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 ...

A minimal amount of research has been conducted on marital commitment and parenting styles. There has barely been any acknowledgment on the importance of one’s relationship on raising a child. Thus, the following study aims to examine the relationship between each of the indicators of commitment in Rusbult’s investment model of commitment (investment size, satisfaction, and quality of alternatives) and the parenting styles (authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive). Participants are married individuals of elementary and middle school aged children in Lebanon who have completed a socio-demographic ...

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 2002 presidential decree on technology integration into Cameroonian schools has been poorly implemented because the decision was not guided by clear vision, policy or implementation plan. The twofold purpose of this research was to investigate the degree of readiness of private secondary schools in the North West Region for technology integration and to make recommendations for effective take-off of the innovation. Descriptive survey design was utilized in three purposively sampled schools to investigate the influence of vision and mission statements, professional development and infrastructure ...

Students tend to take a grade and rarely reflect on their performance. Did I do well? What was the main mistake? Is there anything I need help with? How can I improve that grade next time? That same grade that students get either motivates or demotivates them. If students get the chance to set their own goals based on their weakness, and work on an action plan to reach that goal, their view of the grade changes. They will take a grade as an indicator to help them know how well they have acquired a concept or even reached their goal. Based on that reflection, they will be able to know what the ...

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 ...

One of the most vital rights to the human race is education, especially in a school setting. Disruptive behaviors in the classroom can be an obstacle in front of this right. Here comes the importance of managing classroom behavior to provide the best education to students. Moreover, focusing on these behaviors can help the student in question develop many of his cognitive and social-emotional abilities. A technique that proves beneficial in this regard involves giving the child the motivation needed to facilitate his adaptation and development. One effective approach consists in individualizing ...