College of Education: Recent submissions
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Swimming exercise protective effect on waterpipe tobacco smoking-induced impairment of memory and oxidative stress
( Elsevier Inc. , 2019 , Article)Waterpipe tobacco smoking (WP) is associated with a vast range of detrimental health effects, including memory impairment and anti-oxidative scavenging dysfunction. Forced swimming exercise (FSE) is known to improve cognitive ... -
Attestation of online programs in Qatar: The need for a policy
( Nova Science Publishers, Inc. , 2019 , Book chapter)This paper discusses the prefatory policy of online degrees' attestation in Qatar. This paper draws on the experiences of the authors as consultants and academics in higher education working in Qatar and the Arab World. ... -
Does qatar need a declared language policy? A virtual ethnography perspective
( Nova Science Publishers, Inc. , 2019 , Book chapter)Is there a language question in Qatar's diverse society? This study raises this question and suggests that there may be more than one. Through a virtual ethnography as a research method, this study investigates how the ... -
An integrative model of emotion regulation and associations with positive and negative affectivity across four Arabic speaking countries and the USA
( Springer New York LLC , 2018 , Article)The associations between emotion regulation (ER) and positive and negative affectivity have been well investigated. However, previous studies have examined these associations using a variety of individual ER scales with ... -
A comparison of students with and without disabilities on their perception of services in Qatar?s public higher education system
( Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. , 2018 , Article)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to assess student perceptions of their engagement in tangible and intangible higher education services using the College Student Experiences Questionnaire (CSEQ). Design/methodology/approach: ... -
University faculty?s perceptions and practices of student centered learning in Qatar: Alignment or gap?
( Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. , 2018 , Article)Purpose: Although student-centered learning (SCL) has been encouraged for decades in higher education, to what level instructors are practicing SCL strategies remains in question. The purpose of this paper is to investigate ... -
Feature-by-feature comparison and holistic processing in unfamiliar face matching
( PeerJ Inc. , 2018 , Article)Identity comparisons of photographs of unfamiliar faces are prone to error but imperative for security settings, such as the verification of face identities at passport control. Therefore, finding techniques to improve ... -
Quality of llife of Qatar university students with disability and its relation to their academic adjustment and performance
( International Journal of Special Education , 2018 , Article)This study aimed at assessing the quality of life of Qatar University students with disability and its relation to their academic adjustment and performance. Seventy (70) students, 31 males, and 39 females participated in ... -
A comparison between the effectiveness of PBL and LBL on improving problem-solving abilities of medical students using questioning
( Routledge , 2018 , Article)In daily patient-history taking and diagnosis practice, doctors ask questions to gather information from patients and narrow down diagnostic hypotheses. Training medical students to be efficient problem solvers through the ... -
Parenting, personality, and culture as predictors of perfectionism
( Springer New York LLC , 2018 , Article)This study examined the relationship between parenting styles, personality traits, culture, and perfectionism. Male and female undergraduate university students from the US (n = 168) and the Middle East (n = 74) completed ... -
Towards Improving Kindergarten Teachers’ Practices Regarding the Integration of ICT into Early Years Settings
( Springer Singapore , 2018 , Article)There is mounting evidence that information and communication technology (ICT) has the potential to support children's development and early learning when used effectively, appropriately, and intentionally. In an attempt ... -
عرض وتحليل بعض الجوانب التاريخيه لجامعة قطر 73/1974- 93/1994 مع اقتراح عناصر خطة عمل للتطوير المستقبلي
( كلية التربية - جامعة عين شمس , 1997 , Article)جامعة قطر التي سنتحدث عن بعض تاريخها في هذه الدراسة قد بلغت اليوم مستويات من النمو في أعداد طلبتها وفي أعداد أعضاء هيئة التدريس، وفي كلياتها، وتخصصاتها وبرامجها الدراسية وأنشطتها العلمية والثقافية والرياضية والمجتمعية تفوق ... -
Supervised practice program guided by the Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics standards improves potential employability of nutrition/dietetics graduates: perspective of employers and preceptors.
( BMC , 2019 , Article)This study investigated employers' perspectives on the impact of a supervised practice program (SPP), guided by international accreditation standards on the skill development and potential employability of dietetics students. ... -
Perspectives of family–school relationships in Qatar based on Epstein’s model of six types of parent involvement
( Routledge , 2018 , Article)Establishing a collaborative relationship between family and school is associated with positive outcomes for children; however, little research exists, especially in the Arab Gulf region, on whether the perspectives of ... -
Does the Visual Attention Span Play a Role in Reading in Arabic?
( Routledge , 2018 , Article)It is unclear whether the association between the visual attention (VA) span and reading differs across languages. Here we studied this relationship in Arabic, where the use of specific reading strategies depends on the ... -
Feature instructions improve face-matching accuracy
( Public Library of Science , 2018 , Article)Identity comparisons of photographs of unfamiliar faces are prone to error but important for applied settings, such as person identification at passport control. Finding techniques to improve face-matching accuracy is ... -
Characteristics and models of effective professional development: the case of school teachers in Qatar
( Routledge , 2018 , Article)The purpose of this study was to investigate the characteristics of effective professional development and effective models of professional development as perceived by school teachers in the State of Qatar. This study is ... -
Cross-race correlations in the abilities to match unfamiliar faces
( Elsevier B.V. , 2018 , Article)The other-race effect in face identification has been documented widely in memory tasks, but it persists also in identity-matching tasks, in which memory contributions are minimized. Whereas this points to a perceptual ... -
Does visual letter similarity modulate masked form priming in young readers of Arabic?
( Academic Press Inc. , 2018 , Article)We carried out a masked priming lexical decision experiment to study whether visual letter similarity plays a role during the initial phases of word processing in young readers of Arabic (fifth graders). Arabic is ideally ... -
Policy borrowing in the gulf cooperation council countries: Cultural scripts and epistemological conflicts
( Elsevier Ltd , 2018 , Article)Globalization through educational borrowing has transformed the K-12 educational landscape driving and shaping educational reforms worldwide by saturating nations' educational polices and practices reducing education to ...