• The impact of parental death during adolescence on separation-individuation process 

  Elder, Sandra (2018-07-09)

  Whether or not major changes in family structure during adolescence have positive or negative consequences for adolescents has not been empirically investigated to any extent. The separation-individuation process is ...
• The relationship of writing instruction to grade 4 to 6 students' reflective accounts and their written products 

  Bright, Robin M. (2018-07-06)

  The research documented in this dissertation examined the language-related instructional contexts for writing in two intermediate classrooms spanning grades four to six. In addition, students' understanding of those contexts ...
• The adaptation of Chinese engineering students to academic language tasks at the University of Calgary 

  Zhu, Liping (2018-07-05)

  Adaptation to Canadian graduate studies from a Chinese background is both culturally and linguistically challenging. This study reported how the traditional and contemporary methods of instruction used in teaching English ...
• A study of the relevance of Max Weber's work to educational administration theory 

  Samier, Eugénie Angèle (2018-07-05)

  Max Weber is generally regarded as a major authority in the fields of organizational, administrative and educational administration theory, whose contributions are most often understood to be a theory of bureaucracy, with ...
• Exercise adherence in obese women: evaluation of two intervention strategies 

  Naylor, Patti-Jean (2018-07-04)

  The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of behavioural self-control and relapse prevention strategies for increasing adherence in obese women during a 12 week supervised walking programme and in a six ...
• An oral history of a field trip: a study of participants' historical imagination in "Action" and "Artifact within action" 

  Green, Vicki Ann (2018-07-03)

  This study investigated former students' historical imaginations and recollections emanating from a visit to an historic site as an extension of the curriculum in social studies in grade five a decade ago. Historical ...
• Administration and values: the career advancement of women managers in the British Columbia public service 

  Bullen, Christine (2018-06-29)

  This study consists of an investigation of the relationship between the values of the organization, the work-related values of managers, and the career advancement of female managers within the British Columbia Public ...
• Cognitive processes related to spelling development in grades 5 and 7 

  Smith, Ardys (2018-06-28)

  This study explores the relationships between cognitive processes and spelling ability. The study consists of an instrumental component which involved testing 57 normal students in grades 5 and 7 on a survey of cognitive ...
• A culture-based instructional program for teaching Thai language to foreigners 

  Potter, Kritchada (2018-06-28)

  The purpose of this study is to examine and develop an instructional program for teaching the Thai language and culture to foreigners. This program combines the teaching of the Thai language and culture together in the ...
• The role of the situation model in the reading comprehension processes of grade seven readers 

  Pereira, Lytta J. (2018-06-27)

  Within the context of reading comprehension research, the present study is an investigation into the role of prior knowledge in the form of a situation model, constructed and used strategically during on-line text processing. ...
• Text and texture of children's inquiry: grade 1 children constructing knowledge of narrative text 

  Craig, Margaret Theresa (2018-06-26)

  This dissertation focuses on Grade 1 children's inquiry of narrative text over a three-month period. The children were read to as a group by the classroom teacher and individually by Grade 7 students, a grandparent helper, ...
• Organizational culture of three high performance secondary schools in British Columbia 

  Jones, Richard Merrick (2018-06-26)

  Recent evidence suggests that strong, positive organizational cultures characterize high performance schools. Themes related to the concept of organizational culture (e.g. climate, ethos, values, underlying assumptions, ...
• Educators' perspectives on assessment: tensions, contradictions and dilemmas 

  Field, James Colin (2018-06-20)

  The purpose of this interview study was to understand the perspectives of 17 educators towards assessment of reading-language arts in the public education system in British Columbia, Canada. The study used G. H. Mead's ...
• Function and form in first grade writing 

  Chapman, Marilyn Lesley (2018-06-20)

  This study examines the writing of six first grade children (three girls and three boys of varying abilities) in a "whole language" classroom where writing was modelled daily during "Morning News" and "writing skills" were ...
• Exercise and the young female: maturational differences in the responsiveness to aerobic training 

  Gaul, Catherine Ann (2018-06-19)

  The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of an aerobic training program on the aerobic fitness and blood lipid profiles of 24 premenarcheal (PREM) and 41 postmenarcheal (POSTM) volunteers. A second intent was ...
• Art therapists' approaches to the treatment of body image distortion and guilt in sexually-abused girls ages 4, 8, and 13 

  Marrion, Leslie Virginia (2018-06-18)

  (Finkelhor, 1986; Haugaard & Dickon Reppucci, 1988) have concluded that there is insufficient information on how to treat child sexual abuse (CSA). The reported incidence of CSA has substantially increased, hence, the ...
• The leadership implications of a ministry of education evaluation in three school districts: a naturalistic inquiry 

  Dickson, Graham Stewart (2018-06-15)

  Turbulence in the British Columbia education system encouraged Ministry and School District administrators to develop a holistic, formative evaluation process for school districts. Called the Information Profile System ...
• The effects of funding on the provision of educational services in Western Canada, 1976-1987 

  Glegg, Alastair Robertson Lindsay (2018-06-15)

  While considerable attention has been paid to the supposed qualitative outcomes of changes in level of financial support for public school education, comparatively little is known about the effects of funding changes on ...
• 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. ...

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