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Caught Off Guard: The Fascinating Power Of Surprise In Capturing Covert And Overt Attention, Shahd Abu-Jazar
Caught Off Guard: The Fascinating Power Of Surprise In Capturing Covert And Overt Attention, Shahd Abu-Jazar
Brescia Psychology Undergraduate Honours Theses
Attention is a critical mental process that allows individuals to focus on pertinent information and filter out distractors. This study's primary goal was to examine how surprise draws attention, which is significant as it may have an impact on memory and learning. This study examines the influence of surprise on attentional capture, both overt and covert, across different levels of outcome predictability in everyday situations using repeated measures ANOVAs. Building on the concept that unexpected events can trigger heightened alertness and memory encoding, we hypothesized that scenarios with less-known outcomes would elicit a stronger attentional response compared to known and …
Hands-On History: Applying A Strong Like Two People Approach To Archaeology Education, Kaylee Woldum
Hands-On History: Applying A Strong Like Two People Approach To Archaeology Education, Kaylee Woldum
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
This thesis explores Indigenization in the context of archaeology and Western education at the Tundra Science and Culture Camp (TSCC), a government-run summer camp in the Northwest Territories, Canada. By collaborating with Indigenous knowledge holders, it begins the process of re-designing the Human History session—a program within the TSCC that focuses on archaeology and the cultural sites around the camp—to incorporate more Indigenous pedagogies and knowledge. Drawing on semi-structured interviews and participant observation, this thesis outlines an attempt to Indigenize the Human History session at the 2022 TSCC, its successes and challenges, and diverse conceptions of what it would mean …
Screen Time Use And Children’S Mental Health During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Amira Hmidan
Screen Time Use And Children’S Mental Health During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Amira Hmidan
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Parents with school-aged children have experienced numerous hardships during the 2020-2021 academic school year, including school closures, lockdowns, and travel restrictions. Higher levels of parent stress and screen time may adversely impact children’s behavioural outcomes. This longitudinal survey study examined the associations of parent stress, parenting styles, and prolonged screentime on internalizing and externalizing behaviours in school-aged children. Parents (n = 108) completed survey measures at two time points over the 2020-2021 academic school year. Two generalized estimating equations were performed. There was a significant positive interaction between parent stress and screen time (B = < .001; p = .001) …
The Rural Effect On School Closures And The Limitations Within The Provincial Policy Framework, Shannon Geraghty
The Rural Effect On School Closures And The Limitations Within The Provincial Policy Framework, Shannon Geraghty
MPA Major Research Papers
As costs rise, the Ministry of Education and school boards have cut costs by closing schools. The social fabric and economic growth of rural areas are negatively affected by school closures. On the basis of an examination of recent school closure processes in the Upper Canada District School Board in eastern Ontario, this paper recommends explicit incorporation of economic impacts in closure studies, reform to the distribution of provincial education funding, and greater public engagement.
Parental Support For Newcomer Children’S Education In A Smaller Centre, Xuemei Li, Antoinette Doyle, Maureen Lymburner, Needal Yasin Ghadi
Parental Support For Newcomer Children’S Education In A Smaller Centre, Xuemei Li, Antoinette Doyle, Maureen Lymburner, Needal Yasin Ghadi
Comparative and International Education / Éducation Comparée et Internationale
This study explored the issues around parental support for newcomer children’s transition to school in a smaller urban centre in Atlantic Canada where newcomer support is relatively limited. Data were drawn from semi-structured interviews with 11 newcomer parents, five children, and one settlement worker. The findings revealed newcomer parents’ difficulties in understanding the school system, limited engagement with the school community, isolation from other parents, and barriers to understanding and connecting with other parents. Among these newcomers, refugee parents are particularly challenged. We conclude that newcomer children’s parental involvement need to be viewed multi-dimensionally, and that the creation of a …
Staying Current In Your Field Of Interest: Tips For Aspiring Students As Researchers, Dor D. Abelman
Staying Current In Your Field Of Interest: Tips For Aspiring Students As Researchers, Dor D. Abelman
Health Studies Publications
Undergraduate students are becoming increasingly involved in research. They already posses the skills required to make meaningful contributions to their field of interest. Some important components of their success relates to a student's ability to stay up to date in the research of their field, and to learn practical skills pertaining to the publishing process. This article hopes to help with this through presenting easy-to-follow summary tables and short paragraphs on tips for success. Topics include staying up to date in a practical way, getting involved, reaching out for help, and publication. For students, by students, this report is relatable …
Transnational Engagement And Immigrants’ Well-Being In Canada, Jonathan Anim Amoyaw
Transnational Engagement And Immigrants’ Well-Being In Canada, Jonathan Anim Amoyaw
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
After migration, most immigrants do not dissociate themselves from their relational networks in their homeland. Instead, they nourish, reproduce, and maintain ties with their non-migrant relatives and friends by engaging in various forms of transnational activities. Within the transnational paradigm, remittances are central to maintaining transnational relationships. Immigrants’ demonstration of affection and solidarity in the absence of physical propinquity and intimacy is highly contingent on their remittance transfers. Over the years, the motives, determinants, benefits, and consequences of these financial flows on the well-being of recipients in origin communities have been extensively studied. However, the existing literature is mainly informed …
Physical Culture As Citizenship Education At Pelican Lake Indian Residential School, 1926-1970, Braden Paora Te Hiwi
