EDUCATION

 

 

Publication Record

 

BouJaoude, S. 1999. Scientific Literacy in the new Lebanese science curriculum [In Arabic]. The curricula in Lebanon: Evaluative review, ed. S. F. Ayoub. Beirut, Lebanon: The Lebanese Association for Educational Studies.

———. 2000. Conceptions of science teaching revealed by metaphors and by answers to open-ended questions. The Journal of Science Teacher Education.

———. 2000. Science teacher preparation in Lebanon: Reality and future directions. Science Teacher Education: An International Perspective. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer

———. 2000. What might happen if . . .?: Students use the future wheel to analyze science-related social issues. The Science Teacher.

 

BouJaoude, S., and H. Barakat. 2000. Secondary school students' difficulties in stoichiometry. School Science Review.

BouJaoude, S., and F. Sayah. 2000. Teaching science in Arabic: Directions and future prospects [In Arabic]. Language and Education in Lebanon. Beirut, Lebanon:  The Lebanese Association for Educational Studies.

BouJaoude, S., and R. Tamim. 2000. Types of analogies generated by middle school science students. School Science Review.

Ghaith, Gh. 2001. Learners' perceptions of their STAD cooperative experience. System 29 (2):289–301.

Ghaith, Gh., and K. Shaaban. 1999. The relationship between teaching concerns, teacher efficacy, and selected teacher characteristics. Teaching and Teacher Education. Pergamon.

Henningsen, M. 2000. Triumph through adversity: Supporting high level thinking and reasoning about worthwhile mathematical tasks. Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School 6 (4):653–658.

Henningsen, M., and M. K. Stein. 2001. Supporting students' highlevel thinking, reasoning, and communication in mathematics. Research, Reflection, and Practice, ed. J. Sowder and B. Schappelle. National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.

Jurdak, M. 1999. The role of values in mathematics education. Humanistic Mathematics Network.

———. 2001. Contrasting problem-solving strategies in school and workplace. Problem Solving around the World. University of Turku.

———. 2001. Students' Achievement Study Final Report. UNESCO  Regional Office for Education in the Arab States.

Jurdak, M., and I. Shahin. 1999. An ethnographic study of the computational strategies of a group of young street vendors in Beirut. Educational Studies in Mathematics.

Rhoder, C. 1999. School-to-work: Making specific connections. Phi Delta Kappan.

———. 2001. Mindful reading: Strategy training that facilitates transfer. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy.

Yaghi, H., M. 2001. Subject matter as a factor in educational computing by teachers in international setting. Journal of Educational Computing Research 24.

Yaghi, H., and R. Haraty. 2000. Informatics for Grade Nine. Lebanon: National Center for Educational Research and Development.

Yaghi, H. M., L. Richa, and B. Wakim. 1999.  Informatics for Grade Eight. Lebanon: National Center for Educational Research and Development.

 

 

Abstracts, Conferences, and Proceedings

 

Abd-El Khalick F., M. Haidar, and S. BouJaoude. April 2001. Lebanese secondary school students' environmental knowledge and attitudes. Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Seattle, Washington, USA.

BouJaoude S. July 1999. Constructivism in science education and problem solving and creativity in teaching chemistry. Invited lectures at The Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Rovira  i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain.

BouJaoude, S. April 2000. Trends in science teacher preparation. In the proceedings of the conference on Science Teaching: Content, Pedagogy, and Evaluation [L'enseignemnet des sciences: Contenu, didactique et evaluation] organized by the Center for Educational Research and Development and L'Institu Libanais d'Educateurs de l'Universite Saint Joseph, pp. 24-31.

———. 2000. Trends in science teacher preparation. Proceedings of the conference on Science Teaching: Content, Pedagogy, and Evaluation [L'enseignemnet des sciences: Contenu, didactique et evaluation], Universitι Saint Joseph, Beirut, Lebanon.

———.  April 2000. Students' and teachers' conceptions of chemicals. Annual Conference of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, New Orleans, Alabama, USA.

 

———. April 2000. The Lebanese science curriculum as a vehicle to achieve scientific literacy for all. Annual conference of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, New Orleans, Alabama, USA.

 

———. March 2001. Scientific inquiry in the Lebanese science curriculum in the seminar on Inquiry in Science education: International perspectives. Annual Conference of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

 

———. May 2001. Developing science curricula to prepare students for the future. Symposium on curricula in the Arab World (organized by the University of Bahrain), Manamah, Bahrain.

