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الحكمة ومكوناتها وقياسها مراجعه منتظمة للأدبيات: A Systematic Review of Research on Wisdom: Its Components and Measurement
No full textتهدف هذه الدراسة إلى البحث عن مفهوم الحكمة، ومكوناتها، والطرق والأدوات المستعملة لقياسها، وذلك من خلال اتباع منهجية التحليل والمراجعة المنتظمة للبحوث العلمية المحكمة في قواعد البيانات والمجلات العلمية المحكمة. وبناء على المعايير التي تم تبنيها فقد تم الإطلاع على 206 بحثا ومقاله علمية و تم التوصل إلى اختيار 30 بحثام منها والتي تم تلبيتها لمعايير التحليل. وأظهرت النتائج، وبالرغم من التباين في التعريفات والمكونات، وجود تطابق إلى حد كبير في التعريفات والمكونات عبر البحوث الـ 30 التي تمت مراجعتها. أما فيما يتعلق بأدوات القياس للحكمة فقد تباينت إلا أنه يمكن القول أن أسلوبي التقرير الذاتي وقياس الأداء هما الشائعان واللذان يمكن الاعتماد عليهما. أوصت الدراسة إلى المزيد من التوضيح و البحث عن الحكمة عبر عينات متنوعة بالإضافة إلى تطوير أدوات تقييم متعددة الوسائط صالحة نظريًا ونفسيًا لتعزيز الدراسة العلمية الدقيقة لهذا البناء المعقدتهدف هذه الدراسة إلى البحث عن مفهوم الحكمة، ومكوناتها، والطرق والأدوات المستعملة لقياسها، وذلك من خلال اتباع منهجية التحليل والمراجعة المنتظمة للبحوث العلمية المحكمة في قواعد البيانات والمجلات العلمية المحكمة. وبناء على المعايير التي تم تبنيها فقد تم الإطلاع على 206 بحثا ومقاله علمية و تم التوصل إلى اختيار 30 بحثام منها والتي تم تلبيتها لمعايير التحليل. وأظهرت النتائج، وبالرغم من التباين في التعريفات والمكونات، وجود تطابق إلى حد كبير في التعريفات والمكونات عبر البحوث الـ 30 التي تمت مراجعتها. أما فيما يتعلق بأدوات القياس للحكمة فقد تباينت إلا أنه يمكن القول أن أسلوبي التقرير الذاتي وقياس الأداء هما الشائعان واللذان يمكن الاعتماد عليهما. أوصت الدراسة إلى المزيد من التوضيح و البحث عن الحكمة عبر عينات متنوعة بالإضافة إلى تطوير أدوات تقييم متعددة الوسائط صالحة نظريًا ونفسيًا لتعزيز الدراسة العلمية الدقيقة لهذا البناء المعق
Teaching Lab-based Courses Remotely: Approaches, Technologies, Challenges, and Ethical Issues
Get PDFOnline learning has gained substantial traction since the popularization of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) over the last decade. After the dawn of the Covid-19 pandemic, online learning has become an indispensable mode of modern-day education. All educational institutions around the world are now compelled to switch to online classes as a physically safer and more flexible option for teaching and learning during the pandemic. Although many studies have examined the effectiveness of this online T&L mode, almost no attention has been paid to the use of virtual laboratories, which are an important means of teaching practical skills and complicated theories for science and engineering subjects. Like other online methods that have their particular advantages and disadvantages, the utility of virtual laboratories is detracted by the fact that they lack some of the qualities present in the actual experiments seen in traditional learning classrooms. In particular, virtual labs are not as effective as authentic lab experiments in developing soft skills that are typically acquired from students’ teamwork activities, in addition to lacking the ability to assess the various levels of knowledge acquisition, content mastery and student attention in class. Hence, the aim of this paper is to address these issues about the utility and drawbacks of virtual labs in achieving the long-term goals and learning outcomes of STEM education. In addressing these issues, the paper highlights the varying technologies, such as gaming and virtual reality, used by different educational institutions as substitutes for physical engineering laboratories. The final section of the paper discusses some of the ethical issues related to online learning for science and engineering subjects
