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Morrill, Janet – Accounting Education, 2019
Internationally educated professionals (IEPs) encounter significant barriers to entry to their professions upon immigrating. Obtaining education in the new country is an effective means of improving their positions. While universities emphasize the need to attract and serve adult learners and a more diverse clientele, the specific needs of…
Descriptors: Accounting, Foreign Students, College Students, Transitional Programs
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Sangster, Sarah L.; Loy, Kara L.; Mills, Sheryl D.; Lawson, Karen L. – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2016
In 2014, the Undergraduate Research Initiative at the University of Saskatchewan implemented a pilot project to organize, support, and promote curriculum-based research experience as an integral aspect of participating first-year courses. The framework for the course-based initiative was the research arc; usually in groups, students in these…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Research, Pilot Projects, College Faculty
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Chandler, Kathryn M. M.; Williamson, Deanna L. – Journal of Experiential Education, 2013
This study explicated the theory underpinning the Human Ecology Practicum Program offered in the Department of Human Ecology at the University of Alberta. The program has operated for 40 years but never been formally evaluated. Using a document analysis, focus group and individual interviews, and a stakeholder working group, we explored…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ecology, Practicums, Program Evaluation
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Riveros, Augusto; Newton, Paul; da Costa, José – International Journal of Teacher Leadership, 2013
This paper reports on a study of teacher leadership conducted in Alberta, Canada. Twenty-one school teachers and administrators were interviewed about their experiences with a provincial teacher-leader program in which they participated from 1997 to 2007. The participants were asked questions related to their experience in the program and how…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Teacher Leadership, Leadership Training, Interviews
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Stoloff, Sacha; Boulanger, Maude; Roy, Virginie; Rivard, Marie-Claude – Journal of Education and Learning, 2015
The worldwide rise in obesity makes this the first non-infectious epidemic in human history. The rapid increase is, in fact, influenced more by environment than biology. In an effort to halt the trend, Quebec has launched a major awareness-raising campaign that focuses on healthy environments and targets stakeholders in schools, municipalities,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Obesity, Consciousness Raising, Health Promotion
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Kane, Ruth G.; Francis, Andrew – Teacher Development, 2013
Today the quality of teachers is held to be increasingly important yet there continue to be doubts about whether teacher education programs graduate teachers ready to meet the challenges of their initial years of teaching. In some jurisdictions, other agencies (Ministries of Education, school districts, and private providers) are supplementing the…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Beginning Teacher Induction, Teacher Education Programs, Foreign Countries
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Rawana, Jennine S.; Norwood, Sarah Jane; Whitley, Jessica – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2011
The goal of this study was to describe the strength-based bullying prevention program, "Strengths in Motion," and to evaluate the program utilizing a mixed-method design. Participants included students in Grades 4 to 8 from an intervention (n = 50) and a comparison (n = 53) school in Northern Ontario. Measures of bullying, strengths, and…
Descriptors: Bullying, Prevention, Foreign Countries, Classroom Environment
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Crooks, Claire V.; Burleigh, Dawn; Snowshoe, Angela; Lapp, Andrea; Hughes, Ray; Sisco, Ashley – Advances in School Mental Health Promotion, 2015
Schools are expected to promote social and emotional learning skills among youth; however, there is a lack of culturally-relevant programming available. The Fourth R: Uniting Our Nations programs for Aboriginal youth include strengths-based programs designed to promote healthy relationships and cultural connectedness, and improve school success…
Descriptors: Canada Natives, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Culturally Relevant Education
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Deschesnes, Marthe; Drouin, Nathalie; Tessier, Caroline; Couturier, Yves – Health Education, 2014
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to understand how a Canadian intervention based on a professional development (PD) model did or did not influence schools' capacities to absorb a Healthy School (HS) approach into their operations. This study is the second part of a research project: previously published results regarding this research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intervention, Professional Development, Capacity Building
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White, Jennifer; Morris, Jonathan; Hinbest, Jerry – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2012
The development and implementation of a new school-based suicide prevention education programme in one secondary school in Vancouver, British Columbia, recently provided us with an opportunity to conduct an in-depth, qualitative case study. The purpose of our study was to deepen our understanding of how school-based suicide prevention education…
Descriptors: Prevention, Foreign Countries, Suicide, Adolescents
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Smith, Janet – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2012
Since the first Circle of Trust retreat was offered in 2005, the Center for Courage & Renewal (CCR) and other individual facilitators across the United States, Canada, and Australia have continued to offer many cross-professional retreats, as they have proven extremely popular. They are designed for people from any profession who want to…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice, Program Effectiveness
Hare, Courtney; Eaton, Sarah – Online Submission, 2010
Background: iCCAN (Innovative Communities Connecting and Networking) is a not-for-profit provincial network of videoconferencing sites creating unprecedented learning opportunities and greater access to training and professional development for all Albertans, regardless of where they live. Led by a partnership of Community Learning Network,…
Descriptors: Literacy, Pilot Projects, Foreign Countries, Tutors
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Volkov, Boris B. – New Directions for Evaluation, 2011
This chapter features a recent conversation with Dr. Arnold J. Love, a long-time proponent of internal evaluation and one of the most cited internal evaluation authors. In 1983, Love edited the first issue of "New Directions for Program Evaluation" on the topic of internal evaluation. He is the author of the book "Internal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Evaluation, Interviews, Organizational Development
Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, 2010
A summative evaluation of the Foreign Credential Recognition Program (FCRP) funded by Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) was conducted during the spring, summer and fall of 2008. The main objective of the evaluation was to measure the relevance, impacts, and cost-effectiveness of the program. Given the timing of the evaluation…
Descriptors: Credentials, Recognition (Achievement), Immigrants, Summative Evaluation
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Chovil, Nicole – Child & Youth Services, 2009
Continuous quality improvement (CQI) is increasingly being adopted by health care, including child and youth mental health services. As part of the commitment to ongoing quality improvement, child and youth mental health teams in the Fraser region in British Columbia undertook CQI projects over a one year period (2007-2008). The projects covered a…
Descriptors: Health Services, Mental Health Programs, Total Quality Management, Mental Health
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