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  • Identifying elementary teachers' stressors and their coping strategies as a means to determine whether stress has been managed in the workplace 
    Sili, Marie Joseph (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2014)
    Many studies revealed that teaching was an extremely stressful professional, and that teacher stress being emotional and/or physical was an increasing problem. Therefore, the study used a quantitative survey design to investigate the main sources of stress among Lebanese elementary school teachers, and to determine whether there was a relationship between elementary teachers’ stressors and emotion-focused coping and whether there was a relationship between elementary teachers’ stressors and problem-focused coping strategies. The study involved 30 teachers who worked in a private school in Keserwen, ...
  • The interaction effect of workplace conditions, teachers' compensation and job satisfaction on perception of work and career decisions: the case of preschool teachers of a Lebanese school in Qatar 
    Younan, Joelle (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2018)
    The teaching profession is broadly acknowledged to be a demanding and challenging profession. Job satisfaction and career decision have been one of the extensively studied concepts across different organizations, but is little dealt with in the teaching community. Research implies that teachers quit their jobs at twice the rate of other professions. Everyday teachers are faced with unjust decisions, not being appreciated, fewer opportunities for professional development, feeling stressed-out and dissatisfied which account to them at times quitting their jobs. Teachers' compensation and workplace ...
  • Leadership styles in Lebanese secondary schools: a case study of two private and two public schools 
    Al Aramouny, Najat (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2016)
    The purpose of the study was to investigate the new roles of principals—as managers, instructors and change or reform agents—as perceived and practiced by leaders in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries and the United States of America (USA), and as perceived and practiced by their counterparts in Lebanon. This study documented how principals performed their new roles by matching their self- perceived and perceived leadership management styles with their behaviors while working together with subject coordinators and teachers to implement the school vision ...
  • Recommending a way to create the climate to integrate technology in a school setting in Aleppo, Syria 
    Rajab, Laina Bassam (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2021-04-22)
    The twenty-first century confronts its citizenship with new choices, opportunities, and challenges due to the universal presence of technology in all spheres of life, especially in education. Technology made a shift in the academic field and created new possibilities that shook the traditional teaching and learning paradigms; teachers and trainers are confronted by challenges that range from the acquisition of skill and literacy in the usage of technology to the delivery of the necessary tools that will guide students to become knowledge creators and users. The overall objective of this study ...
  • The relationship between conflict management style of teachers and the quality of teacher-student relationship in elementary public schools 
    Ghandour, Mirna (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2015)
    This study explored the relationship between the conflict management style of elementary teachers and the quality of teacher-student relationship in four public schools in North of Lebanon. A mixed method research, including two questionnaires and one interview, was conducted. Seventy five teachers from grade 1 to grade 4 participated in the study. The Thomas-Kilmann Instrument (TKI) was used to measure teachers’ conflict management style and the Student-Teacher Relationship Scale, Short Form (STRS-SF) to assess the quality of the teacher-student relationship. After the respondents answered the ...
  • Relationship between emotional intelligence and students' academic achievement 
    Zaarour Haddad, Roula (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2014)
    The following research investigated the relation between Emotional Intelligence and academic achievement in sixth graders. The participants were selected from an Anglophone Catholic school having around 3000 students in the Metn area, Lebanon. The participants were divided into two groups based on a convenience sample selection. The convenience sample of sixty six students, male and female, age grouped between eleven and twelve was selected from a population of two hundred sixth graders. The two groups were selected based on their academic results, 6A high achievers and 6D low achievers. The ...
  • The study of the impact of personality traits on job satisfaction and commitment among employees in an educational setting 
    Eid, Madeleine Georges (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2017)
    Personality constructs have been demonstrated to be of the main predictors for explaining and predicting satisfaction and commitment of employees at work. Employees’ personalities and personality traits play a significant role in their perception of life as individuals in general, and of work life as employees in organizations in particular. This thesis examines the impact that personality traits have on teacher- employees’ level of job satisfaction and commitment. A correlational study was performed to identify the relationships between the variables, where 99 employees (n=99), in a representative ...