• Consulting 3- to 6-year-old children about their reading and writing concepts and practices 

  Shook, Sandra Ellen (2018-07-18)

  As members of a literate society young children construct their own literacy (Sulzby & Teale, 1991) and participate in literacy events from birth (Baghban, 1984; Taylor, 1983; Wells, 1986). They do so through social ...
• Women and primary physical education: a feminist critical ethnography 

  LeDrew, June Elizabeth (2018-07-17)

  The purpose of this inquiry was to provide an opportunity for the voices of the women teaching primary physical education to be heard by calling attention to how the lived experiences of these women primary teachers, within ...
• Neural and muscular factors influence maximal power generation 

  Sleivert, Gordon Grant (2018-07-12)

  The purpose of this thesis was to investigate the role of selected neuromuscular factors thought to affect the generation of maximal power outputs in a complex multi-joint movement, using multiple muscles, contracting ...
• Giving voice to women's experience of depression 

  Reilly, Mary Louise (2018-07-10)

  The purpose of this research was to gain understanding of women's experience of depression using a phenomenological-hermeneutic approach. Data was obtained from psychotherapy sessions with seven women who were diagnosed ...
• Interchangeable Positions in Interaction Sequences in Science Classrooms 

  Rees, Carol; Roth, Wolff-Michael (Dialogic Pedagogy, 2017)

  Triadic dialogue, the Initiation, Response, Evaluation sequence typical of teacher /student interactions in classrooms, has long been identified as a barrier to students’ access to learning, including science learning. A ...
• 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 ...
• An examination of the experience of living with mood disorders 

  McCallum, Barbara Ruth (2018-07-09)

  There is little research which examines the real life experience of those who have Mood Disorders, and yet studies suggest that in North America as many as one in four people in the general population will develop a major ...
• 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 ...
• Dual-task interference effects in early adolescents who differ in reading and spelling abilities 

  Mather, David Stead (2018-07-06)

  Few studies have investigated the differences between poor readers/poor spellers (SRD) and good readers who demonstrate unexpectedly poor spelling skills (SSD). Those that have done so have been mainly concerned with ...
• 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 ...
• The effect of imagery on self-efficacy for a motor skill 

  McKenzie, Alexander Duncan (2018-07-04)

  Two studies were conducted to investigate the effect of mental imagery training on the magnitude and strength of individuals' self-efficacy for a dart throwing task, and to compare the utility of single-subject and group ...
• 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 ...
• Clients' strategic self-presentation in counselling through discourse 

  Stypka, Kazimiera (2018-06-28)

  This dissertation is a descriptive study of clients' strategic self-presentations in counselling. Using naturally occurring counselling interviews as a source of data and an adaptation of ethnomethodology and conversational ...
• 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. ...
• Simulation debriefing: applying Kolb's model of experiential learning to improve classroom practices 

  Wighton, David James (2018-06-27)

  debriefing activity to be vital, no empirical studies have supported that contention, in an attempt to resolve this contradiction, this study examined the effect of a computer simulation and debriefing unit on student ...

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