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Change process management is considered nowadays as one of the most important indicators of success and progress in societies. Due to the fact that most school administrations face a lot of difficulties and challenges concerning the management process, it becomes necessary for them to adopt a real change and work on the possible ways to achieve this change. The significance of change process management increases as the modern world trends of education and learning require a change. However, c...
This thesis investigates the effect of stakeholder integration on innovation effectiveness in an open innovation context in sustainable construction projects. It delivers an original contribution to knowledge by developing an empirically validated conceptual model that consists of the main factors that have an influence, and are influenced by, stakeholder integration. These factors, namely leadership for innovation and team identity, were identified and synthesized through a comprehensive rev...
As the world’s environment is suffering from excessive problems people are facing nowadays, increase in levels of CO2 is one of these problems. The building industry is responsible for 40% of greenhouse gas emissions, and multiple solutions are currently taking place to solve these issues. In the construction field, window shading is already an old and common habit that has been used for a long time. Manipulation in these shadings is what is creating new challenges to reduce energy consumptio...
The term mobile learning or m-learning refers to the educational practices in which portable, handheld computing devices are integrated. Such devices have powerful computation as well as networking features. Different types of dedicated software are available on these devices which can be used to perform more complex tasks than simple calculations, such as tasks of solving equations, drawing graphs and transforming from algebraic form to geometric and graphical representation. Intelligent tut...
Universally, STEM education is one of the most growing areas in educational reform. Sadly, it has been introduced in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia without a clear description of its meaning, purpose and framework of application. Even though, STEM is commonly recognized as a way of strengthening mathematics and science curricula, its exact implications is still unclear, for any intervention or modification in any of the subjects related to science, mathematics, engineering and technology can be ...
UAE has always aimed to be at par with the changing world, and transforming itself into a smart government was one of the steps. This transformation suggests that the governmental practices, policies and transactions are all transparent and are aligned with the latest technology. However, while the transformation is a step ahead, there is a lacking of Information security strategy in the smart government framework. Information security is an extremely important aspect of smart government as s...
This study explores the relationship between leadership practices and employee engagement in a "Federal Government" organization (FG), in the United Arab Emirates. The research intent is to identify practical initiatives that can be implemented in organization FG. The main contribution is to identify which leadership practices will increase FG's organizational performance and employee engagement. Recommendations for HRM policy and practice are provided based on the main findings. This study ...
The rate of innovation adoption in the construction industry has been witnessed to have risen due to an increased awareness in clients about the perceived benefits of innovation. Two important innovation examples that have been adopted by many construction clients in recent years were explored, which are: Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Prefabrication. The construction client`s role in the traditional procurement method, which is considered the dominant procurement method in the const...
Public-private partnership is adopted worldwide by governments to procure public projects and services, and to deliver value for money using private finance. This can be achieved by creating a “win-win” situation and balancing the parties’ interests to achieve the optimum risks allocation. Purpose – This study has been devoted to finding out the criteria that influence risk allocation in PPP projects to optimize value for money in public-private partnership projects. Design/meth...
The purposes of this dissertation were to analyze the most dominant leadership style(s) in the UAE, based on the Personality Assessment test results (15FQ+) of the Main Reference Group of 3113 Emirati Employees, and to compare it with the leadership styles of project leaders in one of the Abu Dhabi’s Government Entities, based on these project leaders’ personality assessment test results (15FQ+). It also tried to analyze the leadership styles that lead to highest project success rates within ...
This study investigates the factors affecting the attitudes of Emirati female teachers in the government primary schools in Dubai toward the inclusion of students with intellectual disabilities. The study has used a triangulation of methods including quantitative and qualitative methods. The study answered three research questions on identifying teachers’ attitudes, identifying factors affecting attitudes and getting teachers’ recommendations to improve the current inclusive practice. The fi...
This study was conducted to investigate the views of parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder regarding the efficacy of intervention based on Applied Behavior Analysis, for their child, in United Arab Emirates. Data was collected via electronic survey questionnaire, parent interviews and literature research. Although the findings of this study are positive, it highlighted the gaps in the field and the need for further research in order to create more availability of intervention se...
Assisting learners to become autonomous has become a globally desirable goal for any educational reform. Learner autonomy enables learners to attain long-term success in addition to sustaining the process of learning and teaching. It was first defined by Holec (1981) as the learners’ ability to take charge of his own learning. In the Omani context, limited attention has been paid to this concept and its efficiency, and to its invaluable contributions to language learning and teaching. The cu...
L2 students actively and strategically engaged in their writing tasks. During the writing process the students interacted with various available resources. These resources are regarded as their learning goals and tools of knowledge acquisition. In this qualitative analytical study, the goals were mainly focusing on: a) identifying the writing steps that strong, medium, and weak student went through, b) describing the strategies that these three groups of students used in all steps identified ...
Writing for ESL learners is considered a complicated process which requires a linguistic analysis and synthesis. ESL students are affected by numerous factors, such as interference from their mother tongue and complexity of L2 writing system rules during the process of English writing. This study highlights ESL learners’ writing problems by analyzing the causes of their errors in writing English. To achieve the objectives of this study, the researcher used samples of English writings of 149 A...
Early identification and accurate diagnosis of autism improve the likelihood of favorable outcomes for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Thus, early identification and diagnosis of autism are gaining global attention. There are needs to avoid the negative implications of lack of diagnosis, misdiagnosing or over-diagnosing children with autism. The study aspires to contribute in improving the services for children in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) by examining the current situation...
The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of teaching vocabulary explicitly on EFL students’ achievement. Teaching vocabulary to EFL students has been a major issue for teachers of English as a foreign language that reflects different views and trends in the educational field. Some teachers would like to introduce new words implicitly, while others prefer to explicitly target those words. For this reason, the researcher has chosen to test both approaches aiming to find out how far ea...
Selective Mutism, compared to other disorders, has received minimal attention due to its rarity that consequently makes it understudied and under researched. Therefore, children with SM have been constantly dismissed as shy or having personality insecurities, or other social disorders, inadvertently diminishing the seriousness of their social anxiety. Lack of awareness and positive attitude are the primary factors in allowing the condition to persist and worsen, as the children grow older mak...
The purpose of this study was to identify the attitudes of parents of children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) towards diagnosis and intervention in Dubai. It aimed to explore the relationship between these attitudes and its effect on the academic performance of children with SEND. A mixed-methods approach was utilized that centered on a questionnaire-based survey as well as interviews with class teachers, SENCOs, learning support staff, school counselor and head o...
The present research focuses on exploring work-related values among the multigenerational workforce of the two of the UAE higher educational institutions: Abu Dhabi University and Zayed University. The study is based on a mixed-method approach (a work value inventory-based questionnaire and semi-structured interviews with managers employed by the abovementioned universities), and attempts to better understand values of Millennials, Baby Boomers and Generation X-ers employed within the UAE uni...
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