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الباحث: Elham Alsadoon, Ahmad Abdul-Wahhab Shahba, Walid Soufan, Saud Alkathiri
عنوان الدراسة: A data-driven evaluation of the grant program for excellence in learning and teaching (PELT): AI-leveraged insights from faculty, students, and academic metrics
المجلة العلمية: Frontiers in Education (2025)
مستخلص الدراسة:
The study’s findings underscore the importance of aligning educational interventions with approaches that prioritize active learning, collaborative experiences, and authentic student-faculty interactions. Furthermore, this study provides a robust foundation for assessing the impact of faculty development programs and guiding data-driven decisions to enhance the quality of higher education
الباحث: Omar Altwijri, Elham Alsadoon, Ahmad Abdul-Wahhab Shahba, Walid Soufan,MonaAlamri and Saud Alkathiri
عنوان الدراسة: Investigating the Impact of Student-Assisted E-Learning Delivery (SAED) Program on Academic Performance and Learning Management System Engagement: Insights from a Large-Scale University Study
المجلة العلمية: Revista de Educación (ISSN: 0034-8082)
مستخلص الدراسة:
Learning Management Systems (LMS) have facilitated a pivotal change in educational practices by enhancing content dissemination and enabling data-driven insights into pedagogical strategies. However, their full potential might not be realized without mutual engagement between faculty and students. The Student Assistant E-Learning Delivery (SAED) program addresses this by developing student-faculty partnerships leveraging trained student assistants to be active members of the e-learning delivery. Objective: This study evaluates SAED's impacts on student achievement and Blackboard engagement across a large, diverse university population using exploratory data analysis. Methods: Data from 2223 students enrolled in 24 university courses, both with SAED implementation and non-SAED controls, were analyzed. Course pass percentages, average section scores, individual student scores, and Blackboard platform metrics were compared between the SAED and control groups. SAED effects were evaluated overall and within subgroups determined by semester, sex, campus, discipline, faculty, and course. Results: The study observed high overall pass rates (98.1%) and average course section scores (4.3 out of 5.0), indicating robust academic performance. There was no significant difference in pass rates and scores between SAED and control groups. Notably, SAED had a positive impact on scores for female students and those in the Humanities/Social Sciences college, while it showed lower scores in males and the Law/Political Science college compared to the control group. SAED yielded comparable Blackboard engagement to 2024 404(4 ) 46 non-SAED control groups. Interestingly, higher exam scores were correlated with lower item counts on Blackboard. Conclusion: The SAED program offers an effective strategy to facilitate e-learning while achieving equitable outcomes to standard "sole faculty-delivery" approaches. However, findings reveal untapped opportunities to engage student assistants as partners in pedagogical innovation and course enhancement beyond basic support roles
الباحث: Ahmed Azmy, Aasem Alabdullatief, Abdulrahman Altassan, Hala Mokhtar
عنوان الدراسة: A Web-Based Assessment and Evaluation System for Architectural Design Studio Modules
المجلة العلمية: International Journal of Teacher Education and Professional Development (IJTEPD) 2024
مستخلص الدراسة:
Architectural design studio modules are known to be difficult to teach and/or assess. To acquire design skills, typically, students have several design modules during their program and several projects for each module. However, traditional project assessment and evaluation lacks consistency, objectivity and fairness. Furthermore, monitoring student progress over the different projects and over the different modules and different semesters is very difficult and needs much time and effort. This work presents a web-based system developed to support fair rubrics-based assessment and evaluation of design projects and to provide in-depth analysis of students' results. It also links between the results over the different projects and the different modules and provides feedback about students' skills and weaknesses in a simple form thus allowing progressive learning. The system has been tested and evaluated and the results show its simplicity, reliability and effectiveness
الباحث:Omar Altwijri, Elham Alsadoon, Ahmad Abdul-Wahhab Shahba, Walid Soufan, Saud Alkathiri
عنوان الدراسة: The Impact of Student Response Systems (SRS) on Student Achievements: A University-Scale Study with Deep Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)
