QSpace at Queen's University: Recent submissions
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Teacher assessment literacy: a review of international standards and measures
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2016-08-01)Assessment literacy is a core professional requirement across educational systems. Hence, measuring and supporting teachers’ assessment literacy have been a primary focus over the past two decades. At present, there are a ... -
Re-conceptualizing classroom assessment fairness: A systematic meta-ethnography of assessment literature and beyond
(Elsevier BV, 2018-03-01)Conceptualizing fairness in student assessment at classroom levels has been an area of focus in recent years given the growing emphasis on assessment-driven teaching and educational accountability across educational systems. ... -
Approaches to Classroom Assessment Inventory: A New Instrument to Support Teacher Assessment Literacy
(Informa UK Limited, 2016-10-01)Teacher assessment literacy has become a central priority across many educational systems in North America and elsewhere in response to growing accountability demands. Although many scholars have aimed to measure teacher ... -
Supporting evidence use in networked professional learning: the role of the middle leader
(Informa UK Limited, 2017-04-03)Background: In Canada, contemporary collaborative professional learning models for educators utilise multiple forms of evidence to inform practice. Commonly, two forms of evidence are prioritised: (a) research-based evidence ... -
Student perspectives on assessment for learning
(Informa UK Limited, 2018-01-02)Assessment for learning (AfL) has become a widespread approach across many educational systems. To date, AfL research has emphasized teachers’ knowledge, skills, and practices, with few studies examining students’ responses ... -
Students’ critical incidents of fairness in classroom assessment: an empirical study
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019-05-14)Conceptualizing fairness through social psychology theory has recently been called for in classroom assessment (CA) literature. This study used two open-ended questionnaires to explore university students’ critical incidents ... -
Teachers’ approaches to classroom assessment: a large-scale survey
(Informa UK Limited, 2018-07-04)Classroom assessment has become a cornerstone of today’s standards-based system of education. However, recent policy developments, professional standards, and variable assessment education have led to significant variability ... -
Systemic professional learning through collaborative inquiry: Examining teachers' perspectives
(Elsevier BV, 2017-10-01)Collaborative Inquiry (CI) engages teachers to jointly inquire into a shared problem of practice. The majority of CI research presents qualitative case studies of individual collaborative inquires; few studies directly ... -
Changing approaches to classroom assessment: An empirical study across teacher career stages
(Elsevier BV, 2018-04-01)Research indicates that there is considerable variability in teachers' approaches to assessment resulting in different learning cultures for students. The primary purpose of the study is to examine the relationship between ... -
Conceptualising fairness in classroom assessment: exploring the value of organisational justice theory
(Informa UK Limited, 2019-03-25)Fairness has recently moved into the spotlight as a core foundation of classroom assessment (CA). However, despite its significance for high-quality CA, fairness definitions and theories have been limited in the literature. ... -
Investigating the impact of endothelial BMPR2 loss on the proliferative response to bone morphogenetic protein 9 in pulmonary arterial hypertension
Objective: Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a disease of proliferative vascular occlusion that is strongly linked to heterozygous mutations in BMPR2, the gene encoding the bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) type II ... -
Improved recipes for leuco-crystal violet micelle gel dosimeters
An optimized recipe for a radiochromic micelle (RM) leuco-crystal violet (LCV) gel dosimeter was proposed using full-factorial designed experiments and model-based optimization. Linear regression models were used to optimize ... -
APPLICATION OF MOLYBDENUM AND THALLIUM ISOTOPES AS INDICATORS OF PALEOREDOX CONDITIONS AND GENESIS OF HYPER-ENRICHED BLACK SHALE (HEBS) DEPOSITS, PEEL RIVER, YUKON
Hyper-enriched black shale (HEBS) deposits, such as those hosted in Devonian black shales of northern Yukon, are a globally significant source of a variety of economically important metals, particularly nickel, copper, ... -
Effect of Scattered-Site Housing Using Rent Supplements and Intensive Case Management on Housing Stability Among Homeless Adults With Mental Illness A Randomized Trial
(2015-03)IMPORTANCE: Scattered-site housing with Intensive Case Management (ICM) may be an appropriate and less-costly option for homeless adults with mental illness who do not require the treatment intensity of Assertive Community ... -
Preliminary Trial of an Online Acceptance-based Behavioural Treatment for Military, Police, and Veterans with Chronic Pain
(2017-12)Introduction: Chronic pain is a serious health issue in Canada but an even greater issue in military populations. Individuals experiencing chronic pain frequently find attending in-person treatment sessions difficult because ... -
How Military Life Affects Us All: the Mental Health of Military Children
(2016-11)In Canada over 64,000 children under the age of 18 have at least one parent in active military service. Military families experience unique life events that can have an impact on the mental health of the children. While ... -
PTSD vs. Moral Injury: A Scoping Review
(2018-04)While Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has garnered much research attention, the concept of moral injury has recently been increasingly raised. This scoping review was undertaken to explored how the literature ... -
Yoga and Canadian Armed Forces Members' Well-Being: An Analysis Based on Select Physiological and Psychological Measures
(2016-04)INTRODUCTION: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric illness that may develop following a traumatic event or a situation involving the threat of death or serious injury to oneself or others. PTSD is often ... -
Prazosin for Treating Sleep Disturbances in Adults With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials
(2016-03)OBJECTIVE: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a disorder with significant sleep morbidity and limited treatment options. Prazosin may constitute a novel management approach and has been tested recently in a number of ... -
Homogeneously-Catalyzed Coupling Reactions in Switchable Solvents
Due to the increasing environmental impact of society, it is imperative that current industrial processes be modified and new industrial processes be implemented in order to reduce environmental harm. However, these new ...