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Unveiling Teachers’ Instructional Self-Efficacy in Science Mathematics and Technology: Personal and Contextual Influences
(2025 , Article)Teachers’ self-efficacy, their ability to efficiently handle the tasks, responsibilities, and chal-lenges related to their occupation, is a key determinant of students’ achievement and motivation in STEM subjects. Thus, this ... -
The Ethical Protocol for Responsible Use of Generative AI for Research Purposes in Higher Education
(2025 , Article)Generative AI’s growing use in higher education research requires strong pro-tocols for responsible use. This need arises from the potential for misuse andthe current uncertainty around ethical concerns and intellectual ... -
Choices and constraints: factors impeding Qatari students’ choice of a university major. A Middle Eastern case study
(2025 , Article)The selection of a university major marks a crucial step in the educational and, subsequently, career trajectory for university students. However, this choice can be challenging for many who find it hard to settle on a ... -
Challenges to Learning STEM-Related Subjects: Insights From Qatar's Middle and High School Students
( Wiley , 2025 , Article)This study delved into the challenges encountered by Qatar's middle and high school students in learning STEM-related subjects, investigating the personal and contextual influences. Utilizing a quantitative survey-based ... -
Examining Student Teachers’ Agency in an AI-Supported Learning Environment: Q Methodology Research
( Springer Nature , 2025 , Article)Drawing on a socio-cognitive framework, we explored student teachers’ agency along intrapersonal, behavioral and environmental dimensions within the context of a classroom management course. The study investigated the ... -
Utilizing Generative AI Responsibly and Ethically for Research Purposes in Higher Education: A Policy Analysis
( Taylor & Francis , 2025 , Article)As generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) technologies, such as large language models, become deeply integrated into academic research, questions surrounding their ethical and responsible use have become central to ... -
Examining factors influencing university students’ perceptions of AI technologies in academic writing
( Taylor and Francis Group , 2025 , Article)This study examines how university students in Qatar perceive factors influencing their acceptance of AI and its ethical and responsible use in academic writing, utilizing the Technology Acceptance Model. By the end of the ... -
Integrating sustainability into STEM education and career development: a scientometric and narrative review
( Springer Nature , 2025 , Article Review)As global challenges intensify, integrating sustainability into STEM education and careers is urgent. We conducted a convergent mixed-methods review that combines scientometric and narrative approaches. Scientometric ... -
Measuring students' AI competence: Development and validation of a multidimensional scale integrating educational psychology perspectives
( Elsevier , 2025 , Article)The rapid integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into K-12 education has created a pressing need to evaluate students' capacity to engage with AI effectively and responsibly. As outlined in UNESCO's AI Competency ... -
The fourth estate's invisible hand: how newspaper media legitimize neoliberal higher education in Qatar and the UAE
( Frontiers Media , 2025 , Article)This study critically examines how English-language newspaper discourse in Qatar and the UAE constructs and legitimizes neoliberal ideologies surrounding higher education institutions and international branch campuses. ... -
Educational leadership for social justice: A systematic review of empirical evidence
( Wiley , 2025 , Article)Educational leadership for social justice is a recurrent educational theme and endeavour with significant implications for creating equitable and inclusive educational ecosystems where all children thrive. However, social ... -
Exploring supports and constraints to school counselors’ practices through Q-methodology research
( Springer , 2025 , Article)This Q study explored the systems of influence on 24 male career counselors’ practices in Qatari public schools along intrapersonal, relational, and contextual dimensions. Results revealed three perspectives, which differed ... -
From values to action: the role of personal and social values in shaping K−12 teachers' wellbeing and professional outcomes
( Frontiers Media , 2025 , Article)This systematic review explores the values upheld by K−12 teachers, examining their impact on teachers' wellbeing and their professional outcomes. Anchored in Schwartz's theory of human values, this study investigates the ... -
Virtual Frontiers in STEM Education: A Systematic Review and SWOT Analysis of Virtual Reality-Based Interventions at the Preparatory School Level
( Taylor and Francis Group , 2025 , Article)This systematic review explores the potential of virtual reality-(VR)-based interventions in preparatory-level STEM education, incorporating Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) analysis for a comprehensive ... -
Pathways to STEM Identity: High School Students' Perceptions in Qatar
( Frontiers Media , 2025 , Article)Introduction This study delves into the intricate relationship between various constructs of student identity formation, which helps comprehend their subsequent impact on students' interest and persistence in Science, ... -
Teaching Sustainability in Qatar: Challenges for Teacher Readiness
( Springer Nature , 2025 , Book chapter)The core obstacle in imparting knowledge about sustainability lies in teachers’ readiness, which encompasses an internal motivation and commitment towards sustainability, adequate knowledge, and teaching techniques, as ... -
Problematising PBL in Higher Education in GGC Countries: The Case of Qatar
( Springer Nature , 2025 , Book chapter)In this chapter, we use Foucault’s problematisation approach to analyse the ways in which the concept of Problem- and Project-based Learning (PBL) is constructed and contested within the GCC higher education context, with ... -
Accreditation and the Standardization of Syllabi: Critical Reflections from the College of Education at Qatar University
( Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. , 2020 , Book chapter)Scholars studying international accreditation practices traditionally assess the successes and failures of such programs (e.g., Collins, 2015; Altbach & Knight, 2007). Still, others investigate the reasons behind the spread ... -
Exploring research ethics through the lens of critical posthumanism in the age of Artificial Intelligence
( Taylor and Francis Group , 2025 , Article)Drawing on critical posthumanism, I attempt to theorize an alternative, non-linear conceptualization of graduate students’ experiences with AI ethics in the context of an educational research methodology course. The ... -
Middle and High School Students’ Attitudes towardDistance Education: The Case of Qatar
( ASR Research India , 2022 , Article)Countries worldwide have been facing an unprecedented virus that viciously sweptthroughout society, drastically changing everyday life. Governments enforced new safety measures to protect their citizens; many ...
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