المجلة العلمية: MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute) 2023
مستخلص الدراسة:
The integration of Student Response Systems (SRSs) into classroom teaching is a pioneering progression in social sciences research that has shown potential in boosting student engagement and elevating academic success. However, no extensive study has examined the impact of its use on academic achievement within a sizable number of students of diverse cofactors, such as scientific discipline and study levels. The current study aims to conduct a comprehensive score analysis investigating the effect of SRS use on academic performance. It involved a total of 6047 male and female undergraduate students from four scientific disciplines, seven colleges, four campuses, and 13 courses covering all study levels within King Saud University. The student’s scores along with their attributes were anonymously collected from the university system. A voluntary anonymous survey was distributed to collect students’ perceptions of SRS along with their personal attributes, such as learning style, and class interaction preferences. Upon data collection, the Python programming language was exclusively implemented for comprehensive data analysis including grouping, validation, random sampling, visualization, and statistical analysis. The overall score analysis study showed a non-significant effect of SRS use on student scores compared to the control (non-SRS) group, while the survey findings proved a significant enhancement of students’ scores (in courses that utilized SRS) compared to their overall GPA. In addition, the differential score and survey analysis within various study subcategories showed significant positive effects in certain subcategories, particularly science and community colleges, and four of their representative courses. SRS showed higher levels of overall student satisfaction (average—4.4/5.0), yet it was also significantly influenced by scientific discipline, preferred interaction methods, and study levels. Overall, SRS provides a highly engaging tool with excellent student acceptance and potential academic performance enhancement
الباحث: Omar Altwijri, Elham Alsadoon, Ahmad Abdul-Wahhab Shahba, Walid Soufan, Saud Alkathiri
عنوان الدراسة: The Effect of Using “Student Response Systems (SRS)” on Faculty Performance and Student Interaction in the Classroom
المجلة العلمية: Sustainability 2022
مستخلص الدراسة:
Enhancing faculty performance and student interaction during the lecture is essential to achieve sustainable learning development. The current study aims to evaluate the effect of using “Student response systems (SRS)” on faculty performance and student interaction in the classroom. The faculty members at King Saud University were encouraged to join a university-scale educational project that involve utilizing SRSs within their classes. From Fall 2016 to Fall 2019, a total of 371 faculty members and 19,746 students were enrolled in the current study. By the end of each semester, faculty and student satisfaction surveys were distributed to evaluate their perceptions of using SRS in the class. The faculty members’ and students’ response rates were 75.7% and 38.1%, respectively, and represented 18 different colleges from different disciplines within the university. Furthermore, the study covered a wide range of study levels for bachelor’s degrees ranging from levels 1–10. The study demographics showed that 60% of the total participating faculty members and 64% of students were females. Interestingly, the majority of participating faculty members (40%) and students (44%) belong to health colleges. Among the most beneficial effects of using SRSs, is that it increased the interaction, focus, and participation of students in the lecture and stimulated their desire to attend and prepare for the lecture. It also helped the faculty members to improve their teaching strategies and enabled them to know the weaknesses or strengths of students, which in turn led to the improvement of the entire educational process.
الباحث: د. هند سليمان الخليفة
عنوان الدراسة: Tadawl: An Educational Platform for Gamifying Startup Investment
المجلة العلمية:2021 In Proceedings of the 22st Annual Conference on Information Technology Education (pp. 147-150)
مستخلص الدراسة:
Gamification, or the use of game mechanics in non-game applications, allows students to learn by doing. In this paper we present our experience in implementing a gamification platform in our entrepreneurship course to encourage students on investing in their peers' projects and provide them with feedback. The platform involved the interaction of 106 undergraduate female students during a semester long entrepreneurship course. We also report the results obtained after using the platform in terms of students' feedback and final remarks.
