Nadira Saab
Biographic Data
| ID | 5010305 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nadira Saab |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nadira |
| FAMILY NAME | Saab |
| SIGNATURE | SAAB N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0751-4277 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Feedback practices with teacher dashboards in primary education
In primary education, adaptive learning technologies (ALTs) personalise tasks and provide teacher dashboards that visualise real-time student performance and progress. These dashboards can help teachers to provide targeted, real-time feedback based on the dashboard data, a practice known as dashboard-prompted feedback (DP-feedback). This study examined how teachers give different types of DP-feedback (task, process, metacognitive, social, and per…
Unraveling teachers’ intercultural competence when facing a simulated multicultural classroom
This study explored teachers' intercultural competence in response to simulated multicultural classroom scenarios. Data were collected from five focus-group meetings, with three teachers each. Before the discussion, the 15 teachers individually viewed three Spherical Video-Based Virtual Reality (SV-VR) clips from multicultural classrooms viewed through a Head Mounted Display (HMD, Oculus Go). A modified version of Deardorff's Pyramid Model of Int…
EFL university students’ game element preferences and learning needs
Digital gamification has a great potential for enhancing EFL learners' motivation and achievement. A digital gamified class should be the integration of ‘game’ and ‘learning’ aspects. However, most studies on it have been conducted only with the hypothesis of using game elements to improve the student experience, ignoring the role of students' learning needs in the success of digital gamification. The present study employed the Target Needs Analy…
Factors affecting teachers’ self-efficacy in teaching in primary education
The quality of teaching is significantly influenced by teachers' self-efficacy. Grounded in social cognitive theory, this study examined the relationship between teachers' self-efficacy for teaching, on the one hand, and individual factors, working conditions, and principal leadership, on the other. Data derived from 466 primary teachers were analyzed using structural equation modeling. The results indicated that teachers' self-efficacy in teachi…
Approaches and game elements used to tailor digital gamification for learning
The systematic review examined research on tailored digital gamification for learning based on 43 peer-reviewed articles published between 2013 and 2022. The study aimed to investigate tailored approaches and game elements, contributing to the use of tailored digital gamification in educational settings. The tailored approaches were categorized as personalization, adaptation, and recommendation, with user modeling as their basis. Five clusters of…
Potential of computer‐mediated communications in directing communication repair, co‐regulation patterns and student engagement
Effects of 360 ° video virtual reality-supported reflection on student teachers’ classroom management self-efficacy and their stress levels
Do learners share the same perceived learning outcomes in Moocs? Identifying the role of motivation, perceived learning support, learning engagement, and self-regulated learning strategies
The aim of this study was to examine how motivation, perceived learning support, learning engagement, and self-regulated learning strategies relate to learners' perceived learning outcomes of massive open online courses (MOOCs). An online survey was administered to 546 participants from four MOOCs. Seven types of reasons for attending MOOCs were identified, ranging from intrinsic to extrinsic motivation. One-way MANOVA revealed that learners with…
The Effectiveness of School-Based Skills-Training Programs Reducing Performance or Social Anxiety
Language diversity as resource or as problem? Educator discourses and language policy at high schools in the Netherlands
The ways in which educators talk about diversity, and specifically about linguistic diversity, reflect underlying beliefs about language in society and influence teaching practice. Semi-structured interviews with 55 high school teachers in the Netherlands were analyzed qualitatively in order to identify teachers’ discourse patterns related to the backgrounds and home languages of their students as well as language policies in the school context. …
Mind the gap
In the first years of a teaching career, teachers experience high levels of distress, and the attrition rate appears to be high. Early-career teachers do not always feel well prepared for their job and feel insufficient support during their first experiences as a teacher. Induction programs, professional development, and school support could equip early-career teachers with the additional teaching repertoire they need and improve their well-being…
Self-Reported Stressors in Early Adolescence
The present study aimed to identify overall stress and salient stressors experienced by adolescents from different education tracks and self-perceived ethnic backgrounds. A total of 1489 adolescents ( M = 13.40 years; SD = 0.89 years) from nine Dutch secondary schools participated. Self-reported stressors were measured with the adapted version of the Adolescent Stress Questionnaire – Short. After controlling for age, gender, country of birth, and…
Teachers’ visual inspection of Curriculum-Based Measurement progress graphs
In this exploratory descriptive study, we use eye-tracking technology to examine teachers’ visual inspection of Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM) progress graphs. More specifically, we examined which elements of the graph received the most visual attention from teachers, and to what extent teachers viewed graph elements in a logical sequence. We also examined whether graph inspection patterns differed for teachers with higher- vs. lower-quality …
Teacher autonomous motivation for continuous professional development
The school context has the potential to hinder or stimulate teachers’ motivation to attend Continuous Professional Development (CPD) programs. The present study investigated the relationship between workplace conditions in schools and teachers’autonomous motivation to participate in CPD. A questionnaire was completed by 472 teachers in 13 schools in China. The results show that four school condition variables are related to teachers’autonomous mo…
University students’ use of mobile technology in self-directed language learning
Mobile technology offers great potential for university students’ language learning. Numerous studies have been conducted on utilizing mobile technology in language learning classroom. However, using it in self-initiated and self-directed learning outside class remains to be explored. The present study employed the integrative model of behavior prediction to investigate the relationships between attitude, subjective norm, self-efficacy and behavi…
Online peer feedback on video presentations
Peer feedback can be a tool to help higher education students develop presentation skills. This process can be supported by using online tools that enable peers to provide feedback annotated to specific moments in the presentation. The current paper investigated whether providing and receiving peer feedback using an online tool was related to improvement in students’ presentation skills, whether students provided different peer feedback in commen…
Assessment of cognitive, behavioral, and affective learning outcomes in massive open online courses
This systematic review on massive open online courses (MOOCs) in higher education examined the research on the assessment of learning outcomes based on 65 peer-reviewed articles published between 2017 and 2019. This study aims to investigate the learning outcomes, related instruments, and assessment characteristics of these instruments in MOOCs. Learning outcomes that were examined in the studies that were reviewed concerned cognitive, behavioral…
The Community of Inquiry perspective on students' social presence, cognitive presence, and academic performance in online project‐based learning
Project‐based learning (PjBL) engages students in knowledge acquisition, application, and construction through artefact development. Based on the Community of Inquiry framework, this study characterized college students' social and cognitive presences in online PjBL and examined how presence was related to their academic performance. Twenty‐four groups of students participated in a 3‐week project via WeChat discussion groups and created a final p…
Teachers’ motivation to participate in continuous professional development
Teachers’ motivation to participate in professional learning is a significant factor in explaining the effectiveness of continuous professional development programmes. The present study investigated how factors at teachers’ personal and school levels are related to their motivation to participate in professional learning activities. A questionnaire was completed by 472 Chinese teachers. Multivariate analysis revealed that several factors at the t…
Prepandemic Risk Factors of Covid‐19‐Related Concerns in Adolescents During the Covid‐19 Pandemic
To identify adolescents who may be at risk for adverse outcomes, we examined the extent of COVID-19-related concerns reported by adolescents and investigated which prepandemic risk and protective factors predicted these concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dutch adolescents (N = 188; M age = 13.49, SD = .81) were assessed before the pandemic and at eight and ten months into the pandemic. Results demonstrated that adolescents' most frequently re…
A review of project-based learning in higher education
Project-based learning (PjBL) is understood to be a promising approach that improves student learning in higher education. Empirical studies on project-based learning have been reviewed with a focus on student outcomes. Affective outcomes (i.e. perceptions of the benefits of PjBL and perceptions of the experience of PjBL) were most applied, which were measured by questionnaires, interviews, observation, and self-reflection journals. Cognitive out…
University-School Partnership in China
Effects of critical incident tasks on students’ awareness of intercultural communication ( Efectos de un programa de actividades basadas en incidentes críticos en la competencia de los estudiantes sob…
Due to the internationalization and globalization of businesses in Vietnam, the new-generation students need to develop skills in intercultural communication. The current study aims to develop English non-majors’ awareness of intercultural communication by using critical incident open-ended tasks. Critical incidents in intercultural communication training are descriptions of situations in which a misunderstanding, problem or conflict arises as a …