التماثل التنظيمي لدى معلمي مدارس التعليم الأساسي في سلطنة عمان: الممارسة والفروق الديمغرافية: Organizational Identification (OI) among Basic Education School Teachers in Oman: Prevalence and Demographic Differences
No full textهدفت الدراسة الى التعرف على مستوى التماثل التنظيمي لدى معلمي مدارس التعليم الاساسي في سلطنة عمان واستقصاء الفروق لبعض المتغيرات الديمغرافية. لتحقيق أهداف الدراسة، تم تبني المنهج الوصفي المسحي واستخدام مقياس مستوى التماثل التنظيمي بعد التأكد من صدقه وثباته. وزع المقياس لعينة طبقية عشوائية تكونت من 846 معلم ومعلمة. تم استخدام الإحصاء الوصفي ( المتوسطات الحسابية والانحرافات المعيارية) لتحديد مستوى التماثل التنظيمي لدى أفراد العينة، وكذلك الإحصاء الاستدلالي (اختبار ت للعينات المستقلة واختبار تحليل التباين الأحادي) لتحديد الفروق الاحصائية ذات الدلالة في مستوى التماثل التنظيمي حسب متغيرات ديموقرافية. وقد أظهرت النتائج أن مستوى التماثل التنظيمي لدى عينة الدراسة مرتفع، و وجود فروق دالة في المستوى يعزى لمتغير النوع الاجتماعي؛ ولم تظهر فروق في مستوى التماثل التنظيمي لمتغيري المؤهل والخبرة، تقدم هذه الدراسة مجموعة من التوصيات لوزارة التربية والتعليم العمانية تهدف إلى تعزيز التماثل التنظيمي لدى معلمي المدارس والذي بدوره سيُساعد في تحسين الاداء المدرسيهدفت الدراسة الى التعرف على مستوى التماثل التنظيمي لدى معلمي مدارس التعليم الاساسي في سلطنة عمان واستقصاء الفروق لبعض المتغيرات الديمغرافية. لتحقيق أهداف الدراسة، تم تبني المنهج الوصفي المسحي واستخدام مقياس مستوى التماثل التنظيمي بعد التأكد من صدقه وثباته. وزع المقياس لعينة طبقية عشوائية تكونت من 846 معلم ومعلمة. تم استخدام الإحصاء الوصفي ( المتوسطات الحسابية والانحرافات المعيارية) لتحديد مستوى التماثل التنظيمي لدى أفراد العينة، وكذلك الإحصاء الاستدلالي (اختبار ت للعينات المستقلة واختبار تحليل التباين الأحادي) لتحديد الفروق الاحصائية ذات الدلالة في مستوى التماثل التنظيمي حسب متغيرات ديموقرافية. وقد أظهرت النتائج أن مستوى التماثل التنظيمي لدى عينة الدراسة مرتفع، و وجود فروق دالة في المستوى يعزى لمتغير النوع الاجتماعي؛ ولم تظهر فروق في مستوى التماثل التنظيمي لمتغيري المؤهل والخبرة، تقدم هذه الدراسة مجموعة من التوصيات لوزارة التربية والتعليم العمانية تهدف إلى تعزيز التماثل التنظيمي لدى معلمي المدارس والذي بدوره سيُساعد في تحسين الاداء المدرسي
Perceived Postgraduate Research Supervisory Practices and Satisfaction towards Supervision among Supervisees at Faculty of Education
Get PDFEffective supervision received by postgraduate students boosts their motivation to produce a high quality research. This paper looks at the perceived postgraduate research supervisory practices and satisfaction towards supervision among supervisees at Faculty of Education in a Malaysian public university. Data was collected through a questionnaire on the sample of 45 Part 3 full-time Master’s degree (Coursework) students. However, only 33 sets of questionnaires were returned to the researchers (response rate=94.3%). It was found that most supervisees perceived that their dissertation supervisors have continually applied various supervisory practices during the supervision session and they were very satisfied with the supervision that they have received. Furthermore, there was a positive, strong, and significant relationship between the perceived supervisory practices and supervisees’ satisfaction. Nevertheless, there were no significant differences between perceived supervisory practices and courses, as well as between perceived supervisory practices and frequency of meeting. As for the implications of this study, it contributes to the corpus of knowledge in the area of postgraduate supervision in local higher education institution context and provides empirical data to assist the Ministry of Education in conducting strategic planning to enhance implementation of effective supervisory practices among postgraduate research supervisors
Counselors’ Supervision: What Helps to Express Their Thoughts?