الباحث : د. أمل عبدالله ال إبراهيم
عنوان الدراسة: Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students’ Perceptions of the Flipped Classroom Strategy in an Undergraduate Education Course
المجلة العلمية: (European Journal of Educational Research, Volume 8, Issue 1, 325 - 336. , (2019
مستخلص الدراسة:
Abstract: This study aims to evaluate the academic outcomes of the flipped classroom approach in the teaching of students who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH). Furthermore, it aims to activate the role of the teacher through encouraging both teachers and students to engage in active learning styles, while acknowledging individual differences. Participants consisted of 12 female undergraduates with hearing disabilities in a 251 CI course (applications of ICT in teaching and learning) at the College of Education, King Saud University. The study was applied throughout a semester on the contents of the course. The content material and pre-class assigned work (e.g. instructional videos and tasks) were delivered through Blackboard (learning management system), while active learning activities were carried out in class. Using mixed methods, students’ perceptions of their new learning environment were explored through a post-term questionnaire distributed at the end of the semester, in addition to writing a reflective report. Furthermore, participants were requested to write a reflective journal at the end of each lecture. Results indicated the effectiveness of the flipped classroom strategy for students. Moreover, the data indicate a positive impact on students' content learning and improved skills (e.g. collaboration and interaction). The content material which was developed for the specific course (251 CI) could be utilized for the remaining students enrolled in this course. The researcher recommends using the flipped classroom teaching strategy for courses in higher education, as the methodology can be extended and implemented through following a similar framework applied in this study.
الباحث: د. سامية بكري عبد العاطي - أ. سلوى علي حمصاني
عنوان الدراسة: فاعلية استخدام استراتيجيات ما وراء الذاكرة في تحسين التذكر والتحصيل الأكاديمي وخفض قلق الاختبار
في مقرر نظريات الشخصية لدى طالبات كلية التربية بجامعة الملك سعود
المجلة العلمية: مجلة دراسات عربية في التربية وعلم النفس، العدد 97، لشهر مايو 2018 م
مستخلص الدراسة:
تبحث الدارسة الحالية فاعلية استخدام استراتيجيات ما وراء الذاكرة في تحسين التذكر والتحصيل الأكاديمي وخفض قلق الاختبار في مقرر نظريات الشخصية. وقد استخدمت عينة تجريبية تتألف من ( 36 )طالبة من طالبات قسم علم النفس بكلية التربية جامعة الملك سعود بالرياض، ممن درسن المقرر خلال الفصل الدراسي الثاني لعام 2016 / 2017 ، تألفت من مجموعتين متجانستين تمثلان شعبتان من الشعب المختلفة التي تدرس المقرر: 1 ( مجموعة تجريبية: تتألف من (14 )طالبة ممن تتراوح أعمارهن بين ( 20 - 24 )عاماً، بمتوسط قدره ( 21.21 ) وانح ا رف معياري 1.42 ،( 2)مجموعة ضابطة: تتألف من ( 22 )طالبة تتراوح أعمارهن بين ( 20 - 32 )عاماً، بمتوسط (22.14 )وانح ا رف معياري ( 2.53 )، وقد تم تدريس المقرر للمجموعة التجريبية وفقاً لخطة تدريسية جديدة مقترحة تتضمن دمجاً للتدريب على أنشطة ومهام استراتيجيات ما وراء الذاكرة،
وقد تم إجراء قياسات قبلية وقياسات بعدية لمتغيرات البحث من خلال بعض المقاييس المُعدة لهذا الغرض. وقد أوضحت النتائج فاعلية الخطة المقترحة في تحسين التذكر والتحصيل دون قلق الاختبار. وتقودنا الدارسة إلى عدد من التطبيقات العملية المتنوعة في مجالي علم النفس والتربية.
الباحث: د. أحمد عزمي
عنوان الدراسة: A Project-Based Framework for Teaching and Assessment of Design Modules
المجلة العلمية: International Journal of Engineering Education (IJEE), Volume 33, 2017
مستخلص الدراسة:
In this paper, we propose a project-based framework to help teaching and assessment of Architectural design modules in an informative and fair way. The framework is based upon criteria-based assessment and uses rubrics to guide the assessment process. Using this framework, the students can fully understand the evaluation criteria by practicing peer-to-peer evaluation, and instructors can have useful feedback about weaknesses of their students and/or their teaching methodologies. By mapping students’ results into required students’ skills, monitoring of students over several levels of study becomes possible; this supports efficient progressive learning. The proposed approach has been evaluated by using it to assess A group of thirty students in design-1 module; then their results were compared to another group of thirty assessed heuristically without it. The initial evaluation of the approach shows its effectiveness
