Science teachers’ interpretations of Islamic culture related to science education versus the Islamic epistemology and ontology of science     

Nasser Mansour 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2010,5(1):127-140

The debate about Islam and science extends to a debate about the relationship between Islam and science education. In this paper, I explore Egyptian teachers’ views of the relationship between science and religion within the Islamic context. Teachers’ key vision of the relationship between science and religion was that “religion comes first and science comes next. I will argue that teachers’ personal religious beliefs are among the major constructs that drive teachers’ ways of thinking and interpretation of scientific issues related with religion. Then, I discuss how teachers’ personal religious beliefs have been formed and influenced their pedagogical beliefs related to science and religion issues. Finally, I will argue, how we use the personal religious beliefs model as a framework of teaching/learning scientific issues related with religion within sociocultural (Islamic) context.   相似文献   

Making On-line Science Course Materials Easily Translatable and Accessible Worldwide: Challenges and Solutions     

Wendy K. Adams  Hisham Alhadlaq  Christopher V. Malley  Katherine K. Perkins  Jonathan Olson  Fahad Alshaya  Saleh Alabdulkareem  Carl E. Wieman 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2012,21(1):1-10

The PhET Interactive Simulations Project partnered with the Excellence Research Center of Science and Mathematics Education at King Saud University with the joint goal of making simulations useable worldwide. One of the main challenges of this partnership is to make PhET simulations and the website easily translatable into any language. The PhET project team overcame this challenge by creating the Translation Utility. This tool allows a person fluent in both English and another language to easily translate any of the PhET simulations and requires minimal computer expertise. In this paper we discuss the technical issues involved in this software solution, as well as the issues involved in obtaining accurate translations. We share our solutions to many of the unexpected problems we encountered that would apply generally to making on-line scientific course materials available in many different languages, including working with: languages written right-to-left, different character sets, and different conventions for expressing equations, variables, units and scientific notation.  相似文献   

Utilization of discrete transforms to conquer the problems of multi-tone systems     

Samir Abd Elghafar  Salaheldin M. Diab  Bassiouny M. Sallam  Emad S. Hassan  Mona Shokair  Waleed Al-Nauimy  Moawad I. Dessouky  El-Sayed M. El-Rabaie  Saleh Alshebeili  Fathi E. Abd El-Samie 《Journal of The Franklin Institute》2014

This paper presents a new implementation of discrete multi-tone (DMT) systems based on different discrete transforms that include the discrete sine transform (DST), discrete cosine transform (DCT), and discrete wavelet transform (DWT). The implementation also considers time-domain equalization to mitigate channel distortion. Compared to the fast Fourier transform discrete multi-tone (FFT-DMT) system, the proposed implementations have an advantage in that their energy-compaction property helps in reducing the channel effects. The performance of the DST-DMT, DCT-DMT, DWT-DMT, and FFT-DMT systems, employing a time-domain equalizer (TEQ), is investigated in the paper. It has been demonstrated by computer simulations that the proposed implementations outperform the FFT-DMT system and that the utilization of the TEQ can lead to higher bit rates  相似文献   

Examining How Activity Shapes Students' Interactions While Creating Representations in Early Elementary Science     

Joshua Adam Danish  Asmalina Saleh 《International Journal of Science Education》2013,35(14):2314-2334

It is common practice in elementary science classrooms to have students create representations, such as drawings, as a way of exploring new content. While numerous studies suggest the benefits of representation in science, the majority focus on specific, canonical representations, such as graphs. Few offer insight or guidance regarding how teachers might effectively incorporate ad hoc, non-normative student-generated representations in their curricula. This study addresses this gap by detailing the relationship between two designed activities—one that supported more open-ended engagement with referents and the other that promoted a synthesis of referents—and the representational products that students generated as a result. We present data from a mixed age classroom (ages 6–9, N?=?32) as students depicted their understanding of loggerhead sea turtles. Findings indicate that students performed better when working alone in the open condition and in collaborative dyads in the synthesize condition. These results suggest that it is necessary to unpack how mediating factors (such as students' cooperative strategies, facilitator feedback and materials used) align, to support or inhibit students' representational activities.  相似文献   

