vertical collectivism and negatively to…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries, Grade 11, High School Students
Peer reviewedShulman, Shmuel; Laursen, Brett; Kalman, Zwi; Karpovsky, Sigal – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1997
Intimacy in adolescent friendships was studied with 288 Israeli 7th, 9th, and 11th graders who completed questionnaires about perceived friendship intimacy and with 137 Israeli ninth graders who completed a questionnaire on individual differences in friendship intimacy. Results underscore the salience of intimacy for peer relationships during the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Friendship, Grade 11
Peer reviewedKarniol, Rachel; Gabay, Rivi; Ochion, Yael; Harari, Yael – Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 1998
Assessed the relative contribution of gender and gender role orientation to empathy and its development in 119 Israeli 8th and 11th graders. When the contribution of masculinity/femininity was covaried, empathy was found unrelated to gender. Findings are discussed in terms of socialization of emotions and gender role orientation. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Emotional Response, Empathy, Femininity
Peer reviewedGardner, Paul L.; Tamir, Pinchas – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1989
Investigated are the reasons why eleventh-grade Israeli students intend to enroll for a biology, chemistry, or physics course. Topics, activities, motives, attitudes, and grades in the subjects in year 10 are used as predictor variables for correlational analysis. (YP)
Descriptors: Biology, Chemistry, Course Selection (Students), Enrollment Influences
Peer reviewedErez, Miriam; And Others – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1989
Investigated mediating effect of sex role typing on relationship between gender and work preferences among 192 male and 292 female eleventh graders. Results showed that sex role typing mediated the relationship between gender and preference for socially oriented work values. (TE)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Exploration, Decision Making, Foreign Countries
Download full textAmir, Ruth; Tamir, Pinchas – 1991
The use and analysis of student generated propositions linking two scientific concepts (photosynthesis and respiration) were examined before and after the study of photosynthesis. A proposition-generating task (PGT) was used as a diagnostic tool to indicate student misconceptions and partial understandings. Focus was on determining: how the nature…
Descriptors: Biology, Comparative Analysis, Concept Formation, Concept Teaching
Peer reviewedBen-Chaim, David; Zoller, Uri – International Journal of Science Education, 1991
Presents the STS (science/technology/society) outlook profiles of 546 eleventh graders from Israeli high schools within the existing science, nonscience, and technological tracks in terms of cognition, behavior, and literacy. Findings indicate significant differences between the profiles for students regarding behavior and literacy but not for…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Cognitive Measurement, Foreign Countries, Grade 11
Tamir, Pinchas – 1989
An investigation of biology matriculation tests in Israel was undertaken to assess the use of justifications with multiple-choice items and to compare the effect of three item formats on students' performance. More specifically, the study was designed to determine the: (1) extent to which justifications will differ if the correct answer is made…
Descriptors: Biology, College Entrance Examinations, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies
