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  • Discovering Multiple Intelligences through a Performance-Based Assessment 
    Sarouphim, Ketty M.; SAS; 197906620; Social Sciences; ksarufim@lau.edu.lb (2016-04-20)
    The purpose of this study was to investigate the consistency between performance-based DISCOVER (Discovering Intellectual Strengths and Capabilities through Observation while allowing for Varied Ethnic Responses) assessment ...
  • Internal Structure of DISCOVER: A Performance-based Assessment 
    Sarouphim, Ketty M.; SAS; 197906620; Social Sciences; ksarufim@lau.edu.lb (2016-04-20)
    A study involving 257 Navajo and Mexican-American elementary students investigated the internal structure of the DISCOVER assessment, a performance-based assessment grounded in Gardner's theory of multiple intelligence. ...
  • DISCOVER 
    Sarouphim, Ketty M.; SAS; 197906620; Social Sciences; ksarufim@lau.edu.lb (2016-04-20)
    This study used the Raven Progressive Matrices to examine the concurrent validity of the DISCOVER assessment. It also investigated gender differences. A secondary purpose was to determine the effectiveness of the DISCOVER ...
  • DISCOVER in Middle School 
    Sarouphim, Ketty M.; SAS; 197906620; Social Sciences; ksarufim@lau.edu.lb (2016-04-20)
    The purpose of this study was to examine the validity of the grades 6–8 version of DISCOVER, a performance-based assessment, and investigate its effectiveness in identifying gifted minority students. Questions examined ...
  • The Use of a Performance Assessment for Identifying Gifted Lebanese Students 
    Sarouphim, Ketty M.; SAS; 197906620; Social Sciences; ksarufim@lau.edu.lb (2016-04-20)
    The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of DISCOVER, a performance- based assessment in identifying gifted Lebanese students. The sample consisted of 248 students (121 boys, 127 girls) from Grades ...
  • A Model for the Education of Gifted Learners in Lebanon 
    Sarouphim, Ketty M.; SAS; 197906620; Social Sciences; ksarufim@lau.edu.lb (2016-04-20)
    The purpose of this paper is to present a model for developing a comprehensive system of education for gifted learners in Lebanon. The model consists of three phases and includes key elements for establishing gifted ...
  • Gifted and Non-Gifted Lebanese Adolescents 
    Sarouphim, Ketty M.; SAS; 197906620; Social Sciences; ksarufim@lau.edu.lb (2016-04-20)
    The purpose of this study was to investigate gender differences in self-concept, self-esteem, and depression among gifted (n=68) and non-gifted (n=174) adolescents in Lebanon. Participants were 242 adolescents (110 males ...
  • How novel is the Actiotope Model of Gifted Education? 
    Sarouphim, Ketty M.; SAS; 197906620; Social Sciences; ksarufim@lau.edu.lb (2016-04-20)
  • Review of Gal and Kligman’s Reproducing Gender and The Politics of Gender after Socialism 
    Ouaiss-Skulte, Jennifer; SAS; 200503273; Social Sciences; Jennifer.skulte-ouaiss@lau.edu.lb (2016-04-20)
  • The empowerment of Arab women through higher education 
    Skulte-Ouaiss, Jennifer; SAS; 200503273; Social Sciences; Jennifer.skulte-ouaiss@lau.edu.lb (2016-04-19)
    The empowerment of Arab women through higher education is a monographic issue of Al Raida, the magazine of the Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World. The speeches, articles and reviews that comprise this issue ...
  • Strong in Their Weakness or Weak in Their Strength? The Case of Lebanese Diaspora Engagement with Lebanon 
    Skulte-Ouaiss, Jennifer; Tabar, Paul; SAS; 200503273; 199329060; Social Sciences; ptabar@lau.edu.lb; Jennifer.skulte-ouaiss@lau.edu.lb (2016-04-19)
    This paper seeks to assess when and how the Lebanese Diaspora in Australia, Canada and the USA is most able to affect homeland affairs in Lebanon. Drawing on over 300 in-depth interviews and analysing literature on the ...
