This decommissioned ERA site remains active temporarily to support our final migration steps to https://ualberta.scholaris.ca, ERA's new home. All new collections and items, including Spring 2025 theses, are at that site. For assistance, please contact erahelp@ualberta.ca.
Search
Skip to Search Results-
Computer Mediated Communication and Social Anxiety: Are the Benefits of Disclosing Online Contingent on Disclosing Face-to-face
DownloadFall 2021
Young people with social anxiety are vulnerable to deficits in social connectedness and appraisals of their subjective wellbeing. Computer mediated communication (CMC) tools (e.g., text messaging, social networking sites) encourage interacting with friends, are ubiquitous in the lives of young...
-
Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Short Revised Experiences of Teaching and Learning Questionnaire (SR-ETL-Q): Examining the Internal Structure within a Canadian Undergraduate Population
DownloadFall 2012
To ensure academic quality within the Canadian undergraduate education context, there is a need for student evaluation questionnaires that help to enhance students’ teaching-learning environments. The Experiences of Teaching and Learning Questionnaire (ETL-Q) and the Short Revised Experiences...
-
Fall 2009
The stigma associated with a mental illness can be an impediment to recovery and has been described as more long lasting and disabling than the illness itself (Schulze & Angermeyer, 2003). Thus reducing stigma is an important cornerstone in any mental health strategy. This study examined the...
-
The Effects of Cognitive Ability, Motivation and Perception of Interview on the Accuracy and Validity of Think Aloud Interview Data
DownloadSpring 2019
The objective of the present study was to examine the impact of examinee variables such as cognitive ability, motivation, and perception of the interview on the accuracy and validity evidence of the think aloud interview, a method widely used to collect information on participants’ response...
-
Fall 2012
As cognitive diagnostic models (CDMs) become increasingly popular in modern educational measurement, it is important to develop a person fit index that examines the appropriateness of a CDM for each individual examinee. The purpose of this study is to propose a new person fit index, the...