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Gifted Classes - Student And Parent Perceptions Of The Saudi Royal Commission For Jubail And Yanbu's Programme, Abdulhamid A. Alarfaj May 2026

Gifted Classes - Student And Parent Perceptions Of The Saudi Royal Commission For Jubail And Yanbu's Programme, Abdulhamid A. Alarfaj

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

This study aimed to explore the effectiveness of the gifted-classes programme being offered at Yanbu. The study was conducted during the 2017/2018 academic year and targeted students in the programme as well as their parents The sample consisted of 228 students and 141 parents. Various tools were developed and used, keeping in mind the international standards for gifted- 2018 /2017 education programmes. Overall, responses from the parents showed a belief 141 228 that the programme provided opportunities in which gifted students could develop and improve their interests and abilities in science and mathematics subjects, while extending their knowledge and skills. …


Accelerating Saudi Students Into Higher Education Programs - Identifying Potential Educational Interventions To Expedite Development, Jawaher Hamad Bin Yousef May 2026

Accelerating Saudi Students Into Higher Education Programs - Identifying Potential Educational Interventions To Expedite Development, Jawaher Hamad Bin Yousef

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

Academic acceleration is an intervention that can reduce the effort, time and cost required for the educational process. In 2014 Saudi Arabia released a new regulation for acceleration (grade skipping) as one of the provisions for gifted students: it allows gifted students in the fourth grade (age ten) to move to the / sixth grade (age twelve), and from the seventh grade (age thirteen) to the ninth grade (age fifteen) after passing several criteria. Although these practices are useful for talented students (Col Angelo et al., 2004), A clear policy for ) 2004 acceleration at tertiary-level education was missed in …


A Proposed Program Based On The 20 Principles To Develop Teachers Skills In Dealing With Gifted Students With Intellectual Disabilities In Primary School, Ahmed Mohamed Gadelmawla May 2026

A Proposed Program Based On The 20 Principles To Develop Teachers Skills In Dealing With Gifted Students With Intellectual Disabilities In Primary School, Ahmed Mohamed Gadelmawla

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

The research aims to introduce a program to develop teachers’ skills in dealing with gifted, primary-school students with intellectual disabilities. This research is based on the 20 principles endorsed by )American Psychological Association (APA the American Psychological Association (APA) in its report prepared Coalition for Psychology by the Coalition of Psychology in Schools and Education (2015 entitled, “Top 20 Principles from Psychology for Pre-K to 12 Teaching in Schools and Education 2015 Top 20 principles from and Learning”. A descriptive approach has been used in this research. psychology for Pre-K to 12 teaching and learning The procedures used include an …


The Saudi Opinion On The Media Dealings With The Covid-19 Pandemic, Lotfi Ziadi May 2026

The Saudi Opinion On The Media Dealings With The Covid-19 Pandemic, Lotfi Ziadi

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

Our research sought to monitor, measure and analyze the opinions and positions of Saudi men and women regarding the use of traditional and electronic media and social networking sites during the COVID-19 pandemic. We surveyed 477 Saudi men and women via an electronic questionnaire. The results show that Saudi respondents have increased their exposure to traditional media and that their use of social media has been intensified due to the pandemic. It was found that Saudis use social media to search for news and information that would help them understand the nature of the pandemic, how it spread, and what …


Social Media And Covid-19 Rumors, Saly Saad Goudah Ibraheim May 2026

Social Media And Covid-19 Rumors, Saly Saad Goudah Ibraheim

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

This study is intended to identify the public's attitudes towards spreading misinformation about COVID-19 through social media sites in the Jizan region in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Being a descriptive study, it depends on the survey approach. The field study was conducted using an intentional sample of those who follow the developments of the COVID pandemic through social networking websites. 300 users completed an online survey. The study found high public awareness of the meaning of umor,' its effects, the reasons for its proliferation, and the potential motives of its promoters. Study recommendations include the importance of confronting rumors …


