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Examination of Subjective and Objective Cognitive Impairment Discrepancies in Sports-Related Concussion of Elite Athletes
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Assessments of sports-related concussion (SRC) include tests of athletes’ cognitive performance and self-reports of perceived cognitive impairment. Both anecdotal and empirical evidence have shown occurrences of discrepancies between athletes’ subjective and objective indicators of cognitive...
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Exploring Professional Psychology Graduate Students’ Training in Culturally Competent Assessment
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Culture is recognized as a necessary consideration for psychologists to attend to when conducting assessments, the importance of which professional ethical guidelines make clear as well. What is not yet clear from the existing research is if clinical psychology training programs in Canada reflect...
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Leveraging Natural Language Processing Methods to Evaluate Automatically Generated Cloze Questions: A Cautionary Tale
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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...
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Misdiagnosis and Missed Diagnosis of Twice-Exceptional Students: Examining Current Psychoeducational Assessment Practices
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Twice-exceptional (2e) is a term used to identify students who are identified with dual diagnoses of giftedness and some type of learning challenge which qualifies them for special education programs, such as attention deficits and learning disabilities. 2e students are often overlooked in...
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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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The Role of Visuomotor Behaviours in Understanding the Functionality of Upper Limb Prostheses
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Introduction: Upper limb prostheses aim to restore the complex capacities of the human hand. Coordinated hand and arm function relies on an intact visuomotor system during object interaction. However, unlike individuals with intact arm function, prosthesis users face additional challenges due to...
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Validity evidence to explore the educational impact for using a single-point rubric in Interprofessional Education
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Introduction: Many interprofessional (IP) assessments and instruments were developed and utilized in Interprofessional Education (IPE). However, few studies regarding IPE are about the impact of assessments and instruments to support student learning, teaching, and decision making (Jill...