Physical Culture As Citizenship Education At Pelican Lake Indian Residential School, 1926-1970, Braden Paora Te Hiwi
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Pelican Lake Indian residential school, also known as Sioux Lookout Indian residential school, was an Anglican run institution that was a part of the Canadian residential school system; the school operated from 1926 to 1970. It is well established in the literature that the Department of Indian Affairs intended to evangelize, assimilate, and civilize its students, but the function of citizenship in the residential schools is less well known. The focus of this study was to examine physical culture activities, specifically sport, exercise, and recreation as a form of training for citizenship. In particular, I centered this research on the …
Teaching Restless Bodies: Teachers’ Negotiations Of Adhd In Sarnia, Ontario, Patrick Galler
Teaching Restless Bodies: Teachers’ Negotiations Of Adhd In Sarnia, Ontario, Patrick Galler
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has come to be a way of being a person. In practical activities, concepts from various scientific paradigms come to be embodied. The categorical, yet historically transient, 'reality' of ADHD emerges from people's use of the classification to organize experiences of the behaviours, emotions and drugs associated with the category. This thesis explores how a group of teachers and principals from Sarnia, Ontario make sense of their role in the medicalization of childhood behaviours in relation to the classification ADHD. Previous studies have examined the perspectives of patients, parents, and physicians regarding ADHD, but despite depictions of …
A Collaborative Approach To Improving Information Ethics Education, Alissa Centivany, Michael Zimmer, Melissa Chalmers, Rebecca Frank
A Collaborative Approach To Improving Information Ethics Education, Alissa Centivany, Michael Zimmer, Melissa Chalmers, Rebecca Frank
FIMS Publications
Abstract Information professionals manage, organize, preserve, create, design, implement, and control the information systems, services, goods, and devices that are both ubiquitous in and essential to our daily existence. But where there is great power, there is also great responsibility. Recent events suggest that information professionals may benefit from enhanced education and training to prepare them to respond to the ethical challenges they will encounter in their work in socially responsible ways. Improving information ethics education is one step toward beginning to build a strong foundation in this space moving forward. Participants in this workshop will explore and identify key …
Post-Secondary Promises: What Do Ontario Municipalities Expect To Realize From University Satellite Campuses?, Brittney Yeats
Post-Secondary Promises: What Do Ontario Municipalities Expect To Realize From University Satellite Campuses?, Brittney Yeats
MPA Major Research Papers
This paper examines the local impact of university satellite campuses by focusing on the factors that motivate municipalities to pursue a satellite campus and the benefits they intend to realize with these developments. It uses four case studies – Laurier Brantford, Lakehead Orillia, McMaster Burlington, and University of Waterloo Stratford – as well as a diverse range of literature to gain further insight on the motivations and expected benefits that municipalities seek to accomplish. The findings reveal that municipalities pursue university satellite campuses as a form of development policy, with the expected benefits far exceeding the perceived costs to the …
Technology Based Mental Health Support Strategies For Youth, Kathleen S. Larion
Technology Based Mental Health Support Strategies For Youth, Kathleen S. Larion
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
The purpose of this study was to investigate youth mental health concerns and technology based support strategies from the perspective of local youth. Semi-structured focus group interviews were conducted with a group of youth who attend area high schools and postsecondary institutions. The youth were asked two main questions: 1) What mental health problems do you think youth are experiencing? 2) What are some support strategies that youth can use, particularly in the school system, that are technology based? During the second focus group interview the youth were given a list of their responses and asked to organize them into …
Expanding The Basic Science Debate: The Role Of Physics Knowledge In Interpreting Clinical Findings., Mark Goldszmidt, John Paul Minda, Sarah L Devantier, Aimee L Skye, Nicole N Woods
Expanding The Basic Science Debate: The Role Of Physics Knowledge In Interpreting Clinical Findings., Mark Goldszmidt, John Paul Minda, Sarah L Devantier, Aimee L Skye, Nicole N Woods
Brain and Mind Institute Researchers' Publications
Current research suggests a role for biomedical knowledge in learning and retaining concepts related to medical diagnosis. However, learning may be influenced by other, non-biomedical knowledge. We explored this idea using an experimental design and examined the effects of causal knowledge on the learning, retention, and interpretation of medical information. Participants studied a handout about several respiratory disorders and how to interpret respiratory exam findings. The control group received the information in standard "textbook" format and the experimental group was presented with the same information as well as a causal explanation about how sound travels through lungs in both the …
Gender, Culture And Intervention: Exploring Differences Between Aboriginal And Non-Aboriginal Children’S Responses To An Early Intervention Programme, Gary W. Robinson, William B. Tyler, Sven R. Silburn, Stephen R. Zubrick
Gender, Culture And Intervention: Exploring Differences Between Aboriginal And Non-Aboriginal Children’S Responses To An Early Intervention Programme, Gary W. Robinson, William B. Tyler, Sven R. Silburn, Stephen R. Zubrick
Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)
Evaluation of a group parenting programme in the Northern Territory of Australia showed significant differences in benefits for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal boys and girls. The analysis considers whether boys and girls from different cultural backgrounds present with different problems; whether parental expectations for boys and girls differ and whether the intervention activates different responses in different settings. Conclusions suggest that there is a need to closely examine the ‘cultural logic’ of interventions, the appropriateness of their assumptions about child development and hypothesised mechanisms of change in different settings.