The relationship of exposure to American culture on the attitude of Libyan nationals toward the role of women in the workforce     

Saleh E. Abdalla  Janice T. Gibson 《Contemporary educational psychology》1984,9(3):294-302

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Observing complex systems thinking in the zone of proximal development     

Joshua Danish  Asmalina Saleh  Alejandro Andrade  Branden Bryan 《Instructional Science》2017,45(1):5-24

Our paper builds on the construct of the zone of proximal development (ZPD) (Vygotsky in Mind in society: the development of higher psychological processes, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1978) to analyze the relationship between students’ answers and the help they receive as they construct them. We report on a secondary analysis of classroom and interview data that was collected with 1st and 2nd grade students completing a short scaffolded inquiry project designed to help them learn about how honeybees collect nectar. We explore how the progression of questions reveal students’ understanding of complex systems by examining how students’ progression through the questions tended to become more sophisticated as we increased support. We further compare two complex-systems perspectives, Component-Mechanism-Phenomena and agent-based approaches, to see how each would categorize students’ explanations. Findings demonstrate the value of the ZPD as an analytic framework in exploring students’ systems understanding in terms of the nature of questions (e.g., sequencing, type of question) and multiple conceptual models (e.g., component-mechanisms-phenomenon, single agent or aggregate behaviors), and how this might impact students’ groupings according to their ability and subsequent instructional support.  相似文献   

Word recognition and basic cognitive processes among reading-disabled and normal readers in Arabic   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Abu-Rabia  Salim  Share  David  Mansour  Maysaloon Said 《Reading and writing》2003,16(5):423-442

This study investigated word identification inArabic and basic cognitive processes inreading-disabled (RD) and normal readers of thesame chronological age, and in younger normalreaders at the same reading level. The studyfocused on the word identification processes ofphonological decoding and orthographicprocessing and the cognitive processes ofsyntactic and morphological awareness, workingmemory, and visual processing. RD children werecompared with normal readers on a battery oftests developed in Arabic on the basis of thoseavailable in English and Hebrew. The presentresults revealed deficiencies among the RD childrenin phonological decoding, in contrast torelative strengths in orthographic processing. These data were consistent with English-languagefindings. The analysis of basiccognitive processes indicated significantdeficiencies in morphology, working memory, andsyntactic and visual processing, with the mostsevere deficiencies observed for phonologicalawareness. The results are discussed in lightof international RD findings and the nature ofArabic orthography.  相似文献   

Evaluation of ICTs access,use and preferences for livelihood resilience: results from a survey of Malaysian fisher folks     

Bashir G. Muktar  Norsida Man  Jasim M. Saleh  Mahmud I. Daneji 《The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension》2018,24(4):377-388

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Counselling the Micronesian client     

Mahmoud A. Saleh 《International journal for the advancement of counseling》1996,19(2):131-141

The Micronesian client comes from a strategically important Western Pacific area that bears its own unique culture. To serve the Micronesian client more than adequately, the therapist needs an awareness and understanding of the culture of the Micronesians. The role their culture plays upon the development of the Micronesian and upon the psyche of the Micronesian is explored.  相似文献   

What factors influence students’ real-time motivation and engagement? An experience sampling study of high school students using mobile technology     

Andrew J. Martin  Marianne Mansour  Lars-Erik Malmberg 《教育心理学》2020,40(9):1113-1135

Abstract

Using mobile technology and experience sampling in junior high school, real-time motivation and engagement were explored at four-levels: between lessons (up to 2 lessons per day; Level 1), between days (5 days per week; L2), between weeks (4 weeks; L3), and between students (113 students; L4). Findings for a ‘random effects’ model revealed substantial variance between students (M?=?67%), followed by variance between lessons (M?=?29%), with little variance between days and between weeks (M?=?2%). In a ‘fixed and random effects’ model, we explored the roles of prior general academic motivation and engagement as well as ability and socio-demographics. Findings revealed that prior general academic motivation and engagement played a significant role in students’ real-time motivation and engagement in mathematics and English and reduced between-student variance by about half. Gender (females), ability (high), and socioeconomic status (high) were also associated with higher real-time motivation and engagement.  相似文献