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The Education Data Issues Model : using a knowledge mobilization framework to examine teachers' engagement with large scale assessment data as a means to enhance student learning
(2012-11-10)
The purpose of this research was to examine the Education Data Issues Model (EDIM), as a useful conceptual framework through which to study teachers' engagement with large scale assessment data as a means to enhance student ...
Cross-cultural Organizations and the Empowerment of First Nations Learners
(2016)
By examining the tensions around First Nations learners wedged between competing organizational visions, this research exposes the conflicting funding enticements that impede maximized empowerment for First Nations adult ...
First Nations student engagement in secondary school: enhancing student success in a northern Eeyou community
(2015-08-05)
This study investigated engagement and disengagement factors for high school
students in a northern Eeyou community using a mixed methods participatory approach.
A quantitative survey, administered to a stratified sample ...
Gendered media representations of sexiness and their effects on girls' educational experiences
(2014-12-05)
Using the Boys and Girls Club of Thunder Bay as a case study, this research
focuses on how girls receive, understand, and resist dominant messages of femininity,
heterosexuality, and the body that value sexiness over ...
"What guides us here?" Exploring community health nurses' experiences of moral distress
(2015-08-25)
The concept of moral distress was first developed in the mid 1980’s by the American philosopher Dr. Andrew Jameton. Since then, moral distress has been studied in many health care practice settings and among various ...
Constructing unitizing: the critical strategies and models that build this essential mathematical concept
(2015-06-15)
The focus of this longitudinal case study was to investigate the progressive development
of unitizing in a cohort of students receiving reform-oriented mathematics instruction.
One-on-one videotaped mathematics interviews ...
The role of co-construction of the clock model in the development of fractional understanding in a grade 4/5 classroom
(2014-01-22)
The focus of this case study was to determine the impact of the co-construction and use of the clock model in the development of fractional understanding in a Grade 4/5 classroom. A pretest, instruction, midtest, intervention, ...
Cutting edge controversy: The politics of animal dissection and responses to student objection
(2012-11-10)
This mixed methods study investigated the experiences and perspectives of former Ontario high school students and current Ontario science and biology teachers toward animal dissection, objection to dissection, and choice ...
The culture of rape: examining causes and educating for a rape-free society
(2014-12-05)
This thesis explores factors, influences, and causes of rape through social constructivist and feminist lenses, and makes recommendations for improving sex education to address and challenge rape myths and rape culture in ...
Social justice and equity : exploring the perspectives of senior administrators on whiteness and racism in postsecondary education
(2015-08-05)
This study explored senior administrators‘ perspectives on Whiteness and racism in postsecondary education. The study focused on Canadian senior administrators at postsecondary institutions located in 2 provinces and in 2 ...