A Graduate Degree In Library Or Information Science Is Required, But Not Sufficient, To Enter The Profession, Nazi Torabi
A Graduate Degree In Library Or Information Science Is Required, But Not Sufficient, To Enter The Profession, Nazi Torabi
Western Libraries Publications
No abstract provided.
Reflections Of Indian Teacher Education Program Graduates: Considerations For Educational Policy And Research, Randolph Wimmer, Louise Legare, Yvette Arcand, Michael Cottrell
Reflections Of Indian Teacher Education Program Graduates: Considerations For Educational Policy And Research, Randolph Wimmer, Louise Legare, Yvette Arcand, Michael Cottrell
Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)
No abstract provided.
First Nations Schoolnet And The Migration Of Broadband And Community-Based Ict Applications, Tim Whiteduck
First Nations Schoolnet And The Migration Of Broadband And Community-Based Ict Applications, Tim Whiteduck
Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)
No abstract provided.
Introduction, Jerry White, Julie Peters, Peter Dinsdale, Dan Beavon
Introduction, Jerry White, Julie Peters, Peter Dinsdale, Dan Beavon
Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)
No abstract provided.
Library School Curricula In The Us Should Address Liaison Responsibilities For Students Interested In Academic Librarianship, Nazi Torabi
Western Libraries Publications
No abstract provided.
Exploring The Influence Of School And Community Relationships On The Performance Of Aboriginal Students In British Columbia Public Schools, Cheryl Aman
Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)
No abstract provided.
A Short History Of Aboriginal Education In Canada, Jerry P. White, Julie Peters
A Short History Of Aboriginal Education In Canada, Jerry P. White, Julie Peters
Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)
No abstract provided.
Aboriginal Education: Current Crisis And Future Alternatives, Julie Peters, Jerry P. White
Aboriginal Education: Current Crisis And Future Alternatives, Julie Peters, Jerry P. White
Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)
No abstract provided.
2007-1 The Effect Of Credit Constraints On The College Drop-Out Decision: A Direct Approach Using A New Panel Study, Todd R. Stinebrickner, Ralph Stinebrickner
2007-1 The Effect Of Credit Constraints On The College Drop-Out Decision: A Direct Approach Using A New Panel Study, Todd R. Stinebrickner, Ralph Stinebrickner
Centre for Human Capital and Productivity. CHCP Working Papers
No abstract provided.
Culture-Sensitive Mathematics: The Walpole Island Experience, Anthony N. Ezeife
Culture-Sensitive Mathematics: The Walpole Island Experience, Anthony N. Ezeife
Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)
No abstract provided.
2005-4 What Can Be Learned About Peer Effects Using College Roommates? Evidence From New Survey Data And Students From Disadvantaged Backgrounds, Todd R. Stinebrickner, Ralph Stinebrickner
2005-4 What Can Be Learned About Peer Effects Using College Roommates? Evidence From New Survey Data And Students From Disadvantaged Backgrounds, Todd R. Stinebrickner, Ralph Stinebrickner
Centre for Human Capital and Productivity. CHCP Working Papers
No abstract provided.
2003-7 The Long-Term Effects Of Graduating From High School During A Recession: Bad Luck Or Forced Opportunity?, Audra J. Bowlus, Haoming Liu
2003-7 The Long-Term Effects Of Graduating From High School During A Recession: Bad Luck Or Forced Opportunity?, Audra J. Bowlus, Haoming Liu
Centre for Human Capital and Productivity. CHCP Working Papers
No abstract provided.
2002-4 Intergenerational Persistence Of Earnings: The Role Of Early And College Education, Diego Restuccia, Carlos Urrutia
2002-4 Intergenerational Persistence Of Earnings: The Role Of Early And College Education, Diego Restuccia, Carlos Urrutia
Economic Policy Research Institute. EPRI Working Papers
No abstract provided.
Overview Of Consciousness Research, Imants Barušs
Overview Of Consciousness Research, Imants Barušs
Psychology
The purpose of this paper is to orient the reader to the contemporary scientific study of consciousness. One of the most noticeable features of research concerning consciousness is that there are three domains of discourse, the physiological, computational and experiential, each with its own methodology, and concerns. While confusion is often expressed about what it is that one is discussing, there are four main categories of definitions of the term consciousness: consciousness is the registration, processing and acting on information; behavioural consciousness is the explicit knowledge of one's situation, mental states or actions as demonstrated by one's behaviour; subjective consciousness …