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Parents’ evaluation of services offered to autistic children
(Emerald, 2018)Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the assessment by parents of children with autism regarding the services provided by the Center for Special Care in the United Arab Emirates. Design/methodology/approach The ... -
Participative decision-making and job satisfaction for teachers in the UAE
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2015)Purpose – Knowledge of teachers’ participative decision making (PDM) and job satisfaction (JS) is important, as teachers comprise most of a school’s staff. The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of teacher ... -
Pedagogical negotiations between conventional and innovative strategies in teaching KBSR Mathematics: The InSPIRE Project
(Elsevier, 2010-01)Teachers’ pedagogical knowledge applied to mathematics teaching relate strongly to students’ mathematics achievement. However, it is known that from the needs analysis study, underperformance schools in remote areas lack ... -
Performance efficiency of virtual laboratory based on Unity 3D and Blender during the Covid-19 pandemic
(IOP Publishing, 2021-01)Testing the performance efficiency aspect was carried out to test the performance efficiency of the Unity 3D and Blender-based virtual laboratory media during the COVID-19 pandemic at the Electrical Engineering Vocational ... -
Predicting the Behavioural Intention for Cash Waqf: Evidence from Malaysia and Thailand
(2017)Cash waqf is one of the mechanisms of charitable behavior in Islamic belief and has been recognized as a way of waqf practice. The objective of this study is to test the relevancy of Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) in ... -
Probing understanding through example construction: The case of integration
(2006-06)Activities that reveal something about learners as they become aware of aspects of mathematical concepts that were not previously focussed upon can be very useful for the learners themselves as well as for teachers and ... -
A Quantifiable Quality Assurance System for Engineering Courses
(2013)Engineering courses represent the core of engineering education. Measuring the quality of engineering courses is therefore an essential component in the assurance of the overall quality of engineering education. Local and ... -
Raising Food Safety to Street Food Vendors in Urban Area: The Langkawi Charter on Urban Health
(Malaysian Association of Environmental Health (MAEH), 2020-05)In Malaysia, urbanization increases urban population through rural-urban migration and has caused urban food concerns due to the increasing demand for food as well as changes in the eating behavior of the urban population ... -
Relationship between entry grades and attrition trends in the context of higher education: Implication for open innovation of education policy
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020-12)Student retention has emerged as a significant and expensive challenge for higher education institutes worldwide. Although several studies have been conducted on increasing student numbers and diversity in higher education ... -
Research impacting on student learning: how construction tasks influenced learners’ thinking
(WORKING GROUP, 2006)Research is commonly conceived as an exocentric process where one person probes the behaviour of another. While in many cases the intention of the researcher is to gather information about the learner, the study described ... -
The Role of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in the Democratisation of Tourism and Hospitality Education
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2014-01)Early educational theorists have commonly expounded the link between philosophy and education, positioning education as a moral, social imperative and public good (Peters, 1966). By contrast, hospitality and tourism education ... -
Role of school leadership and climate in student achievement: The mediating role of parental involvement
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2017)The purpose of this paper is to develop a conceptual model on students' academic achievement that is well grounded in the academic research in the domain. The paper aims to weave together the divergent research findings ... -
Self-Awareness Among Faculty Members from the University of Abu Dhabi in the Light of the Variables: Gender (Male/Female, Qualification, Specialization, and Experience)
(University of Bahrain, 2015)The present rsearch aimed to identify the level of self-awareness among a sample of faculty members who speak Arabic at the Abu Dhabi University. The rsearch sample consisted of (90) faculty members Ph.D. and master's ... -
A STRUCTURAL APPROACH TO ETHICAL REASONING: THE INTEGRATION OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY
(2017)A new approach to the field of ethical decision research is proposed to deal with integrating deontology, utilitarianism and virtue ethics into a unified framework of moral philosophy to study ethical reasoning among ... -
Student satisfaction towards service quality of front office staff: a perspective of public higher education institution in Malaysia
(ResearchGate, 2014-05)The main objective of this study is to assess student’s expectation and perception level towards service quality of the front office staff in five dimensions; tangibility, reliability, responsiveness, assurance, and empathy. ... -
Students’ Perception of the Learning Support Center in Abu Dhabi University and its Impact on their Academic Achievement
(2017)Learning Support Centers in universities play a very significant role in enhancing students learning and their retention. The current study is determined to examine students’ perception of Learning Support Center in Abu ... -
A Study of Problem Based Learning Approach for Undergraduate Students
(Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2012-11-30)PBL approach is identified to develop both problem solving strategies and disciplinary knowledge bases and skills by means of subjecting the students to solve the problem offered to them. PBL is today considered to be ... -
A syntactically-based preprocessor for a limited experimental Arabic document retrieval system
(Creative Commons, 1988)The research reported in this thesis is about the description and discussion of an experimental document retrieval system for Arabic texts, using linguistic methods of analysis. Specifically, Arabic presents difficulties ... -
Teachers’ Self-Efficacy, Job Satisfaction and Job Stress in the United Arab Emirates
(PEN Academic Publishing, 2018)Teacher self-efficacy was examined as determinants of their job satisfaction and job stress. In the present study, 115 female teachers from all school cycles in the United Arab Emirates schools were administered an online ... -
Teacher’s Perception towards Integration of Learning Disabled Students into Regular Class Room – A study in Dubai & Abu Dhabi Schools.
(Science Direct, 2015)This study investigates the regular school teacher’s ability to handle students with learning disability and their understanding and acceptance level to integrate the LD students into the regular school set up in Dubai and ...