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Fall 2023

David, Claire V.

Individuals who have sustained a sports-related concussion can experience psychological and emotional distress that impacts their quality of life. Although concussion symptoms typically resolve within 30 days from injury, some individuals experience persisting symptoms that continue for months,...

Fall 2023

Hoveling, Léonie Antoinette Maria

Background: Autistic individuals are often stereotyped as gifted mathematicians and, as a result, autistic traits and behaviours are generally believed to lead to exceptional mathematical ability. Much of society’s collective understanding of autism is based on media representations, which often...

Fall 2023

Brassard, Leah

The concept of resilience has been widely studied for decades. Recent streams of resilience research have focused on relational and environmental factors important for understanding risk and resilience beyond individual traits (Masten, Lucke, Nelson & Stallworthy, 2021). This systems perspective...

Spring 2024

Martinez Cano, Dalia Carolina

Despite the considerable attention given to morphology instruction in recent years, there remains an essential need to understand how and when it should be taught, as well as whether it is better suited for students with specific characteristics. Thus, the objective of this dissertation was...

Spring 2024

Ma, Chaojun

Knowledge tracing involves assessing students' performance based on their learning interaction records and providing them with personalized learning paths. Deep learning methods model students' knowledge states by exploring extensive exercise records, with the Deep-IRT approach considered...

Spring 2024

Tan, Bin

Response time data has gained extensive attention in recent years, thanks to the increasing use of computer-based assessments. Previous studies examined the relationship between response time and test performance, yielding inconsistent findings such as positive, negative, and no relationship. To...

Spring 2024

Davis, Adriana A

The debate on whether transgender athletes should be ‘allowed’ to participate in elite sport, and in which gender category, has been increasing in recent years. Transgender individuals experience discrimination and rejection in physical activity and sport at a higher degree than their lesbian,...

Spring 2024

Singh, Deepak

Mental disorders are one of the leading health problems affecting Canadian children and youth. Teachers are considered frontline workers in child mental health due to the amount of time children spend at school. Given the high prevalence of mental disorders, and the amount of time teachers spend...

Spring 2024

Carlson, Elizabeth M

In this thesis, I co-created knowledge with eight Indigenous youths and ten caregivers of Indigenous youths through qualitative interviews about their experiences of and preferences in psychological assessment. I was guided by constructivist methodology in my use of the qualitative descriptive...

Spring 2024

Beaucage, Nathan

Indigenous Canadians are in a mental health crisis and do not receive adequate mental health service. This is evident as Indigenous clients access mental health services at twice the average rate while still showing a twice as high rate of suicide. Indigenous clients also only have a 50%...