The purpose of this qualitative study was to assess the application of online learning during Covid-19 pandemic from sciences educators’ perspective in private middle schools in the Keserwan community of Lebanon. Questionnaires and interviews were the main instruments used. Eight private middle schools were purposively selected to conduct the study. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics through the use of Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS 24 version) and results were presented in tables and charts. Eighty participants were sampled from eight private middle schools. Participants ...

Education plays an important role in fighting poverty and to promote the development of many given society. It is also an important tool for empowering both women and men in the world. Schools in the rural areas of Chad are still experiencing a high rate of gender inequality and this can be testified by a low number of girls in various schools. The study reviewed the existence of gender inequality in secondary schools in Chad, causes and the effects on Chadian society and the ways of advocating gender equality. The research was conducted through the use of Descriptive Case Study Survey Design. ...

Students with special needs often face significant challenges in developing essential social and emotional skills, including communication, empathy, collaboration, and autonomy which are essential to effectively participate in everyday life. Within the Lebanese context, limited resources, insufficient teacher training and lack of educational tools intensifies these challenges and affects social skill development. This study aimed to create, design, implement and evaluate a specialized educational board game as an intervention tool to strengthen social and emotional skills among preschool and ...

Anorexia Nervosa is a severe psychiatric disorder consisting of the maintenance of extremely low weight, restrictive eating habits, purging techniques, an immense fear of gaining weight, and a distorted body image. The feelings of dissatisfaction with bodily image is usually distorted from the ideal image and has a negative connotation. Women with Anorexia Nervosa not only have a distorted self-image but also may suffer from identity crisis/confusion as they live the dilemma of growing old versus staying young, and dependency versus independency as the process of identity formation majorly ...

The purpose of this paper was to study the effect of various classroom-based brain breaks on elementary students’ on-task behavior. A total of 120 Grade five and Grade six students in a Catholic Lebanese school were assigned according to their sections to two conditions; performing a task without doing a brain break prior to it (control), and performing a task after a brain break (experimental). Moreover, the type of brain break was studied to check which type was the most effective and kept students on task for a longer period of time. A randomized t-test was done and the results showed that ...

The purpose of this thesis is to study the effect of reflective journal writing on science learning. Reflective journals are personal records of students' learning experiences. They are an application of self-evaluation of learning. Science, a part of knowledge or study, is based on truths and facts and on rational and applied activities including the logical study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment. The main focus of this thesis is analyzing the effect of reflective journal writing in science; specifically, the effect of ...

The study sought to examine and establish financial management tactics, for school leaders, in private secondary schools in the North West Region of Cameroon. It examined the background to the existing challenges from a global, Africa, regional and Cameroon perspective. A convenient sampling technique was used to select the schools. Questionnaires and interviews were used to collect data for the study. Three participants from each of the twenty private secondary schools were selected to obtain relevant information for the study. The population of 60 participants included: 20 principals, 20 ...

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, ...

This study investigated the role of emotional intelligence on students' mental distress and academic motivation following the challenging circumstances that impacted the country of Lebanon. As the country faced a socio-economic crisis and the safety in the country had been increasing, the study intended to measure the role that emotional intelligence played in influencing psychological distress and promoting students’ academic motivation. To assess these variables, a quantitative design was used to answer the objectives of the study. A sample of 104 participants (n = 104) from a catholic ...

Many students experience anxiety before an assessment: It can either be a normal feeling before any kind of assessment, also called performance anxiety, or it can be due to unpreparedness before an assessment. The flipped classroom methodology was introduced to 20 students enrolled in an English in the workplace course (ENL230) at Notre Dame University in Louaize Lebanon (NDU), for two modules in an attempt to reduce their unpreparedness anxiety before an assigned assessment. The flipped classroom requires students to cover the new material outside of class, and to practice it in class with the ...