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Fall 2023

Herceg, Luciana

Viewing inspirational content such as Thinspiration and Fitspiration has been found to increase body dissatisfaction, appearance comparisons (Dignard & Jarry, 2020), and negative affect (Griffiths et al., 2019). 85.7% of young social media users use health and fitness-related social media...

Fall 2023

Pan, Zexuan

Computational thinking (CT) has become an essential literacy for the digital age, as it enables individuals to approach complex problems systematically and adapt to a rapidly changing technological landscape. Despite the educational benefits of CT being largely supported in the literature, the...

Fall 2023

Wells, Kendra L

Teaching became harder during the pandemic. More specifically, elementary teachers were expected to monitor student health on top of teaching curriculum, they were required to find creative ways to maintain relationships with students, and they needed to coach parents on implementing daily...

Spring 2023

Firoozi, Tahereh

The automated scoring of student essays is now recognized as a significant development in both the research and practice of educational testing. The majority of the published studies on automated essay scoring (AES) focus on outcomes in English. Studies on multilingual AES—meaning languages other...

Spring 2023

González Esparza, Lydia

Affect detection is increasingly viewed as an essential component of computer-based learning systems because it aims to improve learner outcomes by adapting to the learner’s affect. However, most computer-based learning environments used across formal and informal educational contexts do not...

Spring 2023

Burgos Cando, Mikaela

Survivors of attempted genocide are persecuted for their ethnic, racial, national, and/or religious identities (United Nations, n.d.a). Throughout the migration journey, genocide survivors are exposed to various forms of violence and trauma (Rieder & Elbert, 2013). Despite the potential negative...

Fall 2023

Flanagan, Agnes MH

Expectations are beliefs that someone should or will achieve something. Expectations influence performance—positive expectations improve outcomes, whereas negative expectations worsen them. We know very little about how teacher expectations changed during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study used a...

Fall 2023

Friesen, Laura Suzanne

Canada’s rural population is an important part of the country’s national identity. And yet, this is a dwindling population which has become a rather marginalized group with unique challenges and needs. In terms of mental health, rural individuals face complex and multifaceted barriers to...

Fall 2023

Shojaee, Mahnaz

Background. Digital game-based assessment (DGBA) is a new and unprecedented generation of assessment that has rapidly developed in educational systems. Previous studies revealed that this modern assessment method could affect students' skills, motivation, and learning. Additionally,...

Fall 2023

Elliott, Cassandra L.

Epidemiological monitoring over the past decade has identified a pattern of increasing rates of suicide, financial difficulty, and transition distress in Canadian Armed Forces veterans. Veterans who involuntarily release due to medical reasons experience more challenges than other groups of...