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The Impact of Designing Transdisciplinary STEAM Curriculum Using Authentic Assessment on Transforming Students Learning: A Case Study in UAE See

STEAM education is one of the new reforms in science education that promotes students’ scientific, cognitive, social and psychomotor skills. The alignment of a transdisciplinary STEAM curriculum with authentic assessment has a positive impact on transforming students’ learning as it cuts across the three types of learning: emancipatory, communicative and instrumental learning, that were used as a conceptual framework to guide this study. The main purpose of the study was to investigate the im...

The impact of STEM project-based learning on the achievement of high school students in UAE See

Achieving an effective learning can be achieved by improving the cognitive and scientific skills for the students. STEM (Science technology engineering and mathematics) revealed a wide range of improving student's cognitive and scientific skills.For example, Robert M. Caoraro, Mary Margaret Capraro and James R. Morgan emphasized that STEM PBL helps the students to know how to solve problems. They refer that to the nature of STEM strategy as it describes as an ill-defined task with a clear and...

Elementary Students’ Perceptions of Use of Project-based Learning in Germany See

Group project-based learning is recognized as an effectual method for involving students in a constructive learning environment that enhance their critical thinking, and gear them with the important skills they may need in their future development. This case study has been conducted to investigate the elementary students’ perceptions of the project led education, and its impact on their deep learning of the scientific context, as well as its’ effect on developing their high learning skills. A...

TEACHERS’ PERSPECTIVE ON ENGAGED TEACHING: STUDY FROM AN AMERICAN CURRICULUM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN DUBAI See

Researchers, instructors, and policymakers have focused more on student engagement as a solution to enhance achievement, reduce student boredom, and encourage motivation. To advance student engagement, educators and school leadership must start promoting it as low as in elementary learning. An engaged learning environment requires educators to motivate and encourage students to achieve their educational goals. Therefore, a student-centred approach is preferred to the teacher-centred one. Pr...

Better Speed Better Comprehension: Introducing “Integrated Reading Comprehension Strategy See

Reading skills are assessed in many standardized English language proficiency tests, such as IELTS, TOEFL, FCE, CAE and CPE. Therefore, test-takers are required to employ effective strategies to perform well in the reading components of these tests. Taking this into account, this study introduces ‘Integrated Reading Comprehension Strategy’ (IRCS) and examines its effectiveness on participants’ reading comprehension, reading speed and reading test-anxiety. The study adopts a non-equivalent qua...

The effectiveness of Brain Gym® Exercises on Improving Students’ Performance in classes of middle school boys in private schools in Dubai, UAE(Ethnographic Study Conducted at the American International School. Dubai, UAE) See

School education plays an important role in shaping the personality of students throughout the first seventeen years of their lives. This is why teachers should make sure students are grasping knowledge and are able to apply it effectively in the present and the future regardless of any obstacles or challenges. One of the promising educational interventions that is said to help teachers to do so is a group of physical exercises called Brain Gym®. This experimental research was interested to...

Managing and Guiding School Reform: A review of strategies adopted by selective international schools in the UAE towards reform See

This study examined five school leaders across the UAE, to have an understanding of the strategies they implemented for school improvement. Schools in UAE are being closely monitored by the local authorities, including the Abu Dhabi Education Council in Abu Dhabi, Knowledge and Human Development Authority in Dubai, and most recently, Sharjah Council in Sharjah. The UAE National Agenda for the year 2021 is striving to achieve first-grade education system across the country. Accordingly all sc...

The Repercussions of Leadership Styles on Organizational Performance at Educational Organizations: A Case Study of a School in Sharjah, UAE See

The purpose of the study is to explore the impacts of educational leadership styles on a school and its teaching staff in Sharjah in terms of engagement, productivity and performance. This study presents many educational leadership theories and styles in order to have a background of the educational leadership perspective. The researcher investigates the most common educational leadership styles at UAE schools in order to be able to evaluate the best approach. The researcher uses different...

The Effectiveness of Inquiry-Based Learning Laboratory Experiments on Science Education Students’ General Science Laboratory Attitudes and Achievement See

The research paper is an analysis of the effectiveness of using inquiry based learning laboratory experiments on science education student’s general science laboratory attitudes as well as achievements. As such, the research question addressed in this analysis is to discern the impact of the inquiry based learning model in determining the performance as well as achievements students in such an academic setting. Therefore, the paper will focus on analyzing all the concepts of learning evident ...

