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Fall 2024

Krebs, Brandon K

Long COVID is a chronic health condition that persists following recovery from COVID-19 infection and is linked to a staggering range of mental health difficulties. Self-compassion has been found to protect against psychological distress in those with other chronic health conditions. However,...

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

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...

Fall 2024

Haldane, Chayse Marie

Psychologists who work with justice-involved youth face numerous workplace stressors, which can negatively impact the psychologists’ well-being and the care they provide to their clients. Identified as a potential protective factor against adverse reactions to helping work, compassion...

Fall 2024

Nathoo, Jasmine A.

For young refugee women, attaining a post-secondary education appears to be a personally important goal and has positive implications for their integration, with economic and social benefits. However, young refugee women face significant barriers that can make post-secondary attainment...

Fall 2024

Santilli, Hannah

Background. Higher education transcends academic pursuit; it fosters social community, exploration, exposure to diverse experiences, and career fulfillment. However, Autistic postsecondary students often face barriers that hinder their sense of belonging. Studies indicate 40- 70% of these...

Fall 2024

Gunduz, Aysegul

Recent advancements in artificial intelligence and language modeling have revolutionized the domain of educational technology, with a special focus on the utility of automated essay scoring (AES) systems. The potential of GPT-based model architectures, including different versions or iterations...

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%...

Fall 2024

Holmstrom, Kathleen M

Structurally marginalized justice-involved youth on probation (JIYP) subject to community service hours are a particularly underserved population. This is due to numerous barriers to experiencing success, including risk factors related to reoffending, structural barriers such as finances and...

Fall 2024

Gorgun, Guher

The purpose of this dissertation is to employ three prominent atural language processing methods to assess the feasibility of automatically evaluating cloze questions generated by automatic item generation (AIG) methods. AIG methods have been developed to address the need for a large number of...