The Effectiveness of Using Critical Concepts and Outcomes in Distance Learning via Darsak Platform during Corona Pandemic in Compensating Students' Educational Loss in AL-Mazar Ash-Shamali Directorate of Education: Teachers' Perspectives

RESEARCH ARTICLE The Effectiveness of Using Critical Concepts and Outcomes in Distance Learning via Darsak Platform during Corona Pandemic in Compensating Students' Educational Loss in AL-Mazar Ash-Shamali Directorate of Education: Teachers' Perspectives Dr: Faisal Saleh Al-Jarrah Part-time lecturer, Irbid National University, Jordan Part-time lecturer, Mu’tah University, Jordan Educational supervisor and expert at Al-Mazar Ash-Shamali Directorate of Education, Jordan Abstract The present study aimed at investigating the effectiveness of using critical concepts and outcomes in distance learning via Darsak platform during “covid-19” pandemic in compensating students' educational loss from the perspectives of the teachers in AL-Mazar Ash-Shamali Directorate of Education. To achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher prepared an electronic questionnaire that consisted of (20) items. The questionnaire was distributed electronically to the sample of the study which consisted of (220) male and female teachers who were randomly chosen from the population of the study. The validity and reliability of the study questionnaire were ensured, and the descriptive analytical approach was used to analyze the data collected. The findings of the study stressed the importance of critical concepts and outcomes used in the distance learning program in compensating the students' educational loss. The findings also revealed that there were no statistically significant differences at (α ≤ 05.0) among the participants towards the use of critical concepts and outcomes in the distance learning program through Darsak Platform in compensating educational loss due to the gender variable. Keywords: Critical concepts and outcomes, distance learning program, educational loss, Darsak platform, teachers.

Overcoming the Obstacles of Implementing the Educational Leadership Standards in the Distance Learning Program in the Light of Corona Pandemic from the School Principals’ Perspectives in the Directorate of Education of the Northern Mazar District / Jordan

This study aimed at overcoming the obstacles of implementing educational leadership standards in the distance learning program in light of Corona pandemic from the school principals’ point of view in the Directorate of Education of the Northern Mazar District / Jordan. To achieve the aims of the study, the researcher purposefully selected the research sample (44 principals) in the Directorate of Education of the Northern Mazar. The descriptive-analytical approach was used. The study emphasized the importance of implementing the educational leadership standards by school principals in the Directorate of Education of the Northern Mazar. Moreover, the study revealed that there were no statistically significant differences at (α ≤ 5.0) between the responses of the study sample in the practice of school principals to the following educational leadership standards: leading the development of the school, the directorate development program, the community school. In addition, the study concluded that the leadership in the educational system is based on standards in the Directorate of Education of the Northern Mazar in the distance learning program according to the Gender variable. The study recommended that the standards of educational leadership should be implemented in distance learning programs, as an advanced technological system, to meet the challenges of the educational process. Keywords: Standards, educational leadership, obstacles, distance education program, school principals

Environmental Policy and Its Role in Achieving Sustainability Requirements: An Analytical Study at the General Company for Battery Industry / Babylon 1 Factory

Environmental policy represents one of the important administrative issues for organizations that seek to have a bright future. They are required to make great and real efforts to diagnose the environmental dimension, evaluate environmental efforts, and think about effective means, mechanisms and ways to protect the environment in the future and to correct past mistakes. The aim of this research is to show the impact that the environmental policy can play in achieving the requirements of sustainability. The research relied on the independent variable represented by the environmental policy, and the dependent variable 17 السياسة البيإية ودور ا ف تحقيق متطلبا االستدامة Millennium Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 2(4): (2021) on sustainability and its requirements represented by (rationalization of resource consumption, reducing pollution, reducing the impact on human health, and using renewable energy). The descriptive analytical approach was adopted in the completion of this research, and it included answering the questions related to the research problem by testing two main hypotheses, with regard to correlation and influence relations. The General Battery Industry / Babel 1 Factory in Baghdad, and the statistical program (SPSS.V.23) was used to extract the results. This research reached a set of conclusions regarding environmental policy, the most prominent of which is that it has a continuous and effective positive impact that occurs due to internal and external environmental factors in achieving sustainability, which was represented by the validity of the two hypotheses of the research with the existence of a link and impact of environmental policy on sustainability. Keywords: Environment, environmental policy, sustainability

The Relevance of Higher Education Outcomes to the Needs of the Palestinian Labor Market