The Impact of Multicultural Identities in Classrooms on the Practice of English Language Teachers: A Case Study of Native and Non-Native English Language Teachers See

Over the past years, many debates have been raised over certain variables that have great influences on teaching English to second language learners. Of these, cultural diverse identities stand distinguished in the queue. To hit the main purpose of the current study, a qualitative method is used to examine to what extent the teaching of English language teachers (ELTs) is influenced by their awareness of multicultural identities in classrooms, especially when they have limited conceptions of ...

21st Century Schools’ Leaders: the Lead Teachers’ Positive Influence on the Teachers and the Students A Study in a Private School in Dubai See

This research study investigates the influence of the lead teachers’ role on the teachers’ motivation and professional development, and it explores the influence of the lead teachers’ role on the teaching and learning process along with the main challenges that face the lead teachers in their role in a private school in Dubai. The aim in this study to examine the positive relationship between the effective lead teachers’ role with the improvement in the teaching and learning process, teachers...

Transformational Leadership and Successful Practices during Crisis Time: an Exploratory Case Study in the Context of a Private University in Dubai See

This case study aims to explore and investigate the transformational leadership’s best successful practices that led to lifting the probation status according to the Licensure and Academic Accreditation 2011 (CAA) Standards in the context of a private university in Dubai. Also this exploratory case study aims to discover the effects of the transformational leadership style on the change process in order to draw lessons about successful transformations and effective crisis management. The rese...

The Impact of Instructional coaching on changing teachers’ practice in three private schools in Sharjah – UAE See

School leaders are under a lot of pressure to improve teaching and learning performance and meet the National Agenda of UAE Vision 2021 as per the directions from H.H. Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai. The National Agenda focuses on reaching a first-rate education by being the top schools in core subjects Math, Science, English and Arabic. It also emphasizes on having a high qualified teacher which is the core of this resea...

The Impact of Teaching Extended Thinking: A Study on High School Students’ Comprehension Skills in a Private School in Dubai See

The study aimed to investigate the impact of teaching Exteneded Thinking Skills on enhancing 9th graders' reading comprehension. The skills addressed were text complexity, synthesis, and critique. The researcher adopted the quasi-experimental design to answer the questions of the study. The samples in the study consisted of (38) female students divided into two groups. One represented the experimental group of (22) students; and the other represented the control group of (16) students. Both g...

An investigation of effectiveness of classroom management strategies in a private school in the UAE: A case study at British International School Ajman See

The purpose of my research is to investigate the existing classroom management strategies at British International School Ajman. The aim is to find out the problems teachers face while managing their classes. Through observation, it is understood that teachers who have good understanding and strong bond with their students are able to manage their classes effectively. Moreover, classroom rules, class routines, class environment, class seating arrangement and use of positive language also resu...

Arabic Question Answering from diverse data sources See

Currently, Arabic users are still forced to extract manually the accurate answers of their questions, which is a difficult task with a vast amount of information available on the Internet. Actually, the existing Arabic Question Answering (QA) systems do not meet the users’ needs in terms of performance and scope that cover all types of questions. The motivation behind this research is the need for new approaches to handle all types of questions and answer them beyond the factoid questions. Th...

Using Social Network Analysis to Study Business Partnerships See

Social network analysis is gaining increased interest due to the expansion of social media and networking websites. Network analysis also significantly contributes to the biomedical sector in analysing protein networks and interactions. This paper proposes a new domain for network analysis of analysing business partnerships as an interesting economic aspect. Datasets of business partners featuring trade licenses created in 2015, 2016, and 2017 are transformed into graph datasets with nodes re...

Machine Learning Techniques for Pharmaceutical Bioinformatics See

This dissertation presents a novel drug classifier to automate the prediction of drug indication and drug interactions with other drugs. The study integrates knowledge visualization, analysis, as well as development of a predictive model based on the Drug-Drug Interactions (DDIs) as a complex network. DDIs network analysis reveals unique drug features and explains unknown drug behaviors. Each drug molecule has a unique chemical structure and a set of pharmacological features. This set of attr...

Society 5.0 A human-centered society that balances economic advancement with the resolution of social problems by a system that highly integrates cyberspace and physical space See

We aim at creating a society where we can resolve various social challenges through digital transformation program; the government of Japan addresses the necessity of acquiring a digital transformation of the society. The framework of the Society 5.0 entails an approach which would more human-centred. The key functions of the program include balancing the economic advancement of the nation with the resolution strategies addressing the social issues with the development of a system within whic...