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Towards Achieving The Sustainable Development Goal Four (4) In Ghana: The Role Of The Free Senior High School Programme, Bismark Edusei
Towards Achieving The Sustainable Development Goal Four (4) In Ghana: The Role Of The Free Senior High School Programme, Bismark Edusei
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This study was undertaken to explore the Free Senior High School (FSHS) policy’s role in helping to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal 4 in a select Senior High School in the Kumasi Metropolis of Ghana. A qualitative case study was adopted to help achieve the objective of the study. The data was obtained from 20 respondents comprising school management members, teachers, students, policymakers, and parents. These groups were selected for their practical experience and knowledge of the policy on FSHS. Semi-structured interview questions were used to collect data, and subsequently, thematic data analysis was used to analyze the data recorded. …
Exploring The School Experiences Of A Syrian Refugee Student In A Windsor, Ontario Secondary School: A Case Study, Fatima Fakih
Exploring The School Experiences Of A Syrian Refugee Student In A Windsor, Ontario Secondary School: A Case Study, Fatima Fakih
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The Syrian refugee crisis has displaced millions of people and left many children without proper access to education. More than 1,300 Syrian refugees have made Windsor, Ontario their home since the start of the conflicts. The purpose of the study is to explore the experiences of Syrian refugee children in the public school system in Windsor, Ontario by interrogating this issue through the eyes and voice of a Syrian refugee secondary school student. The study is guided by the theoretical perspectives of multiculturalism and culturally responsive pedagogy. Through a blended approach, this case study employs a narrative inquiry and phenomenological …
The Influences Of Canadian Outdoor Adventure Education On Personal And Spiritual Growth, Philip William Robson
The Influences Of Canadian Outdoor Adventure Education On Personal And Spiritual Growth, Philip William Robson
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Canadian outdoor adventure education (Canadian OAE) is a unique teaching method that can create affordances for beneficial outcomes for its participants. In Ontario high schools, Canadian OAE is typically found in Integrated Curriculum Programs with an environmental focus. While there are over 100 of these programs in Ontario school-based opportunities for Canadian OAE have been rare in Windsor-Essex over the last 25 years. However, a Windsor-Essex Christian private high school now offers experiences in Canadian OAE. The purpose of this case study is to describe the influence of a Grade 11 program on its students. Using an online questionnaire and …
Institutional Factors That Influence Creative Arts Students To Pursue Further Education Post-Baccalaureate In An Education- Based Program, Kaitlyn Vivian Anne Karns
Institutional Factors That Influence Creative Arts Students To Pursue Further Education Post-Baccalaureate In An Education- Based Program, Kaitlyn Vivian Anne Karns
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Ontario Universities offer a variety of undergraduate programs that could be classified as creative arts programs. Whether these programs focus on one specific major, such as a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting, or concurrent programming, such as a concurrent music and education program, students have a variety of choices for their post-secondary studies. The current body of scholarly literature examines many reoccurring factors that influence a student’s choice post-baccalaureate. These factors include socio-economics, institutional characteristics, and student experience. A majority of literature addressing these three factors focuses on students enrolled in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) programs, suggesting …
Protect Your Brain: The Impact Of An Educational Intervention On Helmet Use In Adolescents, Daniella Mlinarevic
Protect Your Brain: The Impact Of An Educational Intervention On Helmet Use In Adolescents, Daniella Mlinarevic
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According to Statistics Canada (2016), approximately 70% of children aged 15-17 in Ontario reported cycling over the last year. It is the law in Ontario that any cyclist under 18 wear a helmet (Ministry of Transportation, 2016). Despite this regulation, less than half of teenagers in Ontario report always wearing their helmet when cycling (Statistics Canada, 2016). This is a clear cause for concern when considering the prominence of brain injury due to cycling-related accidents (Coronado et al., 2007; Burt & Overpeck, 2001). This project attempted to address this issue by analyzing whether an educational intervention based on the functions …
The Effects Of Introducing Prenatal Breastfeeding Education In The Obstetricians' Waiting Rooms, Donna Manlongat
The Effects Of Introducing Prenatal Breastfeeding Education In The Obstetricians' Waiting Rooms, Donna Manlongat
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The literature has reported great benefits of breastfeeding for both the mother and newborn. In light of the low numbers of women breastfeeding in Ontario, even fewer women attending prenatal classes, and limited amount of cost free prenatal classes available, a need was identified to consider alternate modes of prenatal breastfeeding education. The purpose of this thesis was to explore the effects of providing self-directed study materials in the forms of breastfeeding education videos, smartphone applications, and reading materials to prenatal women during their third trimester appointments in the obstetrician’s waiting room. The idea of presenting innovative modes of prenatal …