The Credibility Of Television Channels During The Coronavirus Crisis, Ramez Mohammad Darweesh Abuhasirah May 2026

The Credibility Of Television Channels During The Coronavirus Crisis, Ramez Mohammad Darweesh Abuhasirah

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

The study aimed to identify the levels of credibility of Jordanian government and private television channels, and their degrees of commitment to the criteria of credibility, during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis. It also aimed to reveal the degrees and types of changes in the credibility ratings of these channels before and during the crisis. The study relied on surveying the media audience as a research method, and it used a questionnaire as a data collection tool. The study sample represented a cross section of all Jordanians who were 18 years of age or older; a quota sample of 420 respondents …


Public Relations Departments And Their Use Of Social Media During The Coronavirus Pandemic, Nasr El-Den Abdel-Qader Othman Ali May 2026

Public Relations Departments And Their Use Of Social Media During The Coronavirus Pandemic, Nasr El-Den Abdel-Qader Othman Ali

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

The study aimed to investigate the methods used by public relations departments on social media during the coronavirus pandemic and explain the type of persuasive methods and media language used in the official account of the Sudanese Ministry of Health on Facebook and the most common public relations strategies that were used during the pandemic. The study analysed the Facebook account by preparing a content analysis form for the period from 01/02/2021 to 30/04/2021. The study concluded that 47% of the publications were written in standard Arabic, 56% were concerned with publishing the epidemiological situation and 35% followed logical persuasion …


Audience Attitudes Towards The Spokesperson Of Health Ministries During The Covid-19 Pandemic - A Case Study Of Kuwait, Khaled Alhumadi Alqahs, Fawaz Mohammad Alajmi May 2026

Audience Attitudes Towards The Spokesperson Of Health Ministries During The Covid-19 Pandemic - A Case Study Of Kuwait, Khaled Alhumadi Alqahs, Fawaz Mohammad Alajmi

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

This study aimed to identify the attitudes of the Kuwaiti audience towards the performance of the official spokesperson of the Kuwaiti Ministry of Health (MOH), during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study was conducted with a convenience sample consisting of 1201 respondents, of which 52.9% were males and 47.1% were females, with an age range of 17-70 years (m=34.78, SD=11.75). The main tool of this study was an electronic questionnaire, that included some demographic variables and self-rating items, such as mass media usage for press conferences and audience motivations to follow the press conferences. It also included the MOH's official spokesperson's …


Daily Jordanian Press Coverage Of The Coronavirus Epidemic - An Analytical Study, Ali Munem Al Qudah May 2026

Daily Jordanian Press Coverage Of The Coronavirus Epidemic - An Analytical Study, Ali Munem Al Qudah

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

This research seeks to determine the value shown by the media coverage of the Coronavirus pandemic by Al Ghad, a Jordanian daily newspaper, by analysing the content of its coverage between December 2019 to December 2020. A descriptive and analytical approach was adopted to show how the newspaper's coverage dealt with Coronavirus issues, using a content analysis tool for all types of journalistic editing used during the study period. This research mainly aims to determine the extent of the Coronavirus-related press coverage by the Jordanian newspaper Al Ghad and to assess the content value of this coverage. The results of …


Arab Official Efforts To Raise Awareness Of Covid-19 - The Crisis And Emergency Risk Communication Model In The Uae, Rahima Aissani May 2026

Arab Official Efforts To Raise Awareness Of Covid-19 - The Crisis And Emergency Risk Communication Model In The Uae, Rahima Aissani

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

This study aims to identify the contents of crisis communication used by the government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to raise awareness of the dangers of coronavirus (COVID-19) and reduce its spread in three phases - preparation, initial and maintenance - following the Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication model. The study implemented content analysis for three elements from the crisis and risk communication components introduced by the UAE government. At the start of the coronavirus pandemic crisis, the UAE government quickly drew up a national plan to deal with the crisis under the leadership of the National Emergency Crisis …


