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A Narrative Inquiry into the Experiences of Syrian Refugee Families with Children Living with Disabilities
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Children with disabilities are among the most at-risk groups for marginalization due to compounded disadvantages from the intersection of risk factors such as refugee status and disability status. Despite this high risk, there is no systematic data collected on this group and scant literature on...
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12/18/2014
While privacy issues in children's mobile applications are becoming increasingly sophisticated, the permissions in these applications are undergoing development without proper security implementation. Mobile applications with excessive privacy features can cause serious data leakages and other...
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Fall 2022
As people age, they adjust how they associate objects. We examine the interplay between age and various aspects of object similarity. For this, we perform two experiments: one between adults aged 25–35 and 50–60 and another between six-year-olds and adults. Between 25–35- and 50–60-year-olds, we...
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Spring 2022
Ambient air pollution remains a significant public health concern in Alberta. Exposure to air pollution is associated with numerous adverse respiratory effects in children, especially wheezing, asthma, and bronchitis. Events such as wildfires can trigger an acute respiratory response due to the...
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An Artful Narrative Inquiry into the Curriculum-Making Experiences of South Asian Girls, Mothers, and Teachers in Canada
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The demographic profile of South Asians residing in Canada has grown appreciably over the years. For instance, as of 2011, South Asians made up Canada’s largest visible minority group (Statistics Canada, 2011) and was predicted to continue growing (Statistics Canada, 2012). More recently,...
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Co-Composing Knowledge Communities and Curricula: A Narrative Inquiry into Student Teachers’ and a Teacher Educator’s Experiences
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What is knowledge? Whose knowledge matters? How can we build connections with people, share knowledge, and promote one another’s growth? These and many other wonders were embedded in my tension-filled stories about knowledge, curricula, and communities, both as a university teacher of English in...
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2016-05-25
Cowden, Brenna, Lee, Alyssa, Pollock, Karen
Purpose: Adoptions of non-special needs children from China have decreased dramatically over the past decade, while adoptions from the Waiting Child program have increased. Waiting children have identified medical needs or are over the age of 10 years. The purpose of this study was to determine...
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Comprehension monitoring behaviour during reading of connected text in elementary school-children: Comparing eye-tracking and think-aloud methods
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Chomey, Stacey, Collett, Janelle, Molzan, Bradie, Skoczylas, Melissa, Kim, Esther, Charest, Monique
Comprehension monitoring while reading is the ability to recognize that a coherence problem has occurred and that a repair strategy is needed to resolve a discrepancy in understanding. This pilot study examined two methods for detecting incoherence: eye-tracking and think-aloud protocols. The...
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2016-06-30
Dimitrijevic Savic, Jovana, Howell, Heather, Schneider, Phyllis
This paper quantitatively examines grammatical complexity and lexical diversity in the oral and written narrative productions from a subsample of children, aged six and eight, includ-ed in Test of Early Language and Literacy (TELL: Phillips, Hayward & Norris, 2016) narrative norming sample. For...
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Contribution of the Big 5 personality traits to the mental health of Canadian adults and youth during the COVID-19 pandemic
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The Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) epidemic was first detected in China in December 2019 and spread to other countries quickly. Many studies have shown that the COVID-19 pandemic adversely affected mental health. Individual differences such as personality could influence people’s responses to the...