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Spring 2012

Parakkal, Miriam

Background: Striking a balance between work and family care is a challenge for families today. More than 200,000 families in Canada have the additional demands that come with caring for a child with disability including implementing therapist-recommended goals and home programs. Aim: Underpinned...

2013

Sharun, Sarah, Goebel, Nancy, Wilson, Rebekah, Knoch, Jessica, Edwards Thomson, Michelle

2011

Rockwell, G.

As more and more scholarship is digital, we need to develop a culture of conversation around the evaluation of digital academic work. We have to be able to evaluate new types of research, like analytic tools and hypermedia fiction, that are difficult to review. The essay surveys common types of...

Fall 2015

Aktary, Walie M.

In 2013, a research effort at the University of Alberta combined various health-related questionnaires to form the Student Life Activity Questionnaire (SLAQ) to evaluate student health behaviour, patterns, and associations. An area for inquiry became evident when the analysis of the physical...

2015

Blair, Kristen Pilner, Cutumisu, Maria, Schwartz, Daniel Lewis , Chin, Doris B.

We introduce one instance of a game-based assessment designed to measure students’ self-regulated learning choices. We describe our overarching measurement strategy and we present Posterlet, an assessment game in which students design posters and learn graphic design principles from feedback. We...

Spring 2010

Rossol, Nathaniel

Online multimedia education systems traditionally tend to consist almost exclusively of multiple choice or numeric response style questions. However, many curricula such as math, physics, and chemistry typically involve students completing large, complex, multi-step problems where the process...

Fall 2010

Raab, Dustin Jeremy

Thousands of hectares of wetlands are being destroyed by oil sands mining in Alberta, and the industry must undertake wetland reclamation to compensate for these losses. Wetland vegetation has developed at some previously mined sites, however reclamation is thus far exploratory, and limited in...

2009

Dryden, D. M., Krebs Seida, J., Ospina, M., Hooton, N., Hartling, L., Klassen, T. P., Liang, Y.

Objectives To evaluate the risk of bias tool, introduced by the Cochrane Collaboration for assessing the internal validity of randomised trials, for inter-rater agreement, concurrent validity compared with the Jadad scale and Schulz approach to allocation concealment, and the relation between...

Fall 2015

Frison, Jessica L.

The purpose of the present study was twofold: to examine the impact of assistive technology (AT) on the writing proficiency of junior high students and to explore the utility of a writing assessment for students with significant learning needs. Writing skills included productivity, sentence...

Spring 2017

Chu, Man-Wai

The use of computer simulated science laboratories (CSSL) to assess science knowledge and skills has become popular in recent years (Bennett, Persky, Weiss, & Jenkins, 2007; PhET, 2014). These digital environments are often superior to face-to-face environments in which traditional science...