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Investigating Grade Seven Students' Critical Thinking Skills through Math Intervention
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2016-05)
Teaching critical thinking is crucial in preparing students to face the challenges beyond school. In an unpredictable future, it is the school’s role to educate students to be lifelong learners with the skills to creatively ...
Bridging the Gap: School inspection for school improvement, the leadership role.
(2016-06)
With the increase trend of using school inspection as a tool for measuring school performance, it is only fair to argue that this tool should be effectively used as a mean for school improvement. As the research evidence ...
The Impact of Leadership Styles on Teachers’ Professional Development: A Study of a Private School in Dubai
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2016-08)
No one can deny that leaders play the main role in the educational system’s success. The aim of the current dissertation is to investigate the different leadership styles of educational leaders in one private school in ...
High School Type as a Predictor of Student Academic Performance and Retention: A Case Study of Student Academic Performance and Retention in relation to High School type qualification in Undergraduate Business Program at an Off-Shore Campus in U.A.E
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2016-02)
It has been observed that students from different high school types tend to
show a difference in their academic performance after joining a program of study at a
college or a university. The present research attempted ...
Investigating Best Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment Practices in Exemplary British Schools in UAE
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2016-11)
Educators and educational researchers in the UAE, more recently have turned their attention to how to achieve great schools. The schools that are doing good, make sure to keep creating opportunities to maintain their ongoing ...
Job Satisfaction and Intention to Leave the Current Job among Expatriate Teachers in Three Private Schools of Dubai
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2016-07)
This study explores the relationship between job satisfaction and intention to leave the current job among the expatriate teachers in three private schools of Dubai. The aim of this research was to examine the perceived ...
Teachers’ Perceptions towards the Content of Secondary School Islamic Studies Curriculum in relation to Vocational Islamic Education Values in UAE
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2016-06)
Moral education is a fundamental component of Islamic Studies Curriculum therefore, Islamic
values in relation to Vocational and Technical Education are best taught through Islamic Studies.
This is an integrated way of ...
Learned Helplessness, an exploratory study in underachieving adolescents
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2016-04)
The purpose of this study is to explore Learned Helplessness in underachieving adolescent students in a private school in Sharjah. This study investigates fundamental aspects of Learned Helplessness such as its relationship ...
Impact of a Cognitively Modified Instruction on Vocabulary Acquisition of Second Language Users of Grade 2: A study conducted in a private American school in Dubai
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2016-09)
Human cognition is structured to automatically build schemas when learning is presented in a systematic way. Taking care of element interactivity during the instructional planning can help reduce the cognitive load of ...
Effects of Science Inquiry-based Professional Development (IBPD) on Teachers’ Attitudes, Knowledge, and Practices in UAE
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2016-03)
Scholars and education reformers alike have reignited the importance of teaching science using the inquiry-based learning approach. However, the lack of knowledge and skills about this approach in addition to teachers’ ...