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Dressler, Roswita; Guida, Rochelle; Chu, Man-Wai – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2023
If teachers have previously used technology (e.g., Learning Management Systems, document sharing, video-conferencing, gamification, social media or video-recording), they are likely to use it again. For second language teachers, sudden or planned-for online instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic may have resulted in their using new or familiar…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, Technology Uses in Education
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Croteau, Caroline; Mottron, Laurent; Dorais, Marc; Tarride, Jean-Eric; Perreault, Sylvie – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2019
A number of cross-sectional studies report extensive use of psychiatric services and high healthcare costs in autistic youths. However, little is known about how the use of these services evolves from the time of diagnosis, as children grow up. Our objectives were to investigate the use, costs, and predictors of psychiatric services following…
Descriptors: Costs, Predictor Variables, Psychiatry, Autism
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Busch, Tobias; Vanpoucke, Filiep; van Wieringen, Astrid – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2017
Purpose: We describe the natural auditory environment of people with cochlear implants (CIs), how it changes across the life span, and how it varies between individuals. Method: We performed a retrospective cross-sectional analysis of Cochlear Nucleus 6 CI sound-processor data logs. The logs were obtained from 1,501 people with CIs (ages 0-96…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Assistive Technology, Life Cycle Costing, Individual Differences
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Fischer, Benedikt; Dawe, Meghan; Mcguire, Fraser; Shuper, Paul A; Jones, Wayne; Rudzinski, Katherine; Rehm, Jurgen – Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy, 2012
Aims: Assess key cannabis use, risk and outcome characteristics among high-frequency cannabis users within a university student sample in Toronto, Canada. Methods: N = 134 active universities students (ages of 18-28) using cannabis at least three times per week were recruited by mass advertisement, telephone-screened and anonymously assessed by an…
Descriptors: Marijuana, Physical Health, Foreign Countries, Student Characteristics
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Roos, Noralou P.; And Others – Gerontologist, 1984
Examined health service utilization by 4,800 Canadian elderly. Findings suggested that most elderly are healthy and are infrequent users of services. Identifies a minority of very high users of health care and discusses the potential influence of physicians on health care use by the elderly. (JAC)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gerontology, Health Services, Older Adults
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Auster, Ethel; Choo, Chun Wei – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1993
A study investigating variables in Canadian Chief Executive Officers' use of information sources to scan external business environments is reported. Findings show that frequency of source use correlates to perceived uncertainty and that source quality is more important than source accessibility--a finding that contradicts past user studies. (28…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Administrators, Business, Correlation
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Nelson, Geoffrey; Ochocka, Joanna; Janzen, Rich; Trainor, John; Goering, Paula; Lomotey, Jonathan – Journal of Community Psychology, 2007
The objective of this study was to evaluate the impacts of participation in mental health Consumer/Survivor Initiatives (CSIs), organizations run by and for people with mental illness. A nonequivalent comparison group design was used to compare three groups of participants: (a) those who were continually active in CSIs over a 36-month period (n =…
Descriptors: Mental Disorders, Quality of Life, Mental Health, Longitudinal Studies
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Gadalla, Tahany M. – Health & Social Work, 2007
This study examines the demographic and physical and mental health characteristics of social work clients among cancer patients in Canada as compared with nonusers of social work services, and factors that affect use of social work services among cancer patients. On the basis of data from two cycles of the Canadian Community Health Survey, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Patients, Public Health, Mental Health
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Cousins, J. Bradley; Leithwood, Kenneth A. – Knowledge: Creation, Diffusion, Utilization, 1993
Discussion of school improvement focuses on a study of Ontario educators that examined their use of various sources of information, including conferences, workshops, and inservice training, for improvement purposes. Knowledge utilization is discussed; interactive processes between the information and the setting are considered; and predictor…
Descriptors: Conferences, Correlation, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
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Cherry, Joan M.; Clinton, Marshall – Canadian Library Journal, 1992
Reports results of 1990 study that examined user satisfaction with OPACs (online public access catalogs) at 5 Ontario universities through interviews with 2,916 students and faculty members. Data on OPAC and computer experience, learning methods, and the effects of several variables on satisfaction are analyzed for the entire sample and for each…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer Literacy, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Collis, Betty; And Others – 1988
The interactions between computer use and access by adolescents and their computer-related opinions and values are presented in the framework of a "manifold model" of computer interactions. This model emphasizes the complexity and multidimensional nature of the system of variables in which such interaction is embedded. For this study,…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Computer Literacy, Developed Nations, Equal Education
Kass, Heidi; And Others – 1988
This paper describes the Manifold Access Model, which has been developed for the simultaneous representation and analysis of the interrelationships between five variable clusters: (1) computer access; (2) personal and social attitudes and values with respect to computer use; (3) self-assessed competence and confidence with respect to computer use;…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Adolescents, Computer Literacy, Developed Nations