Background/purpose: STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education is becoming increasingly important in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), due to the country's rapid economic expansion and the demand for STEM-qualified graduates. Curriculum creators and policymakers have realized the importance of integrating STEM education at…

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of a Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) enrichment program on grade 10 high-achieving students' creativity in science and problem-solving skills. The participants comprised a total of 87 students in grade 10 from three schools in Al Ain city, Abu Dhabi. The study used…

Creativity and creative problem-solving are seen as the most important components of education today. This situation reveals the need to identify students' creative problem-solving characteristics. This study, it was aimed to examine the creative problem-solving characteristics of gifted and non-gifted students in terms of giftedness diagnosis,…

All private and public schools in the UAE had to run online classes as they closed their face-to-face classes due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring of 2021. In this context, the purpose of this study was to investigate the indicators of high school students' performance in online chemistry classes in a private school in Al Ain, UAE. A…

The aim of this research is to examine the effects of various variables (cognitive flexibility, school achievement, physics course success, gender, popularity, family income level) and communication that occur between students in the problem solving process of the high school students. The research, which was designed according to the mixed…

If educators want to engage girls in learning, they must align teaching practices with girls' specific needs. In a study modeled after Reichert and Hawley's study of boys, the authors learned that lessons with hands-on learning, elements of creativity, multimodal projects, and class discussions all worked to stimulate girls'…

The study compares overexcitability scores of Turkish 10th graders who are grouped in terms of their intellectual abilities, motivation, creativity and leadership as well as gender. 711 students who were administered Raven Advanced Progressive Matrices Test (APM) were divided into three intellectual ability categories. From this pool, 105 subjects…