An-Najah Scholars

Constructing norms for selected physical fitness items as an indicator for sport selection among sports superior student at the University of Jordan. The purpose of the current study was to construct norms for physical fitness items (cardio vascular endurance, agility, and explosive power) at the university of Jordan sports superior students for sports proficiency list. The descriptive approach was used. The sample of the study consisted of 530 students (360 males) and 170 females and were chosen purposively among those students during the year of (2006-2008).

The World has recently witnessed a growing interest in young learner EFL programs. Research results regarding the value of such programs are not conclusive. This brings to the foreground the importance of conducting research studies that evaluate the practical achievements of such early start programs in various contexts. This paper attempts to shed some light on the controversial issues related to the influence of early start English programs on children’s achievement of English as a foreign language.

The population charts issued in the West Bank in 2007 show that more than 41.3% of the total population are under the age of 15. Moreover nearly 4.7% of the laborers are under the age of 18. These results have been taken into serious consideration by researchers and experts in this field hoping that such a problem can be diagnosed and treated. This study is taking the variables of this issue through statistical analysis, clarification and discussion of the data by using means, Chi-square test dependant and independent variables.

The research tries to uncover the roots of the Palestinian popular song and takes it back to its origins, which relate to the joint assane, that lies deep in the human being hollow. The over-lapped relationship reaped, so much so it became a ritual, entered in luton nujoma, circulated in the popular memory like a wavering warble, connecting with the eternity, the finite with the infinite, and the first of things with their last.

This research addresses an important issue affecting the society's psychological security of orphans. The research has defined the psychological security and demonstrated its significant in Islam Jurisprudence .It also showed how to achieve this aspect and its influence in the Muslim society. The research followed analytical critical method. The study concluded that this concept is vital in Islamic Jurisprudence and it is aright for the orphan which should be given to him. It also concluded that the true care of the orphan supersedes the food and money to include the psychological care

This paper investigates the demographic, economic and social dimensions of poverty phenomenon in the developmental Central Region of Jordan. It aims to identify the concept, the means of measurement and the reasons behind poverty in Jordan.

This study aimed at identifying the difficulties that encounter the practical education students in the Hashemite University and Al-Isra Private University. The sample of the study consisted of (133) male and female students. They were (73) students from the Hashemite University, and (60) from Al-Isra Private University who registered the first term in 2007/2008. A questionnaire was developed. It was composed of (26) items and divided into five domains: cooperative school, practical education programme, student- teacher, cooperative teacher and the academic supervisor.

This study aimed at proposing a list of the constituents of Sacred Jerusalem's image to be included in the Arabic textbooks of the basic school in Jordan. The study aimed as well at exploring the extent to which such constituents existed, be in sequence and had an integrative nature in the subject Arabic textbooks. In order to have these objectives attained, a made-valid instrument was prepared for analyzing the image of Sacred Jerusalem following the 'construction model of analysis'.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of teaching program on the development of disabled students, self – concept. The sample of this study consisted of 28 male and female disabled students. They participated in a 6 – week teaching program and completed a self – concept survey developed by the researcher. The results showed that the teaching program had appositive effect on the self – concept of the disabled students. The researcher recommended giving more attention to the self – concept in the educational programs.

This study aims to designing training program directed to brain and to knowing its impact in developing the element of reaction time. Experimental course has been used which fits the aims of the study and its sample, which was the third grade students whose age were from 9-10 for the year of 2008-2009. The sample consisted of two groups, they were control group and experimental group, each includes ten persons. The program was applied for ten weeks.