Argumentation In The Preface Of Arabic Rhetoric Books, Abdulla Abdorahman Banqeeb May 2026

Argumentation In The Preface Of Arabic Rhetoric Books, Abdulla Abdorahman Banqeeb

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

This study will seek to show the argumentation methods in the preface sections of Arabic rhetoric books: that Abdul-Qahir Al-Jarjani used while consolidating the preface of his book ‘Dlaa'l Alaa'jaz’, and defending the adopted theses, and contradicting the opposition to it. As a result, the study follows three routes. The first route shows the argumentation strategy dominating the preface and is the subject of the introduction. The second route shows the argumentation techniques related to the content, while the third route shows the argumentation techniques related to the figure. Finally, the study concludes with the relevant results.


Transitivity - An Application Of Halliday's Systemic-Functional Grammar To Hemingway's The Old Man And The Sea, Samah Abdel-Karim Ibrahim Mohammed May 2026

Transitivity - An Application Of Halliday's Systemic-Functional Grammar To Hemingway's The Old Man And The Sea, Samah Abdel-Karim Ibrahim Mohammed

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

This study aims to investigate the functional significance of transitivity in Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, depending upon Halliday’s Systemicfunctional Grammar (SFG). Transitivity is a set of grammatical choices made by language users to express their experiences. These goings-on are realised by the verb type in the clause. The study investigates the process types: material, mental, relational, behavioural and existential, with a particular focus on the presentation of the protagonist's inner thoughts and his conscious practices. It examines the percentage of the frequent pattern of five process types in the novel and investigates the role of transitivity model …


Fair Value Accounting For Non-Current Assets And Its Role In Determining Auditing Fees, Hanady Hussien Alshdaifat, Nidal Omar Zalloum May 2026

Fair Value Accounting For Non-Current Assets And Its Role In Determining Auditing Fees, Hanady Hussien Alshdaifat, Nidal Omar Zalloum

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

The study aimed to identify the role of non-current assets’ fair value in determining audit fees, in addition to studying the impact of non-current assets’ fair value on audit fees. This was achieved through different valuation methods and the corporate governance represented by board independence for the period of 2013 to 2018. The study included 50 industrial companies listed on the ASE. 'The panel data was processed using the fixed effects model, and the study found that there is a reverse effect of the non-current assets’ fair value on the audit fees. Furthermore, the study found a difference in the …


Breaking The Syntactic Context In Arabic Grammar - The Out-Of-Context Adjective As An Example, Abdullah Muhammad Hayyany May 2026

Breaking The Syntactic Context In Arabic Grammar - The Out-Of-Context Adjective As An Example, Abdullah Muhammad Hayyany

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

The research addresses an issue known in Arabic grammar as ‘the out-ofcontext adjective’. This is when the adjective ceases to relate to the preceding noun, so that it does not become subordinate to it but rather has a different syntax. This phenomenon exists in the Arabic language but it has not been examined in one single study, hence this paper aims to treat its aspects in one single work, thus facilitating its overall study. Following a descriptive and analytical approach, the paper explains this phenomenon and distinguishes between three cases: the case where the adjective can be cut from the …


Improving Education Efficiency By Consolidating Public Schools With Few Students, Fayez Abdulaziz Al Fayez, Abdullah Saad Alsadhan May 2026

Improving Education Efficiency By Consolidating Public Schools With Few Students, Fayez Abdulaziz Al Fayez, Abdullah Saad Alsadhan

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

The study aimed to review the best international practices for the consolidation of public schools in areas with low population density in order to improve the efficiency of public education expenditure. The study used the descriptive analysis method by analyzing documents from the best international practices on the consolidation of public schools. The study used two tools, namely, analyzing documents and interviews with 20 experts. The study found that the best international practices for consolidating schools with a small number of students are based on a national consolidation manual, diversity in standards of consolidation and its alternatives, raising the awareness …