Altering Assessment For Greater Achievement: An Evaluation Of Students’ Attitudes And Level Of Engagement With Mtuner, Lindsay Shaw
Altering Assessment For Greater Achievement: An Evaluation Of Students’ Attitudes And Level Of Engagement With Mtuner, Lindsay Shaw
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With technology at the fingertips of most undergraduate students, it has been difficult for instructors to fully engage them in the classroom, which has resulted in the creation of several innovative interventions, such as mTuner. mTuner integrates several cognitive learning strategies within an assessment, with the goal of actually enhancing learning, as opposed to just measuring it. In the current study, students’ attitudes, level of engagement, and performance were evaluated, with specific explorations into academic entitlement (AE), test anxiety (TA), learning orientation (LO) and grade orientation (GO). Results indicated that students had very positive attitudes toward mTuner, especially in comparison …
Exploring Self-Perceived Hand Hygiene Practices Among Undergraduate Nursing Students, Anne Foote
Exploring Self-Perceived Hand Hygiene Practices Among Undergraduate Nursing Students, Anne Foote
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The consistent performance of hand hygiene by health care providers is the single most effective strategy to prevent the transmission of health care associated infections. An anonymous questionnaire to explore self-perceived hand hygiene compliance rates, predictors of compliance, and barriers to compliance was completed by 306 nursing students registered at the University of Windsor, in Ontario, Canada. Overall, 74.8% of participants were considered to be hand hygiene compliant, indicating that their compliance was greater than 90% both before and after having had direct patient contact. Logistic regression analysis suggested that seven variables were independent predictors of hand hygiene compliance: participant's …
Lesson Study-Building Communities Of Learning Among Pre-Service Science Teachers, Fouada Hamzeh
Lesson Study-Building Communities Of Learning Among Pre-Service Science Teachers, Fouada Hamzeh
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Lesson Study is a widely used pedagogical approach that has been used for decades in its country of origin, Japan. It is a teacher-led form of professional development that involves the collaborative efforts of teachers in co-planning and observing the teaching of a lesson within a unit for evidence that the teaching practices used help the learning process (Lewis, 2002a). The purpose of this research was to investigate if Lesson Study enables pre-service teachers to improve their own teaching in the area of science inquiry-based approaches. Also explored are the self-efficacy beliefs of one group of science pre-service teachers related …
An Investigation Of The Challenges Experienced By Somali Refugee Students In Canadian Elementary Schools, Mohamad Najib Ayoub
An Investigation Of The Challenges Experienced By Somali Refugee Students In Canadian Elementary Schools, Mohamad Najib Ayoub
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The purpose of this qualitative research was to investigate the challenges and experiences of Somali refugee students as they integrate into Canadian English elementary public schools. The method of data collection in this study was one-on-one interviews. A total of seven Somali refugee students were interviewed. The exploration into the participants' experiences revealed that they faced many pre-migration challenges in refugee camps before resettling in Canada, as well as post-migration challenges with settlement and integration into Canadian culture and school systems. Members of the school community, including educators, administrators, and students, have a major role to play in supporting Somali …
Instructional Coaching Relationships: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, Deanna Marie Elizabeth Fougere
Instructional Coaching Relationships: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, Deanna Marie Elizabeth Fougere
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With the recent adoption of the literacy/instructional coaching model in many Ontario school boards, there is a need to further examine the coaching relationship between the coach and coachee and how it creates a space conducive for professional learning to occur. This study adopted a qualitative approach using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) to examine the lived experience of instructional coaching and the instructional coaching relationship in the secondary school setting from a strengths-based perspective. Three instructional coaches and three corresponding coachees in a southwestern Ontario school board participated in semi-structured interviews. The notions of trust, growth, and power and resistance …
Gender, Class And Curriculum At W.D. Lowe Technical Secondary School, 1923-1973: A Study In Continuity And Change, Kael Rodrique Sharman
Gender, Class And Curriculum At W.D. Lowe Technical Secondary School, 1923-1973: A Study In Continuity And Change, Kael Rodrique Sharman
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In June 1973, a series of contextual changes took their toll, ending the means by which W.D. Lowe Technical School (WDLTS, previously called Windsor-Walkerville Technical School) enriched Windsor's students for 50 years, marking the end of a unique kind of academic performance. Its story punctuated with external influences compounding to create a school culturally earmarked with the moniker `Lowe Tech'. However, while historical aspects of policy, attitudes, and pragmatic foci of technical schools have changed, the particular approach WDLTS had in building the technical and creative capacities of students have yet to be investigated. WDLTS offers compelling insights into the …