Can Schools Reduce Adolescent Psychological Stress? A Multilevel Meta-Analysis of the Effectiveness of School-Based Intervention Programs
Increased levels of psychological stress during adolescence have been associated with a decline in academic performance, school dropout and increased risk of mental health problems. Intervening during this developmental period may prevent these problems. The school environment seems particularly suitable for interventions and over the past decade, various school-based stress reduction programs have been developed. The present study aims to evalua…
The impact of formative peer feedback on higher education students’ academic writing
Peer feedback is frequently implemented with academic writing tasks in higher education. However, a quantitative synthesis is still lacking for the impact that peer feedback has on students’ writing performance. The current study conveyed two types of observations. First, regarding the impact of peer feedback on writing performance, this study synthesized the results of 24 quantitative studies reporting on higher education students’ academic writ…
Prepandemic Risk Factors of Covid‐19‐Related Concerns in Adolescents During the Covid‐19 Pandemic
To identify adolescents who may be at risk for adverse outcomes, we examined the extent of COVID-19-related concerns reported by adolescents and investigated which prepandemic risk and protective factors predicted these concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dutch adolescents (N = 188; M age = 13.49, SD = .81) were assessed before the pandemic and at eight and ten months into the pandemic. Results demonstrated that adolescents' most frequently re…
Can Schools Reduce Adolescent Psychological Stress? A Multilevel Meta-Analysis of the Effectiveness of School-Based Intervention Programs
Increased levels of psychological stress during adolescence have been associated with a decline in academic performance, school dropout and increased risk of mental health problems. Intervening during this developmental period may prevent these problems. The school environment seems particularly suitable for interventions and over the past decade, various school-based stress reduction programs have been developed. The present study aims to evalua…
Effects of critical incident tasks on the intercultural competence of English non-majors
In this internationalised world, graduate employability in terms of intercultural communication skills needs to be taken into account in higher education. The present study aims to explore the effects of critical incident task instruction on English non-majored undergraduates’ intercultural competence. One group of students received ten weeks of instruction with one critical incident task per week and another group received standard English class…
Mind the gap
In the first years of a teaching career, teachers experience high levels of distress, and the attrition rate appears to be high. Early-career teachers do not always feel well prepared for their job and feel insufficient support during their first experiences as a teacher. Induction programs, professional development, and school support could equip early-career teachers with the additional teaching repertoire they need and improve their well-being…
Effects of critical incident tasks on students’ awareness of intercultural communication ( Efectos de un programa de actividades basadas en incidentes críticos en la competencia de los estudiantes sob…
Due to the internationalization and globalization of businesses in Vietnam, the new-generation students need to develop skills in intercultural communication. The current study aims to develop English non-majors’ awareness of intercultural communication by using critical incident open-ended tasks. Critical incidents in intercultural communication training are descriptions of situations in which a misunderstanding, problem or conflict arises as a …
EFL university students’ game element preferences and learning needs
Digital gamification has a great potential for enhancing EFL learners' motivation and achievement. A digital gamified class should be the integration of ‘game’ and ‘learning’ aspects. However, most studies on it have been conducted only with the hypothesis of using game elements to improve the student experience, ignoring the role of students' learning needs in the success of digital gamification. The present study employed the Target Needs Analy…
Peer feedback on academic writing
Within the higher education context, peer feedback is frequently applied as an instructional method. Research on the learning mechanisms involved in the peer feedback process has covered aspects of both providing and receiving feedback. However, a direct comparison of the impact that providing and receiving peer feedback has on students’ writing performance is still lacking. The current study compared the writing performance of undergraduate stud…
The impact of formative peer feedback on higher education students’ academic writing
Peer feedback is frequently implemented with academic writing tasks in higher education. However, a quantitative synthesis is still lacking for the impact that peer feedback has on students’ writing performance. The current study conveyed two types of observations. First, regarding the impact of peer feedback on writing performance, this study synthesized the results of 24 quantitative studies reporting on higher education students’ academic writ…
