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Irene Torres-Arends; Michele Jacobsen – Journal of International Students, 2024
This study explores the learning needs of international students at a Canadian private university. Through a qualitative content analysis of 580 students' emails, we identified and examined 819 requests and complaints The analysis highlighted trends about due dates, assignment resubmissions, regrading, and plagiarism issues, leading to the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Student Needs, Private Colleges
Soiferman, Lisa Karen – Online Submission, 2012
The purpose of this study was to investigate the challenges faced by first-year students as they negotiated the transition from the writing environment of high school to the writing environment of university. The research for the dissertation was undertaken using a mixed-method explanatory design. This yielded a description of students'…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Barriers, Writing (Composition), Mixed Methods Research
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Cherubini, Lorenzo – McGill Journal of Education, 2009
Preservice teacher-candidates enrolled in teacher education programs across Canada are exposed to the nuances of school organization during their practice-teaching assignments. Although the literature is full of scholarship about the concerns of new teachers, less attention has been given to school organizational factors as sources of dissonance…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Assignments
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Carter, Lorraine; Rukholm, Ellen; Mossey, Sharolynn; Viverais-Dresler, Gloria; Bakker, Debra; Sheehan, Carolynn – Canadian Journal of University Continuing Education, 2006
This article explores the effectiveness of writing to help nurse-learners develop critical thinking in an asynchronous, online learning environment. The formal written assignments of students in an online nursing health assessment program were analyzed for evidence of critical thinking according to Johns' Model of Structured Reflection (Johns,…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Assignments, Online Courses, Critical Thinking