The first year of teaching poses massive challenges that lead to attrition among novice teachers. School communities often fail to provide adequate support to novice teachers to help them adapt to their new professional environments. In Saudi Arabia, attrition among novice teachers is a significant problem that hinders the development of the…

A research training module was designed to help graduate students locate, read and comprehend art abstracts and full-text articles that they need for their assignments, term papers and theses. At the end of the training module, the students were posttested. They were given individual research projects for which they had to select the search terms,…

National plans in higher education institutions are being developed in various aspects of the academic world for technology integration. Short online training has the potential for accelerating and facilitating the implementation of those plans. So far, a little is known about the suitability of this mode of training for faculty members'…