The effectiveness of school-based skills-training programs promoting mental health in adolescents
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Quality of group interaction, ethnic group composition, and individual mathematical learning gains
High-quality helping behavior is essential for effective peer interaction and learning. This study focused on ethnic group composition and the quality of group interaction as predictors of individual mathematics performance. Video-observations of 92 fifth-grade students working in groups balanced on mathematics performance level were analyzed. We expected a difference in the quality of interaction and test scores of native and non-native students…
Effects of critical incident tasks on the intercultural competence of English non-majors
In this internationalised world, graduate employability in terms of intercultural communication skills needs to be taken into account in higher education. The present study aims to explore the effects of critical incident task instruction on English non-majored undergraduates’ intercultural competence. One group of students received ten weeks of instruction with one critical incident task per week and another group received standard English class…
A review of project-based learning in higher education
Project-based learning (PjBL) is understood to be a promising approach that improves student learning in higher education. Empirical studies on project-based learning have been reviewed with a focus on student outcomes. Affective outcomes (i.e. perceptions of the benefits of PjBL and perceptions of the experience of PjBL) were most applied, which were measured by questionnaires, interviews, observation, and self-reflection journals. Cognitive out…
University-School Partnership in China
Effects of critical incident tasks on students’ awareness of intercultural communication ( Efectos de un programa de actividades basadas en incidentes críticos en la competencia de los estudiantes sob…
Due to the internationalization and globalization of businesses in Vietnam, the new-generation students need to develop skills in intercultural communication. The current study aims to develop English non-majors’ awareness of intercultural communication by using critical incident open-ended tasks. Critical incidents in intercultural communication training are descriptions of situations in which a misunderstanding, problem or conflict arises as a …
Can Schools Reduce Adolescent Psychological Stress? A Multilevel Meta-Analysis of the Effectiveness of School-Based Intervention Programs
Increased levels of psychological stress during adolescence have been associated with a decline in academic performance, school dropout and increased risk of mental health problems. Intervening during this developmental period may prevent these problems. The school environment seems particularly suitable for interventions and over the past decade, various school-based stress reduction programs have been developed. The present study aims to evalua…
Assessment of cognitive, behavioral, and affective learning outcomes in massive open online courses
This systematic review on massive open online courses (MOOCs) in higher education examined the research on the assessment of learning outcomes based on 65 peer-reviewed articles published between 2017 and 2019. This study aims to investigate the learning outcomes, related instruments, and assessment characteristics of these instruments in MOOCs. Learning outcomes that were examined in the studies that were reviewed concerned cognitive, behavioral…
The Community of Inquiry perspective on students' social presence, cognitive presence, and academic performance in online project‐based learning
Project‐based learning (PjBL) engages students in knowledge acquisition, application, and construction through artefact development. Based on the Community of Inquiry framework, this study characterized college students' social and cognitive presences in online PjBL and examined how presence was related to their academic performance. Twenty‐four groups of students participated in a 3‐week project via WeChat discussion groups and created a final p…
Teachers’ motivation to participate in continuous professional development
Teachers’ motivation to participate in professional learning is a significant factor in explaining the effectiveness of continuous professional development programmes. The present study investigated how factors at teachers’ personal and school levels are related to their motivation to participate in professional learning activities. A questionnaire was completed by 472 Chinese teachers. Multivariate analysis revealed that several factors at the t…
Prepandemic Risk Factors of Covid‐19‐Related Concerns in Adolescents During the Covid‐19 Pandemic
To identify adolescents who may be at risk for adverse outcomes, we examined the extent of COVID-19-related concerns reported by adolescents and investigated which prepandemic risk and protective factors predicted these concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dutch adolescents (N = 188; M age = 13.49, SD = .81) were assessed before the pandemic and at eight and ten months into the pandemic. Results demonstrated that adolescents' most frequently re…