Teachers And The Regulation Of Students With Learning Disabilities, Tahani Soliman Al-Moneef, Abdulkarim Alhossein May 2026

Teachers And The Regulation Of Students With Learning Disabilities, Tahani Soliman Al-Moneef, Abdulkarim Alhossein

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

This study aimed to identify the teachers’ perspectives toward the importance and effectiveness of the evaluation regulation of students with learning disabilities, to identify the differences among participants according to several variables (gender, major, years of experience), and to identify the most important suggestions for its development. This study used a descriptive survey approach. The study sample included (454) male and female teachers (214 male and female general education teachers and 240 male and female teachers of students with learning disabilities) in schools that provided services for students with learning disabilities. The results indicated that participants clearly understood the importance …


Developing A Stress Prediction Tool For Arabic Speech Recognition Tasks, Eiman Alsharhan, Salah Alnajem May 2026

Developing A Stress Prediction Tool For Arabic Speech Recognition Tasks, Eiman Alsharhan, Salah Alnajem

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

Developing natural language processing applications for Arabic must consider the different linguistic characteristics found in speech and translate those characteristics to script in order to reduce computational complexity and therefore reduce the word error rate (WER). Suprasegmental features are fundamental properties of speech that can enhance the performance of many natural speech processing applications. The present study considered stress as a prosodic feature comprising the prominence of syllables in speech by developing a tool that generated phonetic transcriptions and predicted the stress position. The generated transcription was used to create the phonetic dictionary necessary for developing an automatic speech recognition …


Identity And Participation Among The New Saudis, Desouki Jalal Mohammed Hamed, Ibrahim Al-Husseini Abdel Moneim Hilal May 2026

Identity And Participation Among The New Saudis, Desouki Jalal Mohammed Hamed, Ibrahim Al-Husseini Abdel Moneim Hilal

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

An exploratory study was conducted examining the problem of identity and participation among Saudi youth in light of social transformations. The project combined the quantitative and the qualitative curricula and relied on a field study using an electronic questionnaire with a sample of 1318 male and female students from the University of Hail and the participation of 120 students in focus groups during the beginning of the 2020/2021 academic year. The research was based on a number of international and local studies and surveys, and its conclusions were compared with their outcomes. The study outlined a set of indicators that …


Epistemic Cognitive Beliefs And Academic Help Seeking, Omar Atallah Al-Adamat May 2026

Epistemic Cognitive Beliefs And Academic Help Seeking, Omar Atallah Al-Adamat

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

This study aims to identify the levels of Epistemic Cognitive Beliefs (ECB and the behaviour of Academic Help Seeking (AHS) among secondary school students in Jordan and detect the ability of ECB to predict AHS behaviour. It also aims to identify differences in the levels of ECB due to the variables of gender, academic branch and the interaction between gender and academic branch. The sample of the study consisted of 330 students who were in their second year of secondary school. To achieve the aims of the study, the ECB scale (Wang et al., 2013) and the AHS scale (White, …


Academic Leaders In The View Of Distributed Leadership, Hissah Nasser Al Yahya May 2026

Academic Leaders In The View Of Distributed Leadership, Hissah Nasser Al Yahya

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

’The study aimed to recognise the reality of academic leaders performances in Saudi universities in the view of distributed leadership from faculty members’ perspectives, as well as to identify the difficulties and proposed requirements for improving the performance of academic leaders in this view. To achieve the objectives of the study, descriptive surveys and two questionnaires were used to collect data. The study was applied to 247 academic leaders and 373 faculty members. The study concluded that the performance level of academic leaders in the view of distributed leadership was high. The difficulty levels of developing the performance of academic …


The Role Of Audit Committees In Limiting Earnings Management - An Empirical Study Of Saudi Corporations, Fahad Abdulrahman Al Naim, Thamir Saad Al Barrak May 2026