The Relevance of Higher Education Outcomes to the Needs of the Palestinian Labor Market Bader Hamdana Tahani Jaffalb a Faculty of Business and Management, University of Palestine, Palestine b Sustainable Development Institute, Al-Quds University, Palestine Abstract: The study aimed to find out the relevance of higher education outcomes to the needs of the Palestinian labor market. The study used the descriptive analytical approach through describing and analyzing data on higher education and the Palestinian labor market during the period (2010-2018). The study found a number of results: a high unemployment rate among university graduates in Palestine, weak absorptive capacity of the Palestinian labor market, and the failure of Palestinian universities to adopt productive investment through undertaking productive projects. Based on the results of the study, the study recommended coordinating between the responsible authorities and studying the labor market and identifying its needs in order to accept students in the required majors in appropriate numbers. In addition, the study recommended coordinating with the private sector in order to provide job opportunities for university graduates according to the needs of the labor market. Keywords: Relevance, higher education, labor market, unemployment

Applicability of Accounting to Ecosystems in Iraq: A Study of Habbaniyah Lake

إمكانية تطبيق المحاسبة عن النظم الايكولوجية في العراق: دراسة حالة بحيرة الحبانية مهند عبد حسين أ.م. د. فيان عبدالرحمن ياسين الجامعة التقنية الوسطى / الكلية التقنية الادارية, بغداد المخلص: تنبع أهمية هذا البحث من أهمية تطبيق المحاسبة على النظم الايكولوجية في العراق , حيث توفر محاسبة النظم الايكولوجية بيانات كمية وقيمية وحسابات معمقة للنظم الايكولوجية تتمثل في حسابات مدى وحالة النظم الايكولوجية , كذلك نتيجة نشاط النظم الايكولوجية وحساب الموجودات للنظم الايكولوجية, وقد تضمن الجانب النظري الإطار المفاهيمي لماهية للنظم الايكولوجية وخصائصها وطبيعة عملها وأهميتها والتعريف بمحاسبة النظم الايكولوجية وكيفية تطبيقها , أمَا الجانب العملي للبحث فقد استندت الدراسة على البيانات الحقيقة المتوافرة والتي تم جمعها من الجهات ذات العلاقة بالنظام الايكولوجي لبحيرة الحبانية , وأمَا في ما يتعلق في قياس منافع وخدمات النظام الايكولوجي فقد تم الاعتماد على مقترحات المنظمات الدولية المهتمة في تطبيق المحاسبة عن النظم الايكولوجية , وقد تم التوصل الى إمكانية تطبيق المحاسبة عن النظم الايكولوجية في العراق , وأظهرت نتائج الحسابات الكمية أنً كمية تخزين المياه في النظام الايكولوجي تتناسب طرديا مع المنافع والخدمات للنظام الايكولوجي و المرونة في استقبال الاطلاقات المائية التي يمتاز بها النظام الايكولوجي تتناسب عكسيا مع تخفيض خطر الفيضان وأنٌ التدفقات المائية من خارج الدورة الهيدرولوجية تكون سلبية , أمٌا نتائج الحسابات القيمية فقد أظهرت معلومات مهمة عن النظام الايكولوجي (بحيرة الحبانية) تتمثل في حسابات النتيجة الموجبة لكل سنوات الدراسة وحسابات كمية وقيمية عن الموجودات للنظام الايكولوجي قيد الدراسة. الكلمات المفتاحية: محاسبة النظم الايكولوجية، النظم الايكولوجية, موجودات النظم الايكولوجية RESEARCH ARTICLE Applicability of Accounting to Ecosystems in Iraq: A Study of Habbaniyah Lake Muhannad Abd Hussain Dr. Vian Abdul Rahman Yaseen Middle Technical University / College of Administrative Technology, Baghdad Abstract: The significance of this research lies in the importance of applying accounting to ecosystems in Iraq. Ecosystem accounting provides quantitative and value data and certain calculations of ecosystem. It includes measuring the level and status of ecosystems, as well as the effect of ecosystem functioning and valuating ecosystems assets, the theoretical framework includes the conceptual framework of what ecosystems are, their characteristics, nature of their function and their importance and the definition of the ecosystem accounting and how to apply it. As for the application of the practical side of the research, the study was based on the actual data available that collected from the relevant authorities of the ecosystem of Habbaniyah Lake. As for evaluating the ecosystem benefits and services, the proposals of international organizations interested in applying accounting to ecosystems have been relied upon. The applicability of applying accounting to ecosystems in Iraq has been reached, and the results of quantitative calculations showed that the amount of water storage in the ecosystem is directly proportional to the benefits and services of the ecosystem, and the flexibility to receive water releases that characterizes the ecosystem is inversely proportional to reducing the risk of flooding and that water flows from outside the hydrological cycle are negative. The results of the value calculations used in the research have revealed important information about the ecosystem (Habbaniyah Lake). This is represented in the positive result observed for all years of the study and the quantitative and value calculations of the ecosystem assets under study. Keywords: Ecosystem accounting, ecosystems, ecosystem assets

The Different Existing Patterns of Landholding System that Determine the Mode of Agrarian Change: A Case Study of Tangkhul Nagas