Teachers’ visual inspection of Curriculum-Based Measurement progress graphs
In this exploratory descriptive study, we use eye-tracking technology to examine teachers’ visual inspection of Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM) progress graphs. More specifically, we examined which elements of the graph received the most visual attention from teachers, and to what extent teachers viewed graph elements in a logical sequence. We also examined whether graph inspection patterns differed for teachers with higher- vs. lower-quality …
Teacher autonomous motivation for continuous professional development
The school context has the potential to hinder or stimulate teachers’ motivation to attend Continuous Professional Development (CPD) programs. The present study investigated the relationship between workplace conditions in schools and teachers’autonomous motivation to participate in CPD. A questionnaire was completed by 472 teachers in 13 schools in China. The results show that four school condition variables are related to teachers’autonomous mo…
University students’ use of mobile technology in self-directed language learning
Mobile technology offers great potential for university students’ language learning. Numerous studies have been conducted on utilizing mobile technology in language learning classroom. However, using it in self-initiated and self-directed learning outside class remains to be explored. The present study employed the integrative model of behavior prediction to investigate the relationships between attitude, subjective norm, self-efficacy and behavi…
Online peer feedback on video presentations
Peer feedback can be a tool to help higher education students develop presentation skills. This process can be supported by using online tools that enable peers to provide feedback annotated to specific moments in the presentation. The current paper investigated whether providing and receiving peer feedback using an online tool was related to improvement in students’ presentation skills, whether students provided different peer feedback in commen…
Do learners share the same perceived learning outcomes in Moocs? Identifying the role of motivation, perceived learning support, learning engagement, and self-regulated learning strategies
The aim of this study was to examine how motivation, perceived learning support, learning engagement, and self-regulated learning strategies relate to learners' perceived learning outcomes of massive open online courses (MOOCs). An online survey was administered to 546 participants from four MOOCs. Seven types of reasons for attending MOOCs were identified, ranging from intrinsic to extrinsic motivation. One-way MANOVA revealed that learners with…
The Effectiveness of School-Based Skills-Training Programs Reducing Performance or Social Anxiety
Language diversity as resource or as problem? Educator discourses and language policy at high schools in the Netherlands
The ways in which educators talk about diversity, and specifically about linguistic diversity, reflect underlying beliefs about language in society and influence teaching practice. Semi-structured interviews with 55 high school teachers in the Netherlands were analyzed qualitatively in order to identify teachers’ discourse patterns related to the backgrounds and home languages of their students as well as language policies in the school context. …
Mind the gap
In the first years of a teaching career, teachers experience high levels of distress, and the attrition rate appears to be high. Early-career teachers do not always feel well prepared for their job and feel insufficient support during their first experiences as a teacher. Induction programs, professional development, and school support could equip early-career teachers with the additional teaching repertoire they need and improve their well-being…
Self-Reported Stressors in Early Adolescence
The present study aimed to identify overall stress and salient stressors experienced by adolescents from different education tracks and self-perceived ethnic backgrounds. A total of 1489 adolescents ( M = 13.40 years; SD = 0.89 years) from nine Dutch secondary schools participated. Self-reported stressors were measured with the adapted version of the Adolescent Stress Questionnaire – Short. After controlling for age, gender, country of birth, and…
Approaches and game elements used to tailor digital gamification for learning
The systematic review examined research on tailored digital gamification for learning based on 43 peer-reviewed articles published between 2013 and 2022. The study aimed to investigate tailored approaches and game elements, contributing to the use of tailored digital gamification in educational settings. The tailored approaches were categorized as personalization, adaptation, and recommendation, with user modeling as their basis. Five clusters of…
Potential of computer‐mediated communications in directing communication repair, co‐regulation patterns and student engagement
Effects of 360 ° video virtual reality-supported reflection on student teachers’ classroom management self-efficacy and their stress levels
Psychology (27 works) · Mathematics education (17 works) · Pedagogy (15 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Medical education (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (5 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (5 works)