Accommodating The Wikipedia Project In Higher Education: A University Of Windsor Case Study, Timothy A. Brunet
Accommodating The Wikipedia Project In Higher Education: A University Of Windsor Case Study, Timothy A. Brunet
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This study explores the question: How has higher education accommodated methods for organizing and disseminating knowledge during the development of the Wikipedia project? The prominence of the Wikipedia project on the Internet has caused an increasing interaction with higher education. This interaction creates an opportunity to consider how knowledge is organized and disseminated within both communities. The Wikimedia foundation has expressed their desire to make Wikipedia more scholarly and more stable. Members of the higher education community want their organizations to be more efficient, nimble, and accessible. Thematic analysis of interviews conducted with subject matter experts suggested that the use …
Parent And Young Adolescent Perspectives Of Family Meals And Meal Preparation And The Influence Of The Kinect-Ed Program, Jillian Ciccone
Parent And Young Adolescent Perspectives Of Family Meals And Meal Preparation And The Influence Of The Kinect-Ed Program, Jillian Ciccone
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Recently, public health messaging has included having more family meals and involving young adolescents (YAs) with meal preparation in order to improve healthful diets and family dinner frequency (FDF). Kinect-Ed, a nutrition education program included a motivational presentation created to encourage YAs (grades 6-8) to help with meal preparation and ultimately improve FDF. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the Kinect-Ed presentation, correlations between YA/parent dyad responses, and to determine parents' perception of the Kinect-Ed. Participants consisted of YAs (n=113), and dyads (n=219) from the Niagara Region. Kinect-Ed successfully improved participants' FDF, food preparation frequency, self-efficacy for cooking, …
An Examination Of The Relationship Between Professional Learning Community Variables And Teacher Self-Efficacy, Margot Heaton
An Examination Of The Relationship Between Professional Learning Community Variables And Teacher Self-Efficacy, Margot Heaton
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High levels of teacher self-efficacy have repeatedly been identified as a key attribute of effective teachers. The problems addressed by this study stem from the lack of research regarding the potential relationships between teachers' self-efficacy and professional learning community (PLC) variables. Uncovering these relationships could potentially have many implications for University curriculum and the planning of professional growth opportunities for teachers. This study explored the predictive capacity of the six pillars of professional learning community in relation to participating Ontario teachers' self-efficacy, measured through their Teacher Sense of Efficacy Scores (TSES). Correlation analyses and multiple regression analyses suggested that professional …
The Impact Of Motor Skill Training On Balance, Hand-Eye Coordination And Reaction In A Group Of Adults With Autism And An Intellectual Disability, Phillip Mckeen
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Individuals with autism and intellectual disability (ID) commonly display motor impairments, and these impairments are positively correlated to intellectual level and autism symptoms. In the present thesis, an intervention involving motor skills training, whole body exercise, sports and games was used to improve balance, fine and gross motor manual control and reaction time in a group of adults with autism and ID. Fine motor skill was measured using the 25 Grooved Pegboard Test, gross motor skill of the upper extremities was measured with the Box and Blocks Test, and reaction time was measured with the Stick Catching Test. Additionally, medial-lateral …
The Role Of Parents In Maintaining Cultural Values In Vietnamese Immigrant Families In Windsor, Xuan Le Nguyen
The Role Of Parents In Maintaining Cultural Values In Vietnamese Immigrant Families In Windsor, Xuan Le Nguyen
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This study, with narrative inquiry approach, has investigated the parents' perception of their roles, their perspectives and experience as well as their strategies in maintaining cultural values in immigrant families in Windsor. Eight parents from four immigrant families from the Vietnamese church community in Windsor participated in semi-structured in-depth interviews. Fieldnotes were also used as a supplementary method for collecting field text. The findings highlight the educational roles of parents in maintaining cultural values as a part of the home education. The parents' narratives has shown the parents' great effort to keep the language, habits and traditions such as "respect …
Professional Learning On Twitter: A Content Analysis Of Professional Learning Conversations Among Self-Organized Groups Of Educators, Kelly-Ann K. Power
Professional Learning On Twitter: A Content Analysis Of Professional Learning Conversations Among Self-Organized Groups Of Educators, Kelly-Ann K. Power
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This study explores the nature of professional learning conversations taking place in an online microblogging platform known as Twitter, through the lens of the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework (Garrison, Anderson & Archer, 2000). The CoI framework offers an approach to further understand elements of cognitive presence, social presence, and teaching presence found in constructivist learning environments among educators. A content analysis was conducted on three distinct participant-driven educational Twitter chats demonstrating each chat to contain elements of cognitive presence, social presence, and teaching presence. This finding led to a deeper understanding about the use of questioning techniques and facilitation …