This paper focuses on the way tribal communities conceptualised the importance of land, and the different type of landholding pattern system that has affected this agricultural community. There are various intricacies involved in defining the ownership of land: It includes who should own the land and to whom the land should be given out in the form of leasing out for a cultivation purpose? For example, the so called “clan land” should be confined to the clan not outside. This paper, therefore, is an attempt to look at various customs and rituals which have an influence upon the various kinds of landholding ownership system and to make a specific case study of Tangkhul Nagas, situated in the Ukhrul district of Manipur, Northeast India. Keywords: Agricultural community, private land, clan land, community land, modernity, Christianity

A Review of the Causes of Japanese Students’ Educational Demotivation Through PROSPER Model

The purpose of the present project was to review the research studies which have been carried on educational demotivation among Japanese students in general. This project reviews the possible causes of educational demotivation among Japanese students which could lead to their underachievement at times and seeks to contribute to the body of wellbeing research studies which have been conducted on various levels of education in Japan. Based on research studies, many factors have been identified, such as psychological, social, and cultural aspects which have huge impacts on learners' motivation. Although many studies have focused namely on motivation, demotivation has not been given its due attention from scholars. Keywords: Educational demotivation, Japanese students, motivation, PROSPER model

Prevalence of Hypertension and Associated Risk Factors Among Women in a Rural Community in Bangladesh: A Cross-Sectional Study

The purpose of this cross-sectional quantitative study was to identify the prevalence and associated risk factors of hypertension among rural women. Data collection was carried out between March to June 2019 among 380 women in Kumarkhali Upazila, Kushtia, Bangladesh. Participants were interviewed with a structured questionnaire including background characteristics, anthropometric measurements, prevalence, and risk factors of hypertension. IBM SPSS version 25 was used for analyzing the data. The prevalence of hypertension and prehypertension among the total participants was 21.3% and 17.1%, respectively. The mean systolic and diastolic blood pressure was 126.65 (±19.31) mmHg and 77.21 (±12.51) mmHg. Association was found between the prevalence of hypertension and participant’s age, marital status, educational level, body mass index, intake of raw salt, secondary smoking, stress, and diabetes (p<0.05). Among the diabetic women, prehypertension and hypertension prevailed as 26.3% and 55.3% respectively. The lowest risk of hypertension was found with limited raw salt (aOR: 1.42) and red meat (aOR: 0.05) consumption. Hypertension was more likely to affect overweight (aOR: 3.98) and women aged 55 to 64 years (aOR: 13.44). Thus, effective and integrated intervention agendas are required for women, which can improve the rate of diagnosis and prevent uncontrolled hypertension in Bangladesh. Keywords: Prevalence, hypertension, women, blood pressure, risk factor, Bangladesh

Impact of Weather on Agriculture Commodity Market and the Price Discovery: An Empirical Analysis

This paper focused on studying the agricultural commodity prices in India and it's extreme volatility due to many reasons such as government interference, growth, market forces factors, regular floods and droughts, transport and warehousing problems, etc. These are contributing factors to demand fluctuations. In this case, the future market plays an important role in the economy. The demand for commodity futures has three particular economic functions: price discovery, price risk management, and price volatility. The future market plays a key role in the process of price discovery. The main aim of this system is to regulate prices to minimize uncertainty, to provide price signals to market traders for futures spot prices through the price discovery phase. So, this study emphasized the role of the derivative market in reducing the volatility of agricultural commodity prices in the Indian market. Keywords: volatility, future market, derivatives

Examining the Relationship between Teachers’ Perception and their Receptivity of Curriculum Integration at American Schools in Dubai, UAE

Any inquiry into a shift in the teaching practices and/or curriculum reform motion involves a coincident study on teachers' perceptions and their receptivity towards those practices and/or reform. This study assesses the relationship between teachers' perceptions and their receptivity of the curriculum integration approaches at American curriculum schools in Dubai, UAE. It aims to examine whether the perceptions and the receptivity of the teachers towards curriculum integration models are correlated. Fogarty's ten models of curriculum integration inform the theoretical framework. A quantitative, non-experimental survey constitutes the research approach and the lens of the postpositivism forms the research paradigm. A sample of 275 Math, Science and English teachers working at American curriculum schools in Dubai, represents the study participants. The findings show an overall positive teachers' perception towards curriculum integration and finds a positive correlation between teachers' perceptions and their receptivity to curriculum integration. Though teachers consider curriculum integration complicated and require major shift in the teaching practices, and has heavy work load, they show confidence towards curriculum integration. The presence of a positive correlation could suggest offering and incorporating curriculum integration servicing in the servicing of the school staff to increase their awareness and prepare them for curriculum reform towards integration in subjects. These findings could be generalized and could inform the education authorities to look for ways for driving the motion away from the subject-based curriculum through planning and conducting professional development about the different models of integration when in-servicing teachers at their schools. Keywords: Curriculum Integration, Teacher Perception, Teacher Receptivity, Dubai Schools