Browsing Scholarly Work (Open Access) by Date
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Kindergarten readers theater
(2020-07)This research focused on how the use of Readers Theater would impact students' reading fluency and sight word knowledge. The problem addressed in this action research study was that students were failing to meet their ... -
Disenfranchised grief in response to supporting loved ones through significant substance use challenges
(2020-06-30)This research explores lived experiences of individuals supporting loved ones through significant substance use challenges. The data was gathered by one-on-one semi-structured qualitative life history interviews with six ... -
The effect of goal setting, goal tracking, and feedback on reading fluency
(2020-06-05)As more accountability is placed on teachers and schools, they must find ways to boost their students’ academic reading fluency success. Because of the need to increase academic achievement, strategies that have little ... -
The impact of VAS and AAC charts on student focus
(2020-06-04)This action research study investigates the use of visual activity schedules (VAS) and augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) charts in a first-grade classroom in Washington State to increase the amount of time ... -
A points system and its impact on student behaviors
(2020-06-04)Negative classroom behaviors can affect not only the learning of the child exhibiting the behaviors, but they can disrupt the learning of other children in the classroom. Creating a points system to manage negative behaviors ... -
Connecting math talk communities, student reasoning and math assessments
(2020-06)This action research project explores the possible connections between the development of a math talks community in a classroom and student performance on standards-based assessments. The project includes nine student ... -
Classroom management: Middle school interventions
(2020-06)Classroom management interventions were implemented in a middle school resource room over a 6-week period. Of 32 students, 12 opted out of participating, which left 20 participants total. The goal was to implement classroom ... -
Classroom management
(2020-06)Classroom management is a primary challenge to academic instruction in elementary classrooms. Establishing and maintaining student engagement may be a controllable way to create a functioning classroom management system. ... -
First-generation Filipino American perceptions of pursuing the American dream through higher education
(2020-06)The American Dream, coined by writer and historian James Truslow Adams (as cited in Nakate, 2018), is the idea of opportunities for fulfilling dreams through hard work. Most people in the United States believe higher ... -
Men’s help-seeking behaviour
(2020-06)This thesis used a self-reporting online survey to gather firsthand knowledge of men’s help-seeking behaviour. Research into men’s unwillingness to accept help generally, and more specifically for psychotherapy, is reviewed. ... -
Why your pain must not exist: Bias & Phenomenology at the ends of medicine
(2020-05-28)Interrupting bias in counselling psychotherapy is critical to ethical practice. This paper demonstrates how the scientific method, for all its utility in health and medicine, also functions as a worldview and a personal ... -
The use of language in developing emotional safety
(2020-05-22)This thesis explores how the language used by counsellors influences client experiences of emotional safety within the therapeutic relationship. This influence was explored through an online survey exploring counsellor and ... -
The integration of equine-facilitated and somatic therapies for the treatment of complex trauma
(2020-05-19)Current research on early trauma is uncovering the staggering toll it takes on physical, psychological, social, and emotional health. Neurobiology and trauma research also suggests that accessing the portion of the brain ... -
Maternal grief following miscarriage: Introducing a group therapy approach to support bereavement
(2020-05-07)Perinatal loss is a common experience in contemporary society. While one in four pregnancies may result in a miscarriage, support for bereaved parents is still lacking. This thesis presents a group therapy approach to ... -
A case for the use of community-based psychedelic assisted psychotherapy in a rural and remote context
(2020-05)The therapeutic use of psychedelic substances has been a foundational component of healing practices in many Indigenous cultures throughout the history of humankind, but it has only been topic of study in Western therapeutic ... -
Readers theater to improve students’ reading comprehension: An issue-focused design-based study to better support students reading below grade level
(2020-05)This study examines the efficacy of implementing Readers Theater on comprehension and reading motivation for lower-ability readers in upper grade classrooms. Analysis of the needs of upper-grade students soon to transition ... -
Makerspace implementation in the general education classroom
(2020-05)An issue focused study discussing the relevance of art education in public schools including the status of art education funding and legislation in the United States. The author introduced the integration of art education ... -
Mobile technologies and relationships: Rebuilding meaningful connections
(2020-05)[No abstract provided by author, first paragraph from Chapter 1 follows] Mobile-information communication technologies (MICT) (smart phones, tablets, internet, social media, texting) have become the preferred method of ... -
Reframing vicarious trauma in clinical supervision through the lens of aboriginal/indigenous focusing-oriented therapy
(2020-05)Clinical supervision is consistently mentioned in the documented literature on vicarious trauma as an essential part of addressing stress in trauma therapists. However, there has been little documented on how clinical ... -
Increasing awareness of sensory needs to inform teaching practices
(2020-05)This professional development study examines the teaching practices of the researcher and how sensory-based strategies can be integrated with classroom instruction to support all learners. Instructional practices of the ...
