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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
DownloadFall 2021
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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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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An Autonomy Support Motivation Intervention with Pre-Service Teachers: Do the Strategies that They Intend to Use Change?
DownloadFall 2012
Self-Determination Theory posits that autonomy is one of three psychological needs whose fulfillment leads to an optimally motivating learning environment. A quasi-experimental design was used to see if the motivational strategies that preservice teachers intended to use in their classrooms...
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Enlightening Encounters: The Role of a Human Library in Shaping Pre-Service Teachers' Future Trauma-Informed Approaches
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Due to the striking impact of childhood trauma on development and well-being (Mandelli et al., 2015; Paquola et al., 2016; Statistics Canada, 2015), there has been a movement towards systemic implementation of trauma-informed approaches (TIAs). TIAs are meant to help working professionals...
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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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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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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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How Social and Emotional Learning Beliefs Predict Efficacy and Engagement Beliefs in Practicing and Preservice Teachers
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The Prosocial Classroom Model posits teachers’ social emotional competence (SEC) at the forefront of the path that impacts healthy teacher/student relationships, effective classroom management, and effective social-emotional learning (SEL) implementation. Two studies, each using a predictive...
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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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Fall 2024
Despite progress in understanding body image's complexity and gender diversity, existing research often overlooks or inadequately addresses the experiences of nonbinary individuals. Traditional body image measurement and research studies typically fail to accommodate nonbinary identities at all,...