The Role Of Audit Committees In Limiting Earnings Management - An Empirical Study Of Saudi Corporations, Fahad Abdulrahman Al Naim, Thamir Saad Al Barrak

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

This study aims to measure the impact that audit committees have on earnings management for companies listed on Tadawul Stock Exchange. The sample includes firms in the basic materials sector for the years 2017 and 2018. The modified Jones model is used to investigate the impact of audit committee characteristics (independence, financial expertise, size, number of meetings, and percentage of shares owned) on earnings management. The results show that the greater the audit committee’s independence, percentage of shares owned, and number of meetings held contribute to limited earnings management. However, no evidence is found to support that financial experience or …


Physical Education Teachers And Their Knowledge Of Observation And Analysis Skills, Mohamed Dahy Abass Hassan May 2026

Physical Education Teachers And Their Knowledge Of Observation And Analysis Skills, Mohamed Dahy Abass Hassan

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

Knowledge and information related to qualitative kinetic analysis involve personal experiences, which are of great importance in physical education. Teachers conduct qualitative analysis, which is concerned with the observation and analysis of skill performance, evaluation, diagnosis, and the provision of feedback to students. The present study aimed to identify the knowledge of the skills of observation and analysis accumulated by physical education teachers in the Eastern Province of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The researcher used the descriptive method, which was well suited to the nature of the research. A sample of 194 teachers was chosen from physical education teachers …


Saudi School Education During The Covid-19 Pandemic - The Madrasati Platform, Fawzia Omer Abdullah Alubthane May 2026

Saudi School Education During The Covid-19 Pandemic - The Madrasati Platform, Fawzia Omer Abdullah Alubthane

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

This study aimed to evaluate the Madrasati Electronic Platform (MEP) from female teachers’ perspectives in public schools in Riyadh. It also investigated whether students’ educational level or teachers’ computer skills significantly affected teachers’ views. The study applied the mixed-method approach, whereby a questionnaire was distributed to a random sample of 384 teachers, and semi-structured interviews were conducted with five teachers. Quantitative data were analyzed via appropriate statistical methods, while thematic analysis was used to interpret the interviews and comments. The quantitative and qualitative results indicated that MEP and its tools are effective and appropriate. Technical problems, internet interruptions and difficulties …


The Role Of Social Intelligence In Overcoming Shyness Among The Gifted, Abdulhamid A. Alarfaj, Jwaher A. Alamulhem, Abdullah M. Aljugaiman May 2026

The Role Of Social Intelligence In Overcoming Shyness Among The Gifted, Abdulhamid A. Alarfaj, Jwaher A. Alamulhem, Abdullah M. Aljugaiman

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

This study attempts to identify the manifestations of extreme shyness among students, shed light on the effect of counselling interventions in reducing the level of non-positive shyness, and highlight behavioural indicators that may lead to improved social interaction. The study researchers utilised a systematic approach to study a female gifted student with a high level of shyness that prevents her from engaging in normal social interaction. The study participant is a gifted student designated gifted as indicated by the Mawhiba scale in 2019-2020, and she was deliberately chosen for the purpose of this four-week case study. Multiple resources and a …


The Determinants Of Internal Auditing Effectiveness In The Public Sector - Saudi Universities, Abdulrahman Ali Aljabr, Ayth Ibrahim Almubarak May 2026

The Determinants Of Internal Auditing Effectiveness In The Public Sector - Saudi Universities, Abdulrahman Ali Aljabr, Ayth Ibrahim Almubarak

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

This paper aims to examine the determinants of the effectiveness of internal auditing (IA) in the Saudi public sector. Although there have been efforts to study the statutes of IA in the Saudi public sector and the influences on IA effectiveness, there are still research gaps related to the measurement of IA effectiveness, the determinants of its variations, and to the context of Saudi public universities. The multiple regression analysis reveals that the effectiveness of IA – measured by a new index that reflects the extent of compliance with the Saudi internal auditing regulation - is positively related to top …


