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Fall 2023
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...
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Fall 2023
Often, one may think of assessments, assignments, and tests as purely extrinsic motivators and that students have no intrinsic interest or drive to engage with them. However, there may be instances where students are intrinsically motivated by assessment. It is important to illuminate the various...
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Examining Emerging Adults’ Motivations for Sexting, Subjective Well-being, and Relationship Quality: A Self-Determination Perspective
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Researchers have documented many reasons why young people participate in sexting and a range of positive and negative outcomes associated with the activity. However, almost no research links outcomes with specific reasons, and the few instances where they are linked (e.g., Drouin et al., 2015;...
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A New Avenue for Teacher Education: Virtual Reality Intervention as a Path Towards Reducing Public Speaking Anxiety and Supporting Growth Mindsets
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The National Institute of Mental Health reports that public speaking anxiety affects approximately 73% of the population (2016). Individuals with a fear of public speaking worry about being judged in social situations by other people (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). This is a problem if...
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Spring 2019
Motivation is essential to achieve success in therapy, and as such, a lack of motivation is a significant problem for clients as they work to meet their goals. In this dissertation, I describe two studies that sought to understand better the factors that affect client motivation in order to...
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The Process of Reporting Suspicions of Child Maltreatment for Teachers: A Grounded Theory Study
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Child maltreatment is widely considered a major public health and societal concern affecting numerous children worldwide (Burczycka & Conroy, 2018; Cyr, Michel, & Dumais, 2013; UNICEF, 2006). Due to their proximity to children, teachers have a legal responsibility to report their suspicions of...
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Fall 2018
Students training for people-oriented careers, such as medicine and teaching, experience disproportionately high levels of burnout before entering the workforce. This is problematic because burnout is associated with negative outcomes such as unprofessionalism, low self-efficacy, and early career...
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Examining Practicing Teachers’ Cognitions and Emotions Towards Students with FASD Using Attribution Theory
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The importance of teachers’ emotions has been well-established in educational research, particularly when confronted with challenging student behaviour. Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) impact many Canadian children, and these students are likely to experience difficulty in the classroom....
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Evaluating an Attributional Retraining Intervention to Increase Pre-service Teachers’ Self-Efficacy in Working with Students with FASD: A Mixed Methods Study
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Children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) can experience complex social, emotional, behavioural, and academic needs at school that necessitate the support of prepared and efficacious teachers. Teacher self-efficacy, defined as the extent to which a teacher believes he or she can bring...
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Teachers’ Perspectives on Motivational Practices in Classrooms: An Exploratory Sequential Mixed Methods Design
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Motivation theory suggests several different approaches to best motivating students, established through rigorous empirical research. However, a theory-practice divide persists: teachers report feeling underprepared to motivate their students and researchers fail to make their recommendations...