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Why They Stay: Variables Associated With Commitment Among Student Affairs Professionals
(2020-09-09)Attrition of new student affairs professionals can be financially burdensome to an institution and simultaneously handicaps the continuity of service and engagement of student affairs. Factors related to the departure of ... -
A Qualitative Examination of Middle School Principals' and Assistant Principals' Cultural Intelligence and Experiences with Diversity in an Urban School District in New York City
(2020-09-01)In an increasingly global and connected world, the classroom becomes a reflection of this marvel at a microcosmic level. Globalization, a reality in the 21st-century workplace, has spread its wings in the school environment. ... -
The World of Resilience in Moving Beyond Chronic Homelessness
(2020-08-15)Homelessness is a significant issue facing Canada today and causes adversity for those who experience it. How does resilience contribute to an individual’s capacity to overcome the experience of chronic homelessness? The ... -
Implications of Emergent Research in the Field of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) for Counselling Practice
(2020-08-01)The purpose of this study is to explore the connections between emergent biomedical research in the field of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) and mental health, and how clinical counselling is influenced by it. Two ... -
An Auto-Ethnography of the Implementation of Social-Emotional Focused Programming in a Kindergarten/Grade 1 Classroom
(2020-08)More than 60% of students have experienced one or more traumatic events in their life by the time they reach 17 years of age (Blodgett & Lanigan, 2018; Langley, Gonzalez, Sugar, Solis & Jaycox, 2015; Holmes, Levy, Smith, ... -
The Body: Accessing and Integrating Implicit Processes for Treating Trauma
(2020-07-31)Individuals exposed to trauma, especially complex trauma, experience relentless suffering unless effectively treated. Unfortunately, current “go-to” trauma treatment modalities, like traumainformed cognitive behaviour ... -
Barriers to Help-Seeking in Men for Mental Health Issues: The Impact of Gender Role Socialization and Masculinity Ideologies
(2020-07-20)According to the World Health Organization (2017), depression is a significant contributor to suicides globally and that men lead in the number of suicides. However, there is a discrepancy between the extent of men diagnosed ... -
Old brains in a new world: A manuscript thesis
(2020-07-13)The human brain and nervous system have both adapted in direct response to the specific environmental pressures that existed tens of thousands of years ago. More recently (approximately the past 200 hundred years) societal ... -
Social Emotional Learning and Classroom Meetings
(2020-07-07)This researcher studied the effect weekly classroom meetings had on classroom climate. The participants included nineteen second-grade students in a Seattle public school over a one-month period. Students led and ... -
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 ... -
Homework differentiation and kindergarten reading fluency
(2020-07)The purpose of this study was to analyze the impact that differentiated homework has on Kindergarten reading fluency. This study divided 20 kindergarteners into reading level groups: low, middle, and high based on sight ... -
“She just got harder and harder to look after”: A Discourse Analytic Case Study of Elder Abuse
(2020-07)As our population ages, it is anticipated we will see more and more cases of elder abuse (Young, 2014). With that said, elder abuse is often obscured from view because it typically takes place behind closed doors in family ... -
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 ... -
Articulation of community engagement: A collaborative recovery model (CEACRM)
(2020-06-10)This thesis is divided into five chapters. The first chapter consists of a two-part introduction. The first part of the introduction provides a critique of the prevailing diagnostic and medicalized worldview within our ... -
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. ...
