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Enhanced single school model : one Faculty of Education's variation of the professional development school
(2003)
The Enhanced Single School Model (ESSM) was created to provide teacher candidates with an extended practicum during their professional year. It included two core teaching blocks and weekly volunteer time at a single school ...
Educational experiences of young lesbians, bisexuals, and gays / by Petra Latt.
(2007)
This study examines the high school experiences of nine members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ) community. It describes how heterosexuality, homophobia and heterosexism were endured by these youth ...
Educational experiences of aging nontraditional undergraduate students / by John MacKenzie.
(2007)
This qualitative study describes the educational experiences of older full-time nontraditional undergraduate students. The participants in this study were over 40 years old and came from varying educational backgrounds. ...
Making meaning of whiteness : explorations by white community college faculty / by Frances Trowsse.
(2007)
This study examines Whiteness from the perspectives of White college faculty. The participants in this study responded to a letter of invitation to volunteer for this study. A total of 12 White faculty participated in this ...
Chinese students' later-year experiences in Canadian universities / by Shimei Zang.
(2007)
The mosaic of Canadian university campuses is changing to reflect the presence of more and more minority students, including both Chinese international and immigrant students. This qualitative study explored what Chinese ...
The effect of removing examinees with low motivation on item response data calibration
(2014-01-22)
Many item-response models (IRM) used to estimate student abilities and test item parameters in
large-scale assessments (LSA) do not account for the effect of student low motivation. This
effect may pose a threat to the ...
Contextualized garden-based mathematics
(2018)
Research has investigated the use of locally valued activities to contextualize mathematics for
First Nations students; for example, Beatty and Blair (2015), Lipka, Sharp, Adams, and Sharp
(2007) , Nicol, Archibald, and ...
Climate change education : a portfolio
(2018)
The focus of this portfolio is climate change education, with a particular emphasis on the challenges facing educators in Alberta where economic matters are often prioritized over environmental ones and the lessons we can ...
Leadership in a flattened organization: conditions for creating sustained collective efficacy
(2018)
This portfolio aims to determine the characteristics or traits that are required to lead system-wide educational change, specifically, a flattening of the traditional hierarchal structure in a school board. Through a review ...
Restorative practices in education: building teacher capacity and empowering student voice
(2018)
How might I support educators to adopt a proactive mindset and develop the skills to
respond to conflict restoratively? How might I empower students to take ownership for, and
work toward, resolving conflicts that occur ...