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Exploring the Alignment of the Secondary School Certificate English Examination with Curriculum and Classroom Instruction: a Washback Study in Bangladesh
In the nearly three decades of research, washback research has explored a range of factors such as teachers, students, and social contexts in order to understand how testing influences teaching and learning globally. ... -
A Study of Immigrant International Medical Graduates’ Re-Licensing in Ontario: Their Experiences, Reflections, and Recommendations
This study is about the lived re-licensing experiences of immigrant international physicians in Ontario who are commonly referred to as International Medical Graduates (IMGs). The study had a two-fold purpose, the first ... -
Passage Dependence of Multiple-Choice Items in Reading Comprehension Component of English Academic Test of Guangdong Province
With the deepening of the reform in examination and enrollment system in China, the English Academic Test plays an increasingly important role in selecting the secondary school graduates for institutions of higher vocational ... -
Reading Attitude as a Predictor of Reading Proficiency for Senior High School English Learners in China
As the concept of key competencies is highlighted as the emphasis and guideline: the pursuit of education should be combined with knowledge, skills, emotional attitude, cultural awareness, and morality, etc., students’ ... -
Syntactic Priming of Ditransitive and Dative Constructions within and across Languages in High School English Learners
Syntactic priming refers to the phenomenon in which people tend to produce a sentence structure that they have previously encountered. Syntactic priming research, taken as a useful tool for probing into bilingual syntactic ... -
Engaged Teachers Engaging Students: Elementary Pre-Service Teachers’ Social Constructivist Classrooms During Mathematical Problem Solving
The Ontario Ministry of Education has implemented numerous changes to elementary mathematics programs over the last four years. These modifications called for mathematics lead teachers in every elementary school, curricular ... -
School bus drivers’ perceptions of bullying on the bus: A mixed-methods study
Bullying is often overlooked on school buses, despite the fact that many students experience bus rides at the beginning and end of each school day. Given that bus drivers are often tasked as the lone adult supervisors of ... -
The Nature of Education in an Open-Plan School: A contextualized account
The physical environment of schools has undergone a number of changes in recent years. Along with the increasing integration of digital technology in classrooms, schools today are being designed and constructed with fewer ... -
Exploring Relationships Among Resilience, Engagement, Personality, and Performance in Teacher Education
Preservice teachers are the future of education and at the pinnacle of contemporary pedagogical practices, which could potentially influence generations of children. Investigating the relationships among preservice teachers’ ... -
Painting a Portrait of Organizational Evaluation Capacity in the Canadian Art Museum sector
Not only is research on program evaluation practice and capacity in art museums largely absent, but also the actual dimensions of evaluation capacity as they could be observed in these unique professional settings have ... -
Understanding and Supporting Student Thriving in the Ontario Kindergarten Classroom
Human thriving is often counterposed to survival and perceived as the ultimate achievable goal on a spectrum of human development and positive functioning. However, few researchers have attempted to directly tackle thriving ... -
A Case Study Exploring How Professional Education Programs at a Mid-sized Canadian University are Conceptualizing and Operationalizing Entry-to-practice Competence Frameworks
Entry-to-practice competence frameworks and competency-based approaches to professional education are becoming increasingly popular in Canada and on a global scale. Although competency-based medical education has the ... -
Evidence-informed policy development and enactment: A policy content evaluation of a provincial policy for improving the educational outcomes of youth in out-of-home care in Ontario
The dissertation explores the Joint Protocol for Student Achievement (JPSA) through a series of four interrelated papers. First, education data of 4,109 students were analyzed to understand the educational experiences of ... -
Second Place at the Polish Pow Wow
Abstract This paper begins with an Indigenous buffalo teaching. It is followed by aspects of my own story of Métis cultural rediscovery. My hope is this will provide insight into why I am undertaking this writing, as well ... -
An Examination of Personal Financial Literacy Teaching and Learning in Ontario High Schools
The purpose of the study was to examine the experiences of current high school students, teachers, and high school graduates in Ontario regarding their experiences with personal financial curriculum and teaching at the ... -
Disengaged and Disenchanted Adolescents: An Arts-Based Case Study
The pursuit of creating valuable learning experiences for adolescents is a complex challenge. The purpose of this study is to explore the experiences of a group of disengaged and disenchanted adolescents. I identified a ... -
The Bachelor of Health Science Online Program: a Look at Program Development Through the Eye of the Curriculum Committee Members
Delivery of an online education model is a trend that is increasing in popularity in today’s day and age. Although not a recent phenomenon, the technological development within the world of distance education would make ... -
Assessing Learning Skills and Work Habits in Ontario Secondary Schools
Teachers in all Canadian provinces, and in many jurisdictions around the world, are required to assess elements of student performance other than academic achievement. In Ontario, these assessments are reported in a section ... -
Comparison of Faculty Versus Structured Peer Feedback: Implications of Technical Skills Training
The surgical training environment has been required to adapt to multiple changes in recent years. Two challenges have placed significant burdens on traditional training methodology: the emerging need for critically reflective ... -
Reading Development: Exploring the Lived Experiences of Individuals with High Functioning Autism
Reading expands learning opportunities for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) by improving their communication and functional skills, and, in the long run, improving their quality of life. Research is needed ...
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