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Exploring The Phenomenon Of Absenteeism Among High School Students In Al Sharjah Educational Zone, فاطمة راشد الحميدي علي اليماحي Dec 2014

Exploring The Phenomenon Of Absenteeism Among High School Students In Al Sharjah Educational Zone, فاطمة راشد الحميدي علي اليماحي

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This study aimed at exploring the phenomena of absenteeism among secondary school students in Sharjah Educational Zone from students, teachers and specialists, administrators and supervisors’ perspectives. The study applies qualitative research method to gain better understanding of the Students’ abseteesim phenomenon. The study used individual and group interviews at two different schools settting, one school is for males and the other for females, which known by the increase rate of absenteeism. The researcher interviewed students (n=15), male teachers (n=4) and female teachers (n=4), administrators (n=3) in the male school and administrators (n=5) in the girls school. The results gleaned from …


Heat Misconceptions Among 11th Grade Students, Amnah Mohamed Abdullah Al Kaabi Jan 2014

Heat Misconceptions Among 11th Grade Students, Amnah Mohamed Abdullah Al Kaabi

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This study explores the misconception of the female students at 11thgrade about the heat concepts (e.g., latency, conduction, equilibrium, boiling point, etc.) the study targets to i – classifying the misconception nature, and ii- distinguishing the heat misconception from point of the lack of knowledge and lucky guess. A sample of 230 female students at 11th grade randomly selected from five secondary schools in the Emirates of Fujairah; northern UAE. The heat misconception test (HMT), a three –tier diagnostic instrument comprising of ten question is used as data collection tool. The study raises the three research questions. …