  • Mohamed Hassanein Heikal on the United States 
    Baroudi, Sami E.; Skulte-Ouaiss, Jennifer; SAS; 200503273; 199329040; Social Sciences; Jennifer.skulte-ouaiss@lau.edu.lb; sbaroudy@lau.edu.lb (2016-04-19)
    The renowned Egyptian journalist and commentator Mohamed Hassanein Heikal (b. 1923) is arguably the doyen of Arab writers critical of the United States. Heikal's career as an author spans more than half a century and his ...
  • Home is where the heart is 
    Skulte-Ouaiss, Jennifer; SAS; 200503273; Social Sciences; Jennifer.skulte-ouaiss@lau.edu.lb (2016-04-19)
    In a country with a history of conflict, Lebanese not only have long sought emigration as a means of improving their safety and prosperity but also have sought out second passports as ‘safeguards’ to be used when things ...
  • Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy of Carbon Black / Silica Filled Rubber Polymers 
    Semaan, Mars; Quarles, C.A.; Nikiel, Leszek; SAS; 199690260; Natural Sciences; msemaan@lau.edu.lb (2016-04-19)
  • Positron Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy of Carbon Black- and Silica-Filled Rubber 
    Semaan, Mars E.; Quarles, C.A.; Urban-Klaehn, J. M.; Gerspacher, M.; Nikiel, Leszek; SAS; 199690260; Natural Sciences; msemaan@lau.edu.lb (2016-04-18)
    Lifetime spectroscopy has been used to investigate different grades of carbon black (CB) and silica mixed into a variety of rubbers as a function of CB or silica loading. The spectra were analyzed into three lifetimes. The ...
  • Doppler broadening spectroscopy of carbon black and carbon black-filled rubbers 
    Semaan, Mars E.; Nikiel, Leszek; Quarles, C.A.; SAS; 199690260; Natural Sciences; msemaan@lau.edu.lb (2016-04-18)
    We have used positron annihilation Doppler broadening spectroscopy to investigate the effects of filling various rubber polymers with different amounts and types of carbon blacks. The results show direct correlation between ...
  • A model for low-energy thick-target bremsstrahlung produced in a scanning electron microscope 
    Semaan, Mars; Quarles, C.A.; SAS; 199690260; Natural Sciences (2016-04-18)
    Thick-target bremsstrahlung measurements were obtained for various atomic numbers and for energies between 10 and 25 keV. A Jeol JSM 6100 scanning electron microscope was used for the electron beam and a Oxford Instruments ...
  • Carbon Black and silica as reinforcers of rubber polymers 
    Semaan, Mars E.; Quarles, C.A.; Nikiel, Leszek; SAS; 199690260; Natural Sciences; msemaan@lau.edu.lb (2016-04-18)
    We have used Doppler broadening spectroscopy to investigate the effects of filling various rubber polymers with different amounts and types of carbon blacks and of silica. Carbon Black has important reinforcing properties ...
  • Bremsstrahlung spectrum from low-energy-electron bombardment of rare-gas atoms 
    Semaan, Mars; Quarles, Carroll; SAS; 199690260; Natural Sciences (2016-04-18)
    Results are presented for the atomic-field bremsstrahlung photon spectrum at 90° from the bombardment of atoms of neon, argon, krypton, and xenon by 6-10-keV electrons. The experimental data are found to agree well with ...
  • Z dependence of atomic-field bremsstrahlung 
    Semaan, Mars; Quarles, Carroll; SAS; 199690260; Natural Sciences (2016-04-18)
    New results for the atomic-field bremsstrahlung for Z=80 are presented which, along with an extension of previous results for Z=10 to 54 to lower radiated-photon energies, can be compared with theory. The results are in ...

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