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Fall 2012
There is limited information on families’ decisions regarding their (dis)continuation of weight management care. This thesis includes two complementary studies that examined this issue. First, an integrative review was performed to characterize predictors of and reasons for attrition in pediatric...
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Fall 2018
There has been a decline in children’s free-play participation, despite the importance of this experience for their health and development (Gleave, 2009). Parents can facilitate a range of free-play experiences (Sleddens et al., 2012) through their pivotal role in children’s lives (Hertzman &...
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Taking it into Their Own Hands: Innovative Wildfire Mitigation Measures at the Municipal Level
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Wildfires are an environmental hazard event experienced by populations and communities across the world. These events can have significant and long-lasting effects on the communities that are impacted, which makes the importance of mitigation apparent. Partners in Protection, a non-governmental...
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A Multiple Case Study of Caregivers’ Experiences of a Psychoeducational Support Group for Caregivers of Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD): An Embedded Mixed Methods Study
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Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) can experience a number of neurocognitive deficits and associated adverse outcomes. Stable home life helps protect children with FASD against adverse outcomes; however, their primary caregivers typically have significantly higher levels of...
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Fall 2013
Investigating the connections between changes in language learning beliefs and their connections with student interactions while abroad, the researcher conducted semi-structured interviews with five alumni and one professor who attended a college situated in Switzerland. The researcher analyzed...
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Fall 1975
This study is the evolution of a single case. IN the introductory chapters, an arguement is made for the adoption of a basic philosophical attitude, and no philosophical dogma. This arguement pertains to the study in three ways: (1) As the suggested best way to approach another human being in an...
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Beyond the Workshop: An Interpretive Case Study of the Professional Learning of Three Elementary Music Teachers
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The purpose of this collective case study was to develop a more nuanced understanding of the experiences and professional learning of three elementary music teachers who taught for the same large school board in Alberta, Canada. The interpretive inquiry sought to respond to the following two...
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Bypassing, Skipping, and Pivoting: A Behavioral Microanalysis during an Information-Based Task in Spatially-Diverse Virtual Environments
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Educators are looking at technology voluntarily used by students outside the classroom as a way to better engage students inside the classroom. This study examined post-secondary studentsâ behavior during an information-based task in spatially-diverse virtual environments. Cluster analysis...
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Grade 2 Children Experience a Classroom-based Animal-assisted Literacy Mentoring Program: An Interpretive Case Study
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Despite the growing popularity of animal-assisted literacy programs in North America and abroad, little research has examined how children experience these programs or what their significance may be for participating children in the elementary classroom context. Designed as an interpretive case...
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Fall 2016
Debris flow entrainment refers to the increase in mass by way of erosion of the channel beds or undermining the channel banks. Entrainment makes the calculation of travel distance and velocities of debris flow much more complex and difficult. Shear failure of the material in the channel bed is...