The Consistency Level Of Digital Skills Curricula With Saudi National Standards, Abdullah Alfayez May 2026

The Consistency Level Of Digital Skills Curricula With Saudi National Standards, Abdullah Alfayez

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

The study aimed to identify the consistency level of Digital Skills curricula content for 5th-grade students in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with the national standards for the development of general education curricula in the field of digital technology learning. The study used a descriptive approach (content analysis) and a content analysis card. The card was extracted from the national standards document for digital technology learning (reinforcement level 4–6) (Education and Training Evaluation Commission, 2019). The results "indicated that the consistency level of the "Digital Concepts and Applications, "the "Computational Thinking and Programming," and the "Digital Citizenship standards with the …


Meta-Motivation And The Big Five Personality Factors, Hesham Abd-Alrahman Hussin Shanaa, Ezzeddin Daoud Mahmoud May 2026

Meta-Motivation And The Big Five Personality Factors, Hesham Abd-Alrahman Hussin Shanaa, Ezzeddin Daoud Mahmoud

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

The present study aims to identify the five major factors of personality and their relationship to meta-motivation among university students. The two researchers used the correlational descriptive approach, and the study population consisted of 5260 male and female students pursuing a bachelor's degree from Palestine Technical University. The two researchers chose the sample by a simple random method, which consisted of 377 students split between 133 males and 244 females. The results showed that the extraversion factor, one of the five major personality factors, is the most prevalent factor among students of Palestine Technical University, whereas the neurotic factor is …


Modern Arab Women And Traditional Morality, Gamil Mohammed Alamrani May 2026

Modern Arab Women And Traditional Morality, Gamil Mohammed Alamrani

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

This study uses a descriptive–analytical methodology, based on a postmodern deconstructive feminist approach, to analyze the struggle of modern Arab women fighting against patriarchal biases, violence, and the hypocritical morality system that dominate most tribal Arab societies. Applications for the study are taken from major Arab contemporary novels that continue to create strong independent female characters to expose the misogynistic nature of selected traditional tribal Arab societies. Many of these characters challenge the existing tribal moral codes that incite physical and psychological violence against women who are suspected of violating accepted social and cultural codes of family honor. The study …


Laws Of Syntactic Structure And Speech Creation, Zaki Saleh Saad Al-Hariol May 2026

Laws Of Syntactic Structure And Speech Creation, Zaki Saleh Saad Al-Hariol

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

This research aims to clarify the syntactic level in linguistic construction and study its effect on both language creativity in general and literary creativity in particular. We show this by highlighting the most important aspects of objection and consent in which the language originator interacts with the systems and laws of language structure. Therefore, we can reach the systemic, compositional features that enrich linguistic creativity by containing and organising the syntactic system for the generators of linguistic creativity and taking into account the grammatical system for the specificity of literary genres and the nature of their formation. The creativity of …


Saudi Youth And Risky Behaviours, Desouki Jalal Mohammed Hamed, Ibrahim Al-Husseini Abdel Moneim Hilal May 2026

Saudi Youth And Risky Behaviours, Desouki Jalal Mohammed Hamed, Ibrahim Al-Husseini Abdel Moneim Hilal

Scientific Journal of King Faisal University: Humanities and Management Sciences

The study examined the problem of risky behavior, its prevalence among Saudi youth, and the degree of their awareness of it. These behaviors were determined on the basis of academic scientific studies and reports of the relevant international organizations. They consisted of: dangerous driving, smoking, drug addiction, violence, Unsafe healthy behavior, food, and physical activity. The researchers adopted the quantitative and qualitative approaches using the electronic questionnaire and the SPSS 21 statistical system at the quantitative level, and the Focus Groups tool at the qualitative level, on a sample of 625 individuals in Hail. The study concluded that Saudi youth …