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Qatar’s Educational Reform: The Experiences and Perceptions of Principals, Teachers and Parents
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Macrothink Institute
, 2013 , Article)
This study describes the implications of the massive Qatari educational reform, Education
For a New Era (EFNE), from the perspectives of teachers, principals, and parents provides
insight into these stakeholders perceptions ...
Early writing development: kindergarten teachers' beliefs about emergent writing in Qatari preschool settings
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Routledge
, 2016 , Article)
Writing often begins during the very early years of childhood; however, some children first learn writing when they begin attending school. Teachers' beliefs about early writing development can influence when and how ...
Gender and age differences in life satisfaction within a sex-segregated society: Sampling youth in Qatar
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Routledge
, 2016 , Article)
Recent decades have witnessed a surge of interest in the measures of subjective well-being, including mental and physical health, happiness and life satisfaction. The purpose of this study was to determine if there are ...
Face perception in schizophrenia: A specific deficit
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Routledge
, 2016 , Article)
Introduction. Patients with schizophrenia have a large-scaled and severe cognitive impairment. This study examines whether a well-established deficit in face recognition in schizophrenia is a part of this general cognitive ...
Autism in the Gulf States: Why social robotics is the way forward
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
In this paper, we assess the current situation in the Gulf States with respect to autism awareness and diagnostic facilities, and emphasize the need for epidemiology studies in light of prevalence statistics available for ...
Do Diacritical Marks Play a Role at the Early Stages of Word Recognition in Arabic?
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Frontiers Media
, 2016 , Article)
A crucial question in the domain of visual word recognition is whether letter similarity plays a role in the early stages of visual word processing. Here we focused on Arabic because in this language there are various ...
Self-reported psychopathy in the Middle East: a cross-national comparison across Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United States
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BioMed Central
, 2015 , Article)
Background
The construct of psychopathy is sparsely researched in the non-Western world, particularly in the Middle East. As such, the extent to which the psychopathy construct can be generalized to other cultures, including ...
Evidence-based strategies to support children's emergent literacy in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries
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Psychology Press Ltd
, 2016 , Article)
This study was designed to examine teachers’ reported use of evidence-based strategies to support children’s emergent literacy in Arab countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The study participants comprised 644 ...
Categorization does not promote symmetry in Guinea baboons (Papio papio)
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Springer Verlag
, 2016 , Article)
Humans have the capacity to use stimuli interchangeably by forming equivalence classes, and this ability seems to be supported by our language system. According to Sidman and Tailby (Conditional discrimination vs. matching ...
The Robustness of the Nine-Factor Structure of the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire across Four Arabic-Speaking Middle Eastern Countries
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SAGE Publications Inc.
, 2016 , Article)
The Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ) focuses on the “pure” cognitive components of emotion regulation thought to help people to manage and control their emotions during or after the experience of a stressful ...