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Using Classroom Observation to Investigate Productive Student Participation in Higher- and Lower-Performing Qatari Schools
(2011 , Conference Paper)
In 2002, Qatar established key elements of educational reform in schools including national curriculum standards; emphasis on critical thinking through student-centered teaching; establishment of charter (independent) ...
Conditions for Student-Centered Teaching and Learning: Relationship Between Classroom Processes and School Achievement of Curriculum Standards
(2011 , Conference Paper)
Qatari educational curriculum standards emphasize student-centered classrooms where students actively engage in inquiry and problem solving. Classrooms characterized by these elements should emerge as more successful on ...
Political Contingency and the Implementation of Qatarization
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Qatar University
, 2011 , Article)
This paper represents an exploratory study that examines political contingency in a less liberal regulatory regime such as the ‘positive state’ or the ‘developmental state’. As an example of a state-led policy, the ...
An improved method for nonstationary signals components extraction based on the ICI rule
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IEEE
, 2011 , Conference Paper)
This paper proposes an improved adaptive algorithm for components localization and extraction from a noisy multicomponent signal time-frequency distribution (TFD). The algorithm, based on the intersection of confidence ...
Estimating the number of components of a multicomponent nonstationary signal using the short-term time-frequency Rényi entropy
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Springer
, 2011 , Article)
The time-frequency Rényi entropy provides a measure of complexity of a nonstationary multicomponent signal in the time-frequency plane. When the complexity of a signal corresponds to the number of its components, then this ...
Urdu in Devanagari: Shifting orthographic practices and Muslim identity in Delhi
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Cambridge University Press
, 2011 , Article)
In sociolinguistics, Urdu and Hindi are considered to be textbook examples
of digraphia—a linguistic situation in which varieties of the same language
are written in different scripts. Urdu has traditionally been written ...
قاعدة تغير الفتاوى والأحكام بتغير الزمان والمكان وتطبيقاتها المعاصرة
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جامعة قطر
, 2011 , Article)
قاعدة تغير الفتاوى والأحكام بتغير الزمان والمكان من القواعد الفقهية المهمة التي تناولها علماء الشريعة والفقه
على مختلف مذاهبهم وتنوع مشاربهم في كتبهم ومؤلفاتهم بالتأسيس والتفريع والتطبيق ،وهي من أهم القواعد التي يرتكز
عليها ...
Relationship between the heart rate and E/A ratio in athletic and non-athletic males in different ages
(2011 , Presentation)
Introduction: One of the most important effects of regular physical training is the adaptation of the cardiovascular system. The basic importance of the “athlete’s heart” is manifested in two fields, one is the public ...
Truth against truth: American and Arab history school textbooks portrayal of the Arab–Israeli conflict
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Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals
, 2011 , Article)
Textbooks reflect a national consensus regarding the knowledge, values and perspectives that a
society wants conveyed to their students. Through textbooks, students are exposed to a dominant
narrative that presents an ...
Factors that impact student usage of the learning management system in Qatari schools
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Athabasca University
, 2011 , Article)
In an attempt to enhance teacher and student performance in school, a learning management
system (LMS) known as Knowledge-Net (K-Net) was introduced in Qatari independent
schools. (All public schools in Qatar have ...