Get PDFThe counseling practicum provides an opportunity for counselors to explore and practice their acquired skills in the actual work setting. Confronting the practicum site, at the outset, it is not uncommon for the practicum counselor to experience great anxiety and trepidation, faced with many challenges and uncertainties, that may linger throughout the course of the practicum. This study is conducted to explore these predicaments, using creative activities as a platform to share their concerns and worries in coping with practicum issues. Thirty participants, 3 males and 27 females, who were attached as practicum counsellors, participated in the study. Data were triangulated from three different sources: from the process journals, scheduled guided journals and drawing activities done during the supervision meetings. Scheduled guided reflective journals refer to the journals that provide a guiding question to respond with the purpose to meet the immediate needs at certain phases of the practicum journey. Journals are scheduled at 4 different phases of the practicum. A Reflective Process journal is one of the tasks done immediately upon the completion of each activity to reflect on the immediate reactions of participants to the activities conducted. Based on the findings, the challenges were categorized into six major themes: Interpersonal relationship, Inadequate Skills, the real Clients, Direct Contact Hours, Report and Documentation and Counselling facilities. The practicum counselors’ source of coping can be either internal or external support, or both. The drawing activities during the weekly supervision helped practicum counselors release their tension; whereas the weekly meetings are Stress Releasers for them. Stress during the practicum may be inevitable but the continuous support throughout the supervision and the creativity in providing the platforms and means to enable the practicum counsellors to release and express their issues and concerns, thus helping them cope better through the practicum journey
The Counseling Challenges Facing Muslim Clients across the World
Get PDFThis systematic review is conducted with the major aim of highlighting the need for a comprehensive and modern Islamic counselling Model, due to the psychological challenges facing Muslim clients across the world. The main source of data collection in the research is past empirical studies related to the field of counselling as it affects Muslim countries. The study found, from the extant literature reviewed, that there is a high incidence of psychological problems among Muslim populated countries, especially the crises-ridden and turbulent regions such as Syria, Yemen, Palestine and others, as well as among the Muslim minority groups in some countries, such as the US, the UK and other European countries. It was discovered from the literature that the major causes of mental health problems are: lack of the fear of God, wars, poverty, natural disasters, political unrest, discrimination and Islamophobic tendencies. In this regard, the study highlights the need for research and action plans that focus on the well-being of Muslims in the entire global community. It is imperative that Muslims require professional assistance from specially trained counsellors equipped with culturally and Islamically-relevant skills for the mitigation of mental distress and depression. The need for a comprehensive Islamic counselling model that matches and competes with the western-oriented counselling models, is proposed. For precisely this purpose, therefore, the Al-Ghazali counselling model has been recently developed, which is compatible and commensurate with modern scientific therapeutic techniques, and is found to be a highly promising intervention for clients with mental and psychological challenges
Aspirational Ethics as a Contributing Factor in Engineering Students’ Ethical Awareness and Behavior
Get PDFAs ethical behavior is a part of engineers' professional identity and practice, developing ethical behavior skills in future engineers is a vital component of the engineering curriculum. There are already established instructional methods to teach engineering ethics (EE), however, it is concentrated on ethical awareness, and little attention has been given to how this will affect the ethical behavior. Even though students are capable of exercising ethical judgment, it does not mean that they are ethically literate or likely to act ethically. The assessment of engineering ethics cannot be conducted based on ethical judgment, because the ethical awareness of some engineers has not translated into ethical behavior. An alternative instructional method for measuring the ethical behavior is