 

BouJaoude S., and S. Sowwan. March 2001. The use of drama in science teaching: Its influence on students' attitudes and conceptions of nature of science. Annual conference of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

 

Ghaith, G. March 2000. Cooperative learning in EFL teacher training. TESOL 34th Annual Convention and Exposition, Vancouver, Canada.

———. March 2000. Creating a culture for peace. TESOL 34th Annual Convention and Exposition, Vancouver, Canada.

Ghaith, G., and K. Shaaban. March 2000. Curriculum development for EFL learners. TESOL 34th Annual Convention and Exposition, Vancouver, Canada.

Henningsen, M. April 2001. Engaging middle school students with cognitively challenging mathematical tasks:  Classroom factors that influence students' high-level thinking, reasoning, and communication during consecutive lessons. American Educational Research Association, Seattle, Washington, USA.

———. April 2001. Using practice-based materials to support inservice teachers' learning about ratio and proportion. National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics, Orlando, Florida, USA.

Jurdak, M. 2000. Technology and problem solving in mathematics: Myths and realities. In the proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematics Education, 30–37. Lebanese American University.

Rhoder, C. July 1999. Best practices in literacy instruction: The literacy program at Pace University. Best Practices: A Literacy Institute for Principals, New York, USA.

———. November 2000. Mindful schooling: A framework for school reform. School-Based Educational Reform in Arab Countries, Beirut, Lebanon.

Rhoder, C., and J. Delany. July 1999. Language, literature and culture. Children's Literature and the Fin du Siecle, Annual Meeting of The Children's Literature Association
and the International Research Society for Children's Literature, Calgary, Canada.

Yaghi, H. M. October 2000. A teaching/learning model using the natural synergy among cooperative learning, multimedia, and constructivism. Association for Education and Communication Technology (AECT), Denver, Colorado, USA.

 

 

 

Miscellaneous

 

Yaghi, H. M. May 2000. Using computer programming as means to construct mathematical concepts. AUB 4th Science and Math Teachers' Conference (organized by the Science and Math Education Center [SMEC]), AUB, Beirut, Lebanon.

———. September 2000. Constructing educational websites by teachers. AUB, Beirut, Lebanon.

———. May 2001. Net-based education, the experience at Kingdom Schools. AUB 5th Science and Math Teachers' Conference (organized by SMEC), AUB, Beirut, Lebanon.

Yaghi, H. M., and A. Nasri. March 2001. Informatics curriculum and training on web-based education. Kingdom Schools, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

 

 

Graduate Theses and Projects

 

Abu-Zeid, L. February 2001. A study of the self-concept profile of the graduation divisions in the new Lebanese curriculum and its relationship to science achievement. C. Rhoder.

Al-Aghar, T. May 2000. Norming and validating the Conners' Teacher Rating Scale-Revised (CTRS-R) on a Lebanese sample of children. K. El-Hassan.

Harbali, A. May 2000. Content analysis of grades 7 and 10 science textbooks of the new Lebanese curriculum for scientific literacy themes. S. BouJaoude.

Harkous, S. October 2000. The role of text structure awareness in reading comprehension. Gh. Ghaith.

Ilyia, S. N. April 2000. A comparison of self-concept and academic achievement of Lebanese adolescent migrants with non migrants. M. B. Abu-Saba.

Jammal, R. October 1999. Adaptation and development of norms for the Test for Auditory Comprehension of Language-Revised (TACL-R) in Lebanon. K. El-Hassan.

Khatib, Th. S. April 2001. The effect of collaborative learning on the writing progress of 10th grade students. A. BouZeineddine.

Korfali, F. April 2001. At-risk students: Elementary and middle school teaches' perceptions of contributing factors and intervention strategies. M. Abu-Saba.

Maalouf, W. August 1999. A Lebanese hospital culture and its impact on personnel relations. M. Bashshur.

Makki, M. May 2000. H. Environmental knowledge and attitudes of secondary school students in the greater Beirut area. F. Abd-El-Khalick.

Obeid, H. May 2001. Effect of training in think-alouds on the reading comprehension of EFL students. Gh. Ghaith.

Ramadan, N. May 2000. Relationship between beliefs and strategies of vocabulary learning and vocabulary size and language proficiency outcome. Gh. Ghaith.

