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Download full textAllison Leanage; Rubab Arim – Statistics Canada, 2024
Using British Columbia Ministry of Education administrative school data within the Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform, this study compared the proportions of high school graduates among Grade 12 students with and without special needs across nine cohorts from 2010/2011 to 2018/2019 before and after controlling for several…
Descriptors: Special Needs Students, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, High School Students
Direct linkWager, Amanda C.; Ansloos, Jeffrey P.; Thorburn, Rachel – Power and Education, 2022
In this qualitative study we demonstrate the critical ways that Indigenous youth experience structural violence and systemic inequities in the context of education. In particular, this youth-engaged study explores three key themes regarding (1) the social ecologies of education, (2) curriculum, and (3) pedagogy. Considerations of how these issues…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Canada Natives, Indigenous Populations, Racism
Fichten, Catherine S.; Heiman, Tali; Jorgensen, Mary; Nguyen, Mai Nhu; Havel, Alice; King, Laura; Budd, Jillian; Amsel, Rhonda – International Journal of Higher Education, 2016
We tested the ability of Ajzen's Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) model to predict intention to graduate among Canadian and Israeli students with and without a learning disability/attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (LD/ADHD). Results based on 1486 postsecondary students show that the model's predictors (i.e., attitude, subjective norms,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Behavior Theories, Learning Disabilities, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Goodman, Madeline; Finnegan, Robert; Mohadjer, Leyla; Krenzke, Tom; Hogan, Jacquie – National Center for Education Statistics, 2013
The Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) is a cyclical, large scale study of adult skills and life experience focusing on education and employment that was developed and organized by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). In the United States, the study was conducted in 2011-12 with a…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Numeracy, Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies
McKenna, Gregory S. – Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, 2010
The primary purpose of this report is to explore within the Canadian context the relationship between Self-Reported Learning Disabilities (SRLD) and low literacy performance using the Canadian portion of the public data set from the 2003 International Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey (IALSS). Two primary research questions related to SRLD…
Descriptors: Intervention, Remedial Reading, Learning Disabilities, Foreign Countries
Nowicki, Elizabeth A. – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2007
Beliefs about learning and physical difficulties were explored in 50 younger children (M = 5.6, SD = 1.0 years) and 50 older children (M = 9.5, SD = 1.1 years). Participants were asked why they thought some children had learning or physical difficulties and whether children with these difficulties would always have them. The majority of older…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Misconceptions, Physical Disabilities, Mental Retardation
Stringer, Ronald W.; Heath, Nancy – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2006
One hundred and fifty-five students (average age of 127 months) were tested using the WRAT-3 reading and arithmetic subtests, the Self-Perception Profile for Children with Learning Disabilities (SPPLD) and the Children's Depression Inventory (CDI). One year later they were again tested with the same instruments. The authors hypothesised that…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Self Concept Measures, Arithmetic, Depression (Psychology)
Predictors of Successful Transition from Self-Contained Special Education to Regular Class Settings.
Peer reviewedSchneider, Barry H.; Byrne, Barbara M. – Psychology in the Schools, 1984
Rated the adjustment of 129 newly mainstreamed learning disabled, emotionally disturbed, and mildly developmentally disabled pupils. While the teachers were, in general, very satisfied with the pupils' progress in both academic and behavioral areas, satisfaction declined after grade six. IQ data did not predict satisfactory adjustment. (JAC)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Disturbances, Foreign Countries
