The Community Outreach Centre (COC) is part of the Community Development portfolio in the Division of Student Affairs at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. It opened in fall 2007 as a resource and support centre for students who live off campus. The overarching goal of the centre is to cultivate community among off-campus students…

A rural school district with no psychological services and a nearby university education clinic designed and implemented a short-term clinical program for the district schools. Objectives for the project were defined by the district and the university. A group of 41 children was assessed and given follow-up treatment. (Author)

Since 1977, the visa student population in the North York (Ontario) schools has increased from 89 to approximately 540 in the 1983-84 school year, with the vast majority coming from Hong Kong. The current services for visa students were examined with respect to the appropriateness of the educational experience offered to visa students; the…

This document reviews the results of the first comprehensive survey of the first year in Canadian postsecondary education, and examines the range and consequences of courses of study. It explores students' perceptions of their first year, and evaluates the programs and services that were offered. Chapter 1 compares and contrasts the American and…

As career development becomes established in Canadian secondary schools, the pressure increases to use performance assessments to demonstrate both the effectiveness of programs and the soundness of instructional decisions. This digest examines issues surrounding performance assessments of career development programs. Performance assessments can be…