Faculty of Education Graduate Theses
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An Exploration of the Cognitive and Behavioural Dimensions of Law Students' Online Legal Research Processes
Legal research is an essential skill for lawyers and a fundamental part of Canadian law school curricula. In recent years, legal research has shifted from a print-based activity to an online one. Legal research educators ... -
THE IMPACT OF THE CHANGES IN PROVINCIAL LARGE-SCALE ASSESSMENTS ON TEACHERS’ SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT PRACTICES IN CANADIAN SECONDARY CLASSROOMS
Provincial large-scale assessment (LSA) programs in some Canadian provinces recently have undergone important changes. This study examined the driving forces for changes in provincial LSA programs and explored the impact ... -
Exploring the Lived Experience of Youth Who Have Been Suspended From Secondary School: A Narrative Inquiry
Despite empirical evidence suggesting that out of school suspensions do more harm than good, they are still commonplace in education system. According to the Ontario Ministry of Education, 33,030 secondary school students ... -
Interweaving Iiyiyiu (Cree) Ways of Knowing and Land-Based Learning with Science Curriculum at Waapinichikush Elementary School, Chisasibi, Quebec
This study is the result of work done in close collaboration and partnership with local Cree (Iiyiyiu) teachers, Elders and community members at Waapinichikush Elementary School in Chisasibi, Quebec, to identify approaches ... -
Using a Mixed Methods Approach to Study the Relationship Between Mathematics Anxiety, Mathematics Teacher Efficacy, and Mathematics Teaching Anxiety in Preservice Elementary School Teachers in Ontario
Preservice elementary school teachers are under ever increasing pressure to deliver quality mathematics instruction to their students. Mathematics anxiety and mathematics teacher efficacy are constructs that are commonly ... -
Examining the Interactions among Second Language Teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Knowledge of Metacognition, and Their Influence on Teaching Metacognition
Three critical constructs in relation to teachers’ instruction were examined in this study. They are pedagogical content knowledge, knowledge of metacognition, and the teaching of metacognition. Pedagogical content knowledge ... -
Challenges of Black and Other Minority Students Around Equity and Inclusion in a Postsecondary Institution in Ontario, Canada
In Canada statistics show that visible minorities represent 23.3% of the total Canadian population. The vast majority (94.8%) of the foreign-born population lives in Ontario (53.3%), British Columbia, Quebec, and Alberta. ... -
Exploring the Relationship Between Teachers’ Formative Classroom Assessment Practices and Students’ Self-Regulation in Kindergarten Classrooms
A concurrent mixed methods study design was used to explore possible relationships between teachers’ formative classroom assessment practices and students’ self-regulation in Kindergarten classrooms. A total of 8 female ... -
Investigating Teachers’ Perspectives on Using Students' First Language in the English as a Second Language Classroom in Guangzhou China
The widely-used monolingual approach, meaning avoiding or minimizing first language (L1) use in classrooms, by increasing the input in the second language (L2) in the course of learning can effectively develop students’ ... -
Students with Physical Disabilities in High School Drama Education: Stories of Experience
The dramatic arts have been shown to positively benefit students with disabilities; however, there has been little research examining how students with physical disabilities have experienced drama. Inspired by my own ... -
Investigating Relationships among Chinese High School Students’ Self-Assessment of English Skills, English Proficiency, and Their Perceptions towards Self-Assessment
It is widely accepted in education that self-assessment improves students’ learning and achievement, particularly in regard to foreign language acquisition. English curriculum standards for senior high school in China has ... -
Adult Literacy: Challenges Facing Adult Syrian Refugees With Minimal Or No Prior Formal Schooling
The 1951 Geneva Convention relating to the Status of Refugees describes a refugee as a person who "owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted... is unable to or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of ... -
Vulnerable, Valuable, and Vital: Exploring Perceptions of Academic Literacy in the First-Year College Classroom
The perspectives of college students and teachers regarding academic literacy are largely absent from literature on literacy in higher education, particularly in Canada. This study addresses this gap by centering the ... -
Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: Teachers’ Experiences with Interdisciplinary Integration in Technological Education
Though enrollment rates into many of TE and BBT programs have seen some decline, mostly due to revised requirements for the Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD), learners still stand to benefit from exposure and learning ... -
Campesino-a-Campesino Pedagogy, Peasant Protagonism, and the Spread of Agroecology: A Multi-Site Case Study
As more actors embrace agroecology as an alternative to industrial agriculture, it is important to recognize that the ways in which agroecology are taught and learned have a profound effect on whether or not the spread of ... -
Guided by Local Elders and Teachers: How Non-Indigenous Teachers Can Support First Nations and Métis Students in Northern Saskatchewan
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) Calls to Action report demands the better preparation of teachers to deliver Indigenous content (2015, p. 7). A major problem is that non-Indigenous teachers have not been ... -
Public School Kindergarten in Ontario - A Historical Perspective
Beginning in 1883, Ontario was the first, and for many decades the only province in Canada that has continuously provided kindergarten as part of a public education. In 2010, Ontario made another innovative policy decision ... -
Picture Delightful Calculations
This research presents an argument for situating shape grammars as the core component of drawing and design through observation, and as a core component for improving spatial reasoning and visual spatial perception, ... -
What Factors and Experiences Motivate Innovators? An Expectancy-Value-Cost Approach to Promoting Student Innovation
This multi-manuscript dissertation integrated a systematic literature review, interviews, and a developed survey instrument to investigate the expectancies, values, and costs that are involved in motivating current Canadian ... -
The Bullying Word: Exploring how Students, Parents, Teachers and Principals Interpret ‘Bullying’
Over the past 25 years, research, policies, programming and news reports have proactively tackled the evolving bullying problem, trying to remain ahead of the issue and provide relevant solutions for all educational community ...
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