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Jackson, Dennis L.; McLellan, Chelsea; Frey, Marc P.; Rauti, Carolyn M. – Canadian Journal of Education, 2020
Academic entitlement (AE), which includes some students' tendencies to express deservingness of academic outcomes, not based on achievement, may have serious implications, such as academic dishonesty and classroom incivility. Some researchers have suggested that there may be different types of students with regard to AE, implying that motives for…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Personality Traits, Classification, Undergraduate Students
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Duncan, Markus J.; Patte, Karen A.; Leatherdale, Scott T. – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2021
Course grades, as an indicator of academic performance, are a primary academic concern at the secondary school level and have been associated with various aspects of mental health status. The purpose of this study is to simultaneously assess whether symptoms of mental illness (depression and anxiety) and mental well-being (psychosocial well-being)…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Predictor Variables, Academic Achievement, Student Behavior
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Woodcock, Stuart; Reupert, Andrea – Teacher Development, 2017
The purpose of this research was to (i) identify Australian, Canadian and United Kingdom (UK) pre-service teachers' use, confidence and success of various classroom management strategies and (ii) to ascertain any significant differences between the three cohorts. Significant differences were found amongst the cohort with the UK pre-service…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Preservice Teachers, Foreign Countries, Student Behavior
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Backenson, Erica M.; Holland, Sara C.; Kubas, Hanna A.; Fitzer, Kim R.; Wilcox, Gabrielle; Carmichael, Jessica A.; Fraccaro, Rebecca L.; Smith, Amanda D.; Macoun, Sarah J.; Harrison, Gina L.; Hale, James B. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2015
Children with specific learning disabilities (SLD) have deficits in the basic psychological processes that interfere with learning and academic achievement, and for some SLD subtypes, these deficits can also lead to emotional and/or behavior problems. This study examined psychosocial functioning in 123 students, aged 6 to 11, who underwent…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Psychological Patterns, Social Development, Children
Lopata, Joel A.; Nowicki, Elizabeth A. – Canadian Journal of Education, 2014
In this study, researchers gathered Canadian pre-service teachers' beliefs on the antecedents to bullying. Concept mapping (Kane & Trochim, 2007) was used to analyze the data. This study's findings identified pre-service teachers to have accurate beliefs, inaccurate beliefs, and a lack of knowledge about the antecedents to bullying. Concept…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Bullying
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Bosacki, Sandra – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2012
Given existing gendered stereotypic assumptions regarding shyness and children's school competencies, this study explored relations among socioemotional competencies, self-perceptions, and receptive vocabulary in shy children. Ninety-one Canadian children (52 girls, 39 boys; 5-8 years) were classified as shy (n = 26) based on teachers' behavioural…
Descriptors: Shyness, Interpersonal Competence, Social Development, Emotional Development