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Understanding Reading Comprehension Performance in High School Students
(2012-08-28)
The ability to extract meaning from text is an important skill. Yet many students struggle with effectively comprehending what they read. In comparison with research carried out with younger students, there is a lack of ...
Preservice Teachers' Beliefs about the Nature of Mathematics and Effective Use of Information and Communication Technology
(2012-07-05)
The purpose of this mixed methods study was to document and examine the beliefs held by preservice elementary teachers prior to entering a teacher education program concerning the nature of mathematics and their perceptions ...
Professionalism Through the Eyes of Female Elementary Teachers in Ontario
(2011-04-29)
Numerous changes in education in Ontario in the past few decades have lead to much discussion regarding the professionalism of teaching in Ontario. Some theorists suggest the changes are deprofessionalizing, leading to an ...
Understanding the Potential for Arts-Informed Inquiry in Program Evaluation
(2013-07-02)
Program evaluation is a form of systematic inquiry designed to meet the needs of those who are working on or who are responsible for a program. One challenge faced by the field of evaluation is responding to the increasing ...
Examining the Teaching and Learning of English in an Immersion Program in Honduras
(2015-04-30)
Research in bilingual education, including immersion education, has received increasing attention; yet such research does not have an empirical grounding in Central America, a geographic area of the world with an increasing ...
A Qualitative Study of Ontario Teachers’ Conceptualizations of Reading Fluency
(2014-09-24)
Research has identified fluency as a central component of skilled reading and as a skill that should be a driving force in the literacy curricula (Kuhn, Schwanenflugel & Meisinger, 2010). Learning to read, teaching children ...
Homework: How can it be 'Applied?'
(2015-05-28)
Homework provides an opportunity for practice and learning to occur outside the classroom, and research has consistently shown that it can have a positive influence on achievement. However, the preponderance of this research ...
How Training Development Officers Solve Novel Problems
(2014-10-16)
The purpose of this study is to explore how Training Development Officers (TDOs) solve novel problems. Unlike other organizations, the military grows its talent. After enrolment in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF), individuals ...
Eight Novice PHE Teachers' Perceptions of Engaging Adolescent Girls in Their Classrooms
(2014-10-01)
This qualitative study aimed to understand how new secondary school teachers (in years 0-5) approach the teaching of adolescent females in their physical education classes. As there is a significantly greater decline in ...
The Efficacy of a Volunteer-Administered Cognitive Stimulation Program in Two Long-Term Care Homes: A Randomized, Controlled Study
(2014-05-29)
Older adults who maintain their cognitive skills and abilities are able to live more independently than those whose skills have deteriorated. The costs (money, time, personnel) associated with providing cognitive stimulation ...