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Towards a Theory for Supporting Creativity in Schools
Education recognizes that creativity is important for students and society. However, teachers have scant direction about how to support it, in part because current understanding of what works is piecemeal, as is the empirical ... -
Stakeholder voices: Validity argument for score meaning and use of the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC) in international business workplaces in South Korea
Competent English communication skills are essential to success within international business workplaces. To assess employees’ qualifications for international businesses, international companies have used the Test of ... -
A Pedagogy of Selflessness: a Multiple Case Study Exploring the Cultivation and Expression of Student Selflessness in an Ontario Grade 6 Classroom
In a society where self-indulgence is aggressively promoted, sapping the vitality of our youth and adults, educators have a moral obligation to react. This study offers a reaction through a pedagogy of selflessness. A ... -
The Internationalization of Education and its Effects on the Self-Efficacy of Rural Secondary Mathematics Teachers in Supporting English Language Learners
The internationalization of education is happening in secondary schools across Canada. Between 2015 and 2017, the number of international students arriving in Canada increased by 41 percent. Ontario alone hosted over 121,000 ... -
A Grounded Theory of Creative Identity
It is no small irony that studies of creative identity have themselves tended to lack creativity. Drawing on interviews with participants who self-identify as creative, this study goes beyond conventional notions of creative ... -
Chronic Health Conditions in the Classroom: A Pan-Canadian Assessment of Adolescent Psychosocial Functioning
Due to a variety of factors (e.g., absence from school, being physically unable to take part in certain activities), students with Chronic Health Conditions (CHCs) are at a greater risk of low academic achievement and less ... -
An Historical Examination of the Secondary Mathematics Curriculum in Ontario Through Two Lenses: Curriculum Policy Documents and Reflections of Leaders in the Field
The secondary mathematics curriculum in Ontario has gone through many revisions and renewals during the past 60 years. Current curriculum and policy documents are readily available, yet previous documents are not easily ... -
Preparing Elementary Preservice Teachers to Integrate Information and Communications Technology in Teaching and Learning: Exploring the Intended, Enacted, and Experienced Curriculum
The goal of this case study was to understand and identify the supporting factors to prepare elementary preservice teachers to integrate information and communication technology (ICT) in teaching and learning. My interest ... -
Exploring the Washback Effects of the Chinese National Matriculation English Test (NMET) on Student Learning and Their Test Anxiety
Washback refers to the effects of language testing on teaching and learning (Alderson & Wall, 1993). Washback studies have been frequently conducted in educational fields in the past several decades (Alderson & Wall, 1993; ... -
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 ...
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