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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Canadian universities"”.
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Attending to the ethical principles in Canadian universities
… the present state of ethical standards in universities. Drawing on the work of five faculty members who, in 1966, co-authored a discussion paper titled, "Ethical Principles in University Teaching", this work will ascertain the extent to which codes of ethics are providing the intended …
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CREATING RECOMMENDATIONS ON EATING DISORDER POLICIES AND PRACTICES AT CANADIAN UNIVERSITIES
… for eating disorder policies and practices for Canadian universities. The rise in eating disorder cases among university students in recent years obliges higher education institutions to address this issue. Previous studies have examined the most beneficial eating disorder practices in the …
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Tempered radicals and porous boundaries: the challenges and complexities of anti-harassment work in Canadian universities
… research involving an overview of 44 policies at Canadian universities and 21 interviews with anti-harassment practitioners across the country, this thesis explores the challenges faced by anti-harassment practitioners working with legally defined institutional harassment discrimination policies. …
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How Can Canadian Universities Tell Stories About Indigenous Engagement That Amplify Indigenous Voices and Advance Indigenous Objectives?
This study explores how Canadian universities frame Indigenous engagement through their public communications, potentially marking the first comprehensive analysis within this context. By analyzing university communications published between 2022 and 2023, this research establishes how current …
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Death in the Curriculum: A Terror Management Theory Assessment of Emotions and Mortality Reminders in Post-Secondary Interdisciplinary Environmental Education Courses at Selected Canadian Universities
… salience reminders (MSR) and emotions in the Canadian post-secondary IEE curriculum. Content analysis of faculty interviews and curricular materials revealed Fear as the prevalent emotion associated with death-thought prompts and an overall negative emotional load within eight courses taught …
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Beyond the Numbers: Gaining Perspective on the Mathematics Problem Towards The Successful Transition of Students into University Mathematics
… programming for incoming students in Western Canadian universities. Using hermeneutic phenomenology, this study found that participants view mathematics with a dual lens, which creates unique problems in mathematics lecture halls. Moreover, participants perceive that the dual nature of …
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An Argument-Based Approach to the Validity of Interpretation and Use of Chinese High School Students' Grades across Educational Contexts
… high school students’ grades for admission into Canadian universities. Inspired by the argument-based approaches to validity (e.g., Kane, 2006, 2013), the structure of validity argument is adopted as a means to systematically collect evidence, coherently analyze evidence, and present an …
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“Nunca Compré un café”: Lived Experiences of international ESL Latino Students at the University of Regina
… to both ESL/international students as well as universities. Despite some annual fluctuations, Canada is among the top fifth of countries regarding international post-secondary enrolment. Therefore, Canadian universities are among the universities that need to adapt to numerous challenges that …
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Analyzing Student Readiness for Online Learning in Higher Education
… has the potential to serve as a model for other Canadian universities seeking to improve their online educational offerings. Currently, there is limited research on the intricate dynamics between students and their academic institutions in the context of online learning. This case study delves …
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Cooperative education and organizational socialization of university graduates.
… engineering and engineering-related programs at Canadian universities. It was theorized that the cooperative experience would result in a higher level of socialization to the organization than to the profession or to academia. It was expected that this higher level of organizational socialization …
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Canadian University Statements and University Community Responses Following the Murder of George Floyd
… global attention and compelled Canada’s research universities to respond to widespread social unrest. This study employs content analysis and critical discourse analysis to examine how power was integrated into statements issued by Canadian universities in spring and summer 2020. In the first …
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The Rise Of Null Hypothesis Significance Testing As The Gold Standard In Psychology, 1940-55
… By reviewing course catalogues from six major Canadian universities from 1940-55 and situating my findings in the broader historical context, I aim to disentangle how, and why, NHST became the gold standard of psychological statistics during this time.
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Slim chance : adult students' access to university-administered merit-based undergraduate scholarships
… access to undergraduate scholarships at one Canadian university. Framed by understanding of relational differences between members of social groups and by how formal equality can result in differing experiences for those who are substantively different, this thesis first identities how adult …
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A Study of Drop-out Chinese International Students from a Canadian Pre-University English Language Improvement Program: Acculturation Experiences and Challenges
… students coming to Canada for higher education, Canadian universities are offering diverse English Language Improvement Programs (ELIP) to increase education opportunities. However, some Chinese international students are found cannot pass this program, eventually result in withdrawing. The …
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Cultural Preparedness of Adult Educators: A Changing Dynamic in Higher Education
… international undergraduate students enrolled in Canadian universities and colleges have grown from 22,000 in the year 2000 to 2.2 million in 2022. While international students embark on their post-secondary journey of discovery, we as educators also embark on a journey of discovery to explore how …
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An Exploration of Professors’ Use of Twitter in Higher Education
Scant research has explored how professors in Canadian universities use Twitter as a teaching tool or to augment knowledge about their subject disciplines. This case study employed a mixed-method approach to examine how professors in an Ontario university use Twitter. Using a variation of the …
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Women's Career Development: The Lived Experience of Canadian University Women Presidents
As of July 2011, the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) reported 17 of Canada’s 95 universities were led by women. While this represents considerable change from 1974, when Pauline Jewett became the first woman president to lead a co-educational Canadian university, progress …
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Exploring Academic Acculturation Experiences of Chinese International Students with Low Oral English Proficiency: A Musically Enhanced Narrative Inquiry
… and internationalization, 97 percent of Canadian universities offer international experiences to students. Chinese international students are the biggest international student group in Canada, and they are also the group with the lowest spoken English scores. Studies have demonstrated …
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A Narrative Inquiry into International Students' Lived Journeys of Counselling in Canada
Most Canadian universities have recruitment policies and strategies for internationalizing their student population. International students represented more than 17% of the total student population in the 2020/2021 academic year. Despite their representation, not much is known about their …
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Perceived Norms about Coping-Motivated Drinking Mediate the Relations Between Social Anxiety and Alcohol Use and Related Problems
… Participants were ages 18 to 29 from six Canadian universities and completed an online cross- sectional survey measuring social anxiety levels, perceived approval of specific risky drinking behaviours, alcohol use frequency, and alcohol-related problems. Mediation analyses showed that …
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