Sakr, R. May 2000. The effect of tutors wheels as an issue analysis technique on the science achievement and attitudes of secondary school students. S. BouJaoude.

Saleh, L. May 2000. Evaluation of the career guidance program in grade 9 at the American Community School in Beirut. M. B. Abu-Saba.

Salloum, S. May 2000. The relationship between students' learning orientation, formal operational reasoning, and mental capacity & their ability to solve conceptual algorithmic problems in chemistry. S. BouJaoude.

Shihab, M. May 2000. The effect of using web-based hypermedia versus text-based instruction on student's achievement in the classification of animals. H. Yaghi.

Yakzan, L. May 2001. The relationship between teachers' theoretical orientations to reading and their endorsement of developmentally appropriate practice. Gh. Ghaith.

Yazigi, Gh. May 2000. Students' views about global climatic change. S. BouJaoude.

Zein, B. January 2001. A survey of the extent of bully/victim problems in private schools in Beirut. M. B. Abu-Saba.

Zeineddine, A. October 2000. Concept maps as learning tools in freshman physics laboratories: Developing students' conceptual understandings. F. Abd-El-Khalick.

 

 

 

Research Projects

 

COMET: Cases of mathematic instruction to enhance teaching

 

COMET is a teacher enhancement project with two primary goals: (a) to develop practice-based materials for the professional development of mathematics inservice and preservice teachers, and (b) to develop a research framework and line of research to study teacher learning from cases. Henningsen, M., M. S. Smith (PL), M. Kay Stein (PL), E. A. Silver (PL), M. Boston, and C. Heffernan.

 

Supported by National Science Foundation
Completed or in progress at University of Pittsburgh, USA

 

Assessment of high school students' performance on work-related problem tasks

The purpose of the study is to investigate the performance of third secondary scientific stream students on problem tasks derived from authentic complex work contexts and/or real-life contexts. The problem-solving context is a simulated real-life environment where collaborative team work is encouraged. A second purpose of the study is to identify the specific weaknesses of those students in dealing with work-based or real-life-based situations. Jurdak, M. (PL), and I. Shahin.

 

Supported by URB
Completed or in progress at AUB

 

 

Spatial problem-solving strategies of a group of practitioners

 

The purpose of the study is to describe, compare, and analyze the problem-solving strategies of a group of students and unschooled practitioners. Participant observation, ethnographic observation and interviewing, and collection of artifacts are the main method of inquiry. Theoretical and pedagogical implications are drawn. Jurdak, M.  (PL), and I. Shahin.

 

Supported by URB
Completed or in progress at AUB

 

 

Student achievement study

 

The purpose of the study is to provide quantitative data on the achievement of competencies in seven basic subjects of the new school curricula in Lebanon. Specifically, this study aims at (1) assessing and comparing achievement profiles for each of the seven subjects in grades 5, 6, 8, and 9 from a national sample of 5350 students selected by stratified cluster sampling; (2) identifying the strengths and weaknesses in the achievement of competencies in the seven subjects; (3) identifying the differences in achievement of competencies associated with (a) educational-organizational, (b) teacher, and (c) school variables; and (4) establishing base-line data for subsequent analysis. Criterion-referenced tests based on competencies as defined and published by the Center for Educational Research and Development were constructed for each of the four grades. These tests were content-validated by experts and piloted before use in the target sample. Jurdak, M. (PL)

 

Supported by Lebanese Association for Educational Sciences (LAES)
Completed or in progress at LAES

 

Mindful learning: A framework for curriculum and instruction

This research program investigates learning strategies, curricular models and instructional practices that foster "mindful" learning. The goal is to develop a framework for curriculum and instruction which prepares students to be active, engaged, self-directed thinkers and learners, able to use complex cognitive strategies appropriately, draw unique distinctions among concepts, and examine information from new perspectives. The framework will offer a curriculum whose content, activities and contexts value ideas, beliefs, hypotheses, links among concepts, and understandings that transcend discipline-based knowledge. Rhoder, C.

Completed or in progress at AUB and Pace University, New York

 

Mindful reading: Vocabulary acquisition strategies

This research investigates effective vs. ineffective strategies for word learning by adolescents. Rhoder, C.

Completed or in progress at AUB and Pace University, New York

 

The effect of informatics education on teachers' formation

An investigation into the effect of formal computer education on teachers' professional behavior toward the use of computers in regular curricular educational activities. Yaghi, H.

Supported by URB
Completed or in progress at AUB and schools