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“It is far safer to be feared than loved”: Why do some individuals become bullies and others bully-victims?
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Although a wide range of theories have been applied to the study of bullying and victimization, the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB; Ajzen, 1993, 2002), has not as of yet been applied to the study of bullying behaviour. The present study employed Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) to assess a...
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A Qualitative Analysis of Counsellors’ Experiences Working with Individuals Diagnosed with FASD
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This study used qualitative inquiry guided by phenomenology in effort to make explicit the experiences of three registered psychologists and one registered clinical social worker, who counsel individuals with FASDs. An interview was conducted with each participant and then each interview was...
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An Autonomy Support Motivation Intervention with Pre-Service Teachers: Do the Strategies that They Intend to Use Change?
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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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Spring 2012
Burnout is a chronic syndrome characterized by emotional exhaustion, cynicism, and reduced efficacy that has long-term ill effects for individuals, organizations, families, and health-care systems. Job engagement is considered to be the positive opposite of the burnout experience, and it is...
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Collateral Effects of the Media on Sex Offender Reintegration: Perceptions of Sex Offenders, Professionals, and the Lay Public
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Sexual offending results in devastating consequences for victims and is of great concern to the public; prevention of re-offending is therefore an important endeavour. No formal reintegration system is in place for sex offenders and often the media sensationalizes stories about these offenders,...
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Comparing the correctness of classical test theory and item response theory in evaluating the consistency and accurancy of student proficiency classifications
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The purposes of this study were: 1) to compare the values of decision consistency (DC) and decision accuracy (DA) yielded by three commonly used estimation procedures: Livingston-Lewis (LL) and the compound multinomial procedure (CM) procedures, both of which are based on classical test theory...
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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
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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...
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Fall 2012
Score reporting serves a critical function as the interface between the test developer and a diverse audience of test users. The basic requirements for score reporting are clearly identified within the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing (1999). However, the methods to achieve...
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Development and Validation of a Home Literacy Questionnaire to Assess Emergent Reading Skills of Pre-School Children
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Poor psychometric characteristics of home literacy measures have been proposed as a probable reason for the weak relationships found between home literacy and emergent literacy. To investigate this idea further three studies were performed. The first study involved a methodological review of...
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Effects of Negatively Worded Items and the Provision of a Warning about the Inclusion of Negatively Worded Items in an Attitude Questionnaire
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It has been widely demonstrated that the inclusion of negatively worded items in attitude questionnaires can have adverse effects on the responses (Podsakoff, MacKenzie, Lee, & Podsakoff, 2003).The present study examined the effect of a varying number of negatively worded items and the provision...