• Differentiation in the Inclusive K-9 School 

  Everitt-Dallinger, Melissa (2018-04-23)

  The purpose of this paper is to answer the question - how are teachers adapting their teaching in inclusive classrooms? A review of current research studies will inform the answer. Given the diverse learning needs in today’s ...
• Place-Based Education: Improving Learning While Connecting Students to Community and Environment 

  Pasiechnyk, Corissa (2018-04-19)

  Place-based education is emerging as a progressive response to the standardized, decontextualized curricula that has historically and contemporarily characterized our education system. With foundations in environmental ...
• A review of students’ perceptions, engagement, and academic achievement in the flipped classroom 

  Bedi, Julie (2018-04-19)

  The flipped classroom is a pedagogical model designed to focus on a student-centered teaching technique that reverses the traditional educational arrangement. Short video lectures are viewed by students at home before the ...
• Grouping students by ability: Is there a difference in academic achievement? 

  Baker, Nicole (2018-04-19)

  Upon the renewal of international competition based on standardized assessments, grouping students by ability has been reintroduced into the education system. In this paper, I review the literature on grouping students and ...
• Scaffolding Reading Comprehension to Deepen Understanding of Text 

  Lovsund, Cherie (2018-04-18)

  Students are required to process large amounts of text, and they must be prepared to understand and evaluate text to gain meaning about the world around them. Reading comprehension is an essential component of the reading ...
• The Inclusion of LGBTQ Youth in Catholic Schools: Opportunities to facilitate their well-being 

  Gartner, Carmen (2018-04-16)

  Students who may or may not openly identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, or queer (LGBTQ) face institutionalized heterosexism and victimization in schools. These experiences can be amplified for those students ...
• Reading Engagement Through Young Adult Literature In the Junior High Classroom 

  Winch, Erin (2018-04-16)

  Motivating students to read print text for sustained periods of time is becoming increasingly difficult in the secondary classroom. Therefore, it is imperative that secondary English language arts teachers find ways to ...
• Effective Leadership Promoting Effective Change in Schools 

  El Cid, Caroline (2018-04-12)

  In order for K-12 schools to operate successfully, the structure of leadership is vital in facilitating change that will ultimately foster positive growth in teaching and learning. With curriculum changes, innovative ...
• A review of underlying factors in math anxieties 

  MacKinnon, Christina (2018-04-12)

  Abstract Math anxiety (MA) has been defined as a fear of math or an emotional negative feeling towards mathematical tasks and has been argued to have a significant impact on students’ mathematics learning, performance, ...
• Teacher-Initiated Communication with Parents: Preferred Types and Channels to Facilitate School-Home Relations and Enhance Student Performance and Motivation 

  El Cid, Pascal (2018-04-11)

  Parent-teacher communication involves teachers relating student academic- and school- information to students and parents through various means, including in-person dialogue, emails, and report cards. The literature on ...
• Formative Assessment in Elementary School: Promoting Self-Regulated Learning, Intrinsic Motivation, and Self-Efficacy 

  Keenan, Patricia (2018-04-09)

  Formative assessment is an approach for evaluating student progress and achievement that has become a widely used practice in elementary classrooms. It invites student input in every aspect of the learning process, and is ...
• A program evaluation of applications of Mathematics 10 in British Columbia public schools 

  McAskill, Donald Bruce (2018-02-22)

  This is an outcomes based program evaluation which used a nonequivalent control-group design to determine the effectiveness of the implementation of Applications of Mathematics 10 in British Columbia public schools. The ...
• Precalculus students' problems in understanding variables, an intervention and its effect 

  Wyeth, Margaret H. (2018-01-22)

  The results of a qualitative analysis of 170 precalculus students' interpretations of mathematical variables, constituted the foundation for a teaching intervention in a precalculus course at the University of Victoria. ...
• Mindfulness in Early Childhood Education: Supporting Cognitive and Social-Emotional Well-being in Primary Classrooms 

  Parker, Laura (2018-01-20)

  Abstract The practice of mindfulness has grown in popularity in contemporary classrooms; however, much remains unknown about the potential impact of mindfulness practices with young learners. This project reviews the ...
• Exploring the affordances of the iPad for literature discussions 

  Dorion, Charlotte (2018-01-15)

  This six-week qualitative exploratory case study examined the affordances of the iPad for students and teachers when used to video record discussions about literature. The 13 Grade 6 and Grade 7 participants self-selected ...
• Strategies for reading expository prose 

  Caron, Thomas Arthur (2018-01-15)

  In the context of reading strategy research, the present study explores changes with passage difficulty in the frequencies of occurrence of responses and strategies identified in expert readers' think-aloud protocols. ...
• A rebel band of friends : understanding through women's narratives of friendship, identity and moral agency 

  Donawa, Wendy (2018-01-11)

  This narrative inquiry is grounded in friendship. It draws its data from the narratives of four longstanding women friends in the Caribbean, where I have spent my adult life. I draw on these narratives, and on my own ...
• Safety education: culture, leadership and learning in the workplace: a critical discourse analysis 

  McGrath, Michael (2018-01-10)

  A challenge of our time is that workplace fatality and injury rates have remained consistent for the past 25 years (AWCBC, 2017, Table 22). According to Association of Workers Compensation Boards of Canada statistics, since ...
• Beyond the sixties scoop: reclaiming indigenous identity, reconnection to place, and reframing understandings of being indigenous 

  Wright Cardinal, Sarah (2018-01-08)

  This study used life experience methods to gather the narratives of seven adult Indigenous transracial adoptees who have reclaimed their Indigenous identities after experiencing closed adoption during the late 1950s through ...
• Seeing queerly: exploring recently-graduated teachers’ knowledge, beliefs, and experiences of supporting LGBTQ+ students 

  Deane, Colin (2018-01-08)

  This thesis explores the question “What do teachers who have recently graduated from teacher education programs know, believe, and experience about supporting LGBTQ+ students?” This research was conducted using narrative ...

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