College of Education: المرسلات الحديثة
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A psychometric analysis of the child behavior checklist for elementary school children in Qatar
( SAGE Publications Inc. , 2016 , Article)The Child Behavior Checklist for children 6 to 18 (CBCL/6-18) is a widely used, standardized parent rating scale. However, few studies have tested the psychometric properties of this instrument in the Arab world despite ... -
Categorization does not promote symmetry in Guinea baboons (Papio papio)
( Springer Verlag , 2016 , Article)Humans have the capacity to use stimuli interchangeably by forming equivalence classes, and this ability seems to be supported by our language system. According to Sidman and Tailby (Conditional discrimination vs. matching ... -
Primary school teachers' knowledge, attitudes and views on barriers to inclusion in Jordan
( International Journal of Special Education , 2016 , Article)This study explores teachers' knowledge and attitudes toward the inclusion of students with special education needs (SEN) in mainstream schools in Jordan. It also examines the barriers the teachers perceived to hinder ... -
An Exploratory Study of the Factors Associated With Literacy Teachers' Integration of Technology: A Study of Lebanese Schools
( Routledge , 2016 , Article)The purpose of this study is to explore Lebanese teachers' perceptions of the factors determining their integration of technology into literacy classrooms. A quantitative survey examining literacy teachers' individual ... -
Early writing development: kindergarten teachers' beliefs about emergent writing in Qatari preschool settings
( Routledge , 2016 , Article)Writing often begins during the very early years of childhood; however, some children first learn writing when they begin attending school. Teachers' beliefs about early writing development can influence when and how ... -
Face perception in schizophrenia: A specific deficit
( Routledge , 2016 , Article)Introduction. Patients with schizophrenia have a large-scaled and severe cognitive impairment. This study examines whether a well-established deficit in face recognition in schizophrenia is a part of this general cognitive ... -
Gender and age differences in life satisfaction within a sex-segregated society: Sampling youth in Qatar
( Routledge , 2016 , Article)Recent decades have witnessed a surge of interest in the measures of subjective well-being, including mental and physical health, happiness and life satisfaction. The purpose of this study was to determine if there are ... -
Autism in the Gulf States: Why social robotics is the way forward
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference)In this paper, we assess the current situation in the Gulf States with respect to autism awareness and diagnostic facilities, and emphasize the need for epidemiology studies in light of prevalence statistics available for ... -
CORRUPTION AND MICROCREDIT INTEREST RATES: DOES REGULATION HELP?
( Blackwell Publishing Ltd , 2016 , Article)Misunderstandings about the structure of microcredit interest rates continue to generate rich criticism of the industry's high interest rates. Research has focused attention on the cost structure of interest rates and, ... -
The impact of globalisation on society and culture in Qatar
( Universiti Putra Malaysia , 2016 , Article)The discovery of oil and the economic development and growth that followed has placed Gulf Countries on the fast path to urbanisation and modernisation, bringing an impact on traditional family relations and functions. In ... -
Enhancing the performance of post-failure restoration schemes in multi-tenant networks
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Conference)Failure in the physical network can cause a temporal or permanent unavailability of some resources, which can lead to a quality of service (QoS) degradation and loss of revenue. While much work has been dedicated to the ... -
A visual processing advantage for young-adolescent deaf observers: Evidence from face and object matching tasks
( Nature Publishing Group , 2017 , Article)It is unresolved whether the permanent auditory deprivation that deaf people experience leads to the enhanced visual processing of faces. The current study explored this question with a matching task in which observers ... -
Restoration methods for cloud multicast virtual networks
( Academic Press , 2017 , Article)Providing reliability guarantees for services hosted in cloud data center networks is a well studied problem that received much attention from the literature in recent years. Yet, the existing literature failed to account ... -
Women with disabilities in the state of Qatar: Human rights, challenges and means of empowerment
( International Journal of Special Education , 2017 , Article)This study explored human rights for Qatari women with disabilities, challenges and means of empowerment as perceived by females and males both with and without disabilities. The Questionnaire of the Rights of Women with ... -
Examining changes in beliefs and practices: English language teachers' participation in the School-based Support Program
( Routledge , 2017 , Article)This article examines changes in teachers' beliefs and practices over the course of a professional development (PD) program concerned with the implementation of a constructivist-oriented pedagogy in English as a Foreign ... -
Effect of professional development on teaching behaviors and efficacy in Qatari educational reforms
( Routledge , 2017 , Article)Qatar is undergoing major educational reform that is shifting its educational policy toward an instructional orientation grounded in constructivism and student-centered instruction. Differences in cultural conceptions of ... -
An exploratory study of teachers' perceptions of prosocial behaviors in preschool children
( Elsevier Ltd , 2017 , Article)The purpose of this study was to assess the occurrences of prosocial behaviors in preschool children according to the perceptions of their teachers, examine if variations of prosocial behaviors exist among boys and girls, ... -
Qatari women in a corporatized higher education setting: International reforms and their local bearings
( Institute for Education Policy Studies , 2017 , Article)Discussions of the difficulties Qatari women experience in higher educational settings are unlikely to be found in international organization or government reports on the State of Qatar. Instead, recent reports have tended ... -
Amna Mahmoud Al-Jaydah, a pioneer in the struggle for female education in Qatar: A biographical research study
( Routledge , 2017 , Article)Much of the historical data, often narratives, on 19th and early 20th century women teachers in the West highlights the ways in which these women educators were influenced by religious institutions and/or the cultural, ... -
Qatar's LNG: Impact of the changing east-asian market
( Blackwell Publishing Inc. , 2017 , Article)[No abstract available]
