Education Journal

Volume 3, Issue 2, March 2014

  • A Content Analysis of the Reading and Listening Activities in the EFL Textbook of Master Class

    Ibtihal Assaly, Abdul Kareem Igbaria

    Issue: Volume 3, Issue 2, March 2014
    Pages: 24-38
    Received: 16 December 2013
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    Published: 20 January 2014
    DOI: 10.11648/j.edu.20140302.11
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    Abstract: This study dealt with analysis of the textbook Master Class for 10th-grade students studying English at the 5-unit level. Content analysis was performed to determine to what extent the activities in the reading and listening units emphasize high and low-level thinking. The study attempted to answer the following questions: 1. To what extent are the... Show More
  • External Marketing Strategies and Public Relations for Elementary Schools in Central Taiwan

    Chih-Lun Hung, Ching-Hui Yang

    Issue: Volume 3, Issue 2, March 2014
    Pages: 39-47
    Received: 30 December 2013
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    Published: 20 January 2014
    DOI: 10.11648/j.edu.20140302.12
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    Abstract: This study investigates the current external marketing strategies and school public relations for elementary schools in Taiwan and their correlation. The collected data were analyzed and processed using a Pearson’s product-moment correlation, canonical correlation, and multiple regression statistical methods. The analysis results indicated the mark... Show More
  • The Junior High Students’ Awareness Level of the Reproductive Health Concepts in Gaza

    Fathia Sobhi Alloolo, Roba AL- Sayed Abu Kmail

    Issue: Volume 3, Issue 2, March 2014
    Pages: 48-56
    Received: 09 October 2013
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    Published: 30 January 2014
    DOI: 10.11648/j.edu.20140302.13
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    Abstract: This study aims to identify the junior high students’ awareness level of the reproductive health concepts in Gaza. To answer the questions of the study and verify its hypotheses, the researchers have implemented the descriptive approach. They have also prepared a list of reproductive health concepts, a test to measure the cognitive aspects, and an ... Show More
  • A Proposed Model for Evaluating the Quality of Online Programs and Courses: The Case of the University of Tabuk

    Mohammed Mfarij F. Alhawiti

    Issue: Volume 3, Issue 2, March 2014
    Pages: 57-70
    Received: 27 December 2013
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    Published: 30 January 2014
    DOI: 10.11648/j.edu.20140302.14
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    Abstract: This research is focused on developing an e-learning model that can be used by academic departments and colleges in the University of Tabuk and other Saudi universities to monitor and evaluate the quality of their distance education programs and courses. Although extensive research has been done in the U.S. and other countries regarding distance ed... Show More
  • Saudi Women: Opportunities and Challenges in Science and Technology

    Samira Ibrahim Islam

    Issue: Volume 3, Issue 2, March 2014
    Pages: 71-78
    Received: 01 January 2014
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    Published: 30 January 2014
    DOI: 10.11648/j.edu.20140302.15
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    Abstract: Women inequality is one of the issues used to criticize the policy in Islamic World. Social inequality fueled the outbreak of the Arab Spring. Ongoing plight across Arab counties had not achieved successful resolution. King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz focused on modernizing the deeply conservative Saudi society, governed by Sharia'a law, through Science... Show More
  • Emotional Changes and Implications for the Use of Drugs in Licit and Illicit in Education of Youth and Adults

    Nascimento, L., Rodbari, R. J., Jamshidi, A. L. C. L.

    Issue: Volume 3, Issue 2, March 2014
    Pages: 79-83
    Received: 03 January 2014
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    Published: 20 February 2014
    DOI: 10.11648/j.edu.20140302.16
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    Abstract: This article discusses the emotional changes caused by the consumption of licit and illicit drugs in people, and the consequences on health and psychosocial aspects. This study demonstrates the influence and role as the drug has on the user to commit crime, which is one of the main problems in our society and to identify what the best policy to be ... Show More
  • Gender Effect of Multiple Solution Method in High School Physics Learning

    Chi-Jen Lin, Ming-Hong Chiu

    Issue: Volume 3, Issue 2, March 2014
    Pages: 84-89
    Received: 15 January 2014
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    Published: 20 February 2014
    DOI: 10.11648/j.edu.20140302.17
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    Abstract: Physics instruction is difficult, especially for advanced knowledge acquisition. In the literature, many effective improvements on physics instruction were reported. On the other hand, multiple solution methods were considered as effective pedagogy for advanced knowledge acquisition, but there were only limited controlled studies on such methods. T... Show More
  • The Effect of Mathematical Misconception on Students’ Success in Kinematics Teaching

    Mehmet Erdoğan, Abdullah Kurudirek, Hüseyin Akça

    Issue: Volume 3, Issue 2, March 2014
    Pages: 90-94
    Received: 06 January 2014
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    Published: 20 February 2014
    DOI: 10.11648/j.edu.20140302.18
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    Abstract: There have been many investigations into the factors that underlie variations in individual student performance in high school physics courses. Numerous studies report a positive correlation between students’ mathematical skills and their exam grades in high school physics The purpose of my study was to determine the effect of mathematical misconce... Show More
  • Prostitution as a Political Social Human Behavior, and Educational Inequalities in Society

    Rodbari, R. J., Jamshidi, A. L. C. L., Nascimento, L.

    Issue: Volume 3, Issue 2, March 2014
    Pages: 95-100
    Received: 05 January 2014
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    Published: 28 February 2014
    DOI: 10.11648/j.edu.20140302.19
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    Abstract: This present study is an analysis of the factors that strongly influence the way people choose prostitution as a choice of their own lives. But, there is a predominance of diversity of looks of a society with social concepts and principles coordinate human behaviors. Some sectors of society, consider prostitution an evil that should the control for... Show More
  • Nature and Structure of Virtual Education: An Approach from the Fractality

    Osbaldo Turpo Gebera, Ma. Cruz Gomez Sánchez, Beatriz Palacios Vicario

    Issue: Volume 3, Issue 2, March 2014
    Pages: 101-110
    Received: 13 September 2013
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    Published: 10 March 2014
    DOI: 10.11648/j.edu.20140302.20
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    Abstract: The potential generated by ICT in education raises reflect on the underlying frameworks. In this sense, the fractality is an opportunity to explain how it organizes and manages virtual education. This approach recognizes that educational dynamics are recursive and iterative processes instituted as progressive sequences, by way of fractals. This und... Show More
  • English Blog Writing---An Effective Way in College EFL Writing Teaching

    Qin LI

    Issue: Volume 3, Issue 2, March 2014
    Pages: 111-115
    Received: 28 February 2014
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    Published: 20 March 2014
    DOI: 10.11648/j.edu.20140302.21
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    Abstract: English blog writing, a newly-applied communicative method based on the Internet provides a suitable and practical platform to remedy the traditional EFL (English as a Foreign Language) writing teaching. This paper tends to illustrate the importance and necessity of English blog writing by presenting the practical stages and reporting a case study ... Show More
  • Dynamic Context and Cultivation of Communicative Competence

    Xueyan Hu

    Issue: Volume 3, Issue 2, March 2014
    Pages: 116-121
    Received: 06 March 2014
    Accepted: 16 April 2014
    Published: 20 April 2014
    DOI: 10.11648/j.edu.20140302.22
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    Abstract: Communicative competence is not confined to the communicators’ ability to make their utterance adapt to the context, because communicators take a leading position in dynamic process of communication. In order to make the communication successful, communicators should also learn to take advantage of the dynamic properties of context to select the mo... Show More