required to see how the ethical awareness given in the classroom setting is translated to the actual ethical behavior. Therefore, the focus of this paper is to propose an instructional method that correlates with both ethical awareness and ethical behavior, through aspirational ethics which require the students to contribute to the society. This method integrates the theory of morals and values, ethical and unethical conduct, code of practices of an engineer, ethics with the environment, and the responsibility of the engineer for the safety of everybody. Students’ ethical behavior in the society will be demonstrated through the University Social Responsibility (USR) projects. From these projects, the students’ ethical behavior is assessed by their peers, beneficiaries that they are serving, as well as by the educators, regarding their ethical conduct. This will be the tools to observe the degree of correlations between the ethical awareness instilled and behavior manifested. Applying these instructional methods will allow educators to build confidence and trust in their students' ability to build a professional identity and be prepared for the engineering profession and practice
Tahfiz Students’ Experiences in Memorizing the Qur’an: Unveiling Their Motivating Factors and Challenges
Get PDFThis qualitative case study explores the factors behind Tahfiz secondary school students’ motivation to undertake the challenging task of memorizing the Qur’an and the challenges they experienced. The participants were six (6) Tahfiz students (three boys and three girls), aged between 15 and 17, who were enrolled in the Tahfiz Al-Qur’an program in two public secondary schools in Gombak and Bangi. The participants were selected by their teachers through purposeful sampling and had been engaged in Qur’an memorization for at least 2 years at the onset of the study. In-depth, semi-structured one-on-one interviews were conducted to examine their views about the factors that motivated them to memorize the Qur’an and the difficulties they faced. The findings pointed to three distinct categories of motivating factors: the students themselves, teachers and parents. In particular, parental guidance and advice were the most influential elements in students’ motivation to memorize the Qur’an. Among the challenges faced were time constraint, inability to remember verses, strict disciplinary rules and external noise that made the memorizing task difficult. In general, this study has shown the instrumental role of motivation in influencing Tahfiz students' memorization of the Qur’an
Arabic Language Phoneme Pronunciation Difficulties Among Upper Basic Hausa-Speaking Students in Kano State, Nigeria
Get PDFIn the process of learning a foreign language, there are some indispensable learning problems, especially in the pronunciation aspect. Therefore, this study investigated Arabic Language phoneme pronunciation difficulties among Upper Basic Hausa-speaking Arabic Language students in Kano State, Nigeria. The total population for the study was all Upper Basic Hausa-speaking students of Arabic in Kano State, Nigeria. Two hundred (200) Hausa-speaking Arabic students were sampled from the 3 senatorial districts in the state involving 9 Local Government Areas using multistage sampling procedure. A Pronunciation Test adapted from Adebayo (2010) with a reliability coefficient of 0.75 was used for data collection. Only 180 Pronunciation test that were properly filled and returned were subjected to both descriptive and inferential statistical analysis. The percentage was used to answer the research questions while Chi-square was employed to test the hypotheses postulated at the 0.05 level of significance. The findings of this study revealed that a number of Arabic consonants constitute pronunciation difficulty for the students due to the presence of their corresponding consonant sounds in Hausa language, while all Arabic vowels did not constitute much pronunciation difficulty for students. The findings also revealed that there was no significant difference in the Arabic consonant and vowel sounds that constitute pronunciation difficulties for male and female Upper Basic Hausa-speaking students of Arabic from both public and private schools in Kano State. In the light of these findings, it was recommended among others that, teachers of Arabic language should pay more attention to the various Arabic consonant and vowel phonemes as well as the Arabic syllable patterns that constitute pronunciation difficulties for the Hausa-speaking students of Arabic. The attention of Hausa-speaking students of Arabic should also be drawn to the semantic implications of phonemic replacement, reduction or prolongation