Ziad Qabaja

• PhD
• Head of Department at Al-Quds University

The study aims at investigating the effect of using short stories on the development of 5th graders' reading comprehension skills. The study was applied on a purposeful sample of 5th grade students in a governmental school in Hebron District in the academic year 2016/2017. The sample included (87) students at The Korean Palestinian Basic School for...

The increasingly growing number of virtual schools has encouraged new modes of teaching and learning. This paper describes part of a project about Learning-by-Modeling (LbM). Studying geometric optics is increasingly important in teaching and learning physics and many science domains. Many features of geometric optics make it difficult for students...

Abstract The study aimed at investigating the effect of using the “SQP2RS via WTL” strategy through science context to 10th graders’ reading comprehension in English in Bethlehem district in Palestine. The study has been applied on a purposeful sample of 10th grade students at public schools in Bethlehem district in the academic year 2015/2016. Th...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the attitudes of Palestinian undergraduate students towards native and non-native English language teachers and their relation to students' listening ability. To achieve this purpose and to answer the research questions and test the hypotheses, the researchers adopted both the descriptive and inferential...

The study aimed at investigating the effect of using the “SQP2RS via WTL” strategy through science context to 10thgraders’ reading comprehension in English in Bethlehem district in Palestine. The study has been applied on apurposeful sample of 10th grade students at public schools in Bethlehem district in the academic year 2015/2016. Thesample incl...

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in teaching and learning physics is a very active field of research and innovation, where learning is understood to be meaningful and grasping multiple linked representation rather than rote memorization, a great amount of literature offering a wide range of theories, learning approaches, methodologi...

The study aimed at investigating the effects of using the reflective inquiry strategy on the acquisition of the desired physics concepts and development of scientific attitudes for the 6th grade students. The sample of the study consisted of (146) 9th grade students (80 males and 66 female from the governmental schools in Bethlehem District/Palesti...

Learning and Motivation: Successful Professional Development Program for Palestinian In-Service Elementary Science Teachers Iyad M. Dkeidek, Al-Quds University, idkeidek@edu.alquds.edu Ziyad M. M. Qabaja, Al-Quds University ABSTRACT: Helping people to be scientifically literate has been a central goal of science education reforms in many countries...

This survey study investigated science teachers attitudes towards the role of teachers, principals and supervisors in offering active classroom environment to high basic school students in Jerusalem. The researchers improved a questionnaire to collect the needed data. The results of the study were considered statistically, it scored(0.88 )at alpha...

This study aims at investigating obstacles of creativity performance of science teachers in the high primary schools at Jerusalem district as perceived by teachers themselves. It also aims to identify these obstacles due to some variables (gender, scientific qualifications and years of experience). The descriptive analysis method was used in this s...

The study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of using the Predict-Observe-Explain (POE) strategy on the acquisition of the desired physics concepts for 9 th grade students The sample of the study consisted of (114) 9th grade students (52 males and 62 females) from the governmental schools in Bethlehem District, were assigned to experimental and...

Abstract of Published work: This study aimed at investigating the effectiveness of using epistemological v-shape on the acquisition of the desired physics concepts for Al-Quds University students The sample was purposeful and consisted of (48) first year University students from scientific colleges at Al-Quds University were assigned to experimenta...

ABSTRACT The efficiency of using epistemological v-shape to physics lab on first year university students’ scientific thinking This study aimed at investigating the efficiency of using epistemological vshape to physics lab on first year university student’s scientific thinking. The sample of the study consisted of (48) first year university student...