Adolescents' Perspectives Of Physical Education: A National And Local Focus, Alexandra C. Wiseman
Adolescents' Perspectives Of Physical Education: A National And Local Focus, Alexandra C. Wiseman
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While PE is as an avenue for students to be physically active and learn about health behaviours; PE enrolment is declining. Mixed methodology was used to examine adolescents' health profiles and gain understanding of their perspectives of PE. Part 1 identified relationships over a two year period between: PE Rating, PA, and health variables using data from the NLSCY. Part 2 examined adolescents' perspective of PE through four focus groups. Overall, PE was preferred over other subjects by 78% of participants; and preferring PE predicted higher frequencies of PA, lower BMI, and higher self-esteem. Participation in high school PE was …
Using Critical Discourse Analysis To Address The Gaps, Exclusions And Oversights In Active Citizenship Education, Louise Gonsalvez
Using Critical Discourse Analysis To Address The Gaps, Exclusions And Oversights In Active Citizenship Education, Louise Gonsalvez
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There is great concern that active citizenship policies, curriculum and/or pedagogy are not working effectively, and many researchers are seeking ways to engage students more in public affairs and political realities. In this dissertation, I explore the captivating universe of active citizenship education and the discourses that propel it, using critical theory, documentary method and critical discourse analysis. I analyze over 400 documents that directly or indirectly relate to citizenship education to determine where we have been, where we currently are, and where we ought to go with active citizenship education. As a result of my research, I discovered that …
Sociocultural Implications On The Learning Of Youth With Concurrent Disorders: Factors That Are Perceived As Necessary For Student Success In Mainstream Classrooms, Bonnie Belczowski
Sociocultural Implications On The Learning Of Youth With Concurrent Disorders: Factors That Are Perceived As Necessary For Student Success In Mainstream Classrooms, Bonnie Belczowski
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Research indicates that a significant proportion of adolescent students have a concurrent disorder that is significant enough to cause social or educational impairment. Thus the potential consequences of this condition on students as they progress through adolescence cannot be denied. The present study explored the factors perceived by teachers, administrators, and psychologists to be important in helping this population of students to achieve academic and social success in a mainstream classroom. The results of this study indicate that the number of adolescent students exhibiting symptoms of a concurrent disorder within the secondary school environment has increased in recent years. While …
Critical Visual Literacy: Exploring Representations Of Aboriginal Peoples In Children's Literature, Patricia Dunn
Critical Visual Literacy: Exploring Representations Of Aboriginal Peoples In Children's Literature, Patricia Dunn
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The purpose of this study is to explore how Aboriginal peoples and knowledges have been and continue to be portrayed through visual texts in children's picture books. This study examines children's books that were published from 1960 through to 2010. This exploration is important as students and educators interact with these texts in their daily lives both inside and outside of school. Drawing from a critical literacy framework, a critical text analysis is used to gain insight into representations of Aboriginal and First Nations people in children's books. While critical literacy practice is a key component in education today, there …
Plagiarism Self-Reported Rates, Understandings, And Education Among Teacher Candidates In A Faculty Of Education, Julia Colella
Plagiarism Self-Reported Rates, Understandings, And Education Among Teacher Candidates In A Faculty Of Education, Julia Colella
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Although academic misconduct studies are common, less research on plagiarism, a specific type of academic misconduct, is available. This study has two groups of participants: teacher candidates and pre-service faculty instructors in a Faculty of Education in a southwestern Canadian university. This quantitative, online study investigates the plagiarism reporting rate among teacher candidates from different undergraduate disciplines as well as understandings of plagiarism and plagiarism information among both groups of participants. Findings from this study revealed that approximately half of the teacher candidates plagiarized at least once during their time in the B.Ed. program, and engaging in plagiarism does not …
Does Frequent Use Of Signature Strengths Enhance Academic Well-Being? , Phillip Anton Ianni
Does Frequent Use Of Signature Strengths Enhance Academic Well-Being? , Phillip Anton Ianni
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The present study investigated the effect of strengths use on students' academic well-being. Specifically, it examined 'StrengthsQuest', a workbook-based program that helps students identify and utilize their natural talents, also known as 'signature strengths'. The present study sought to answer whether strengths use is associated with higher marks, academic happiness, and academic flow. University students ( n = 292) completed an eight week StrengthsQuest program. GPA data were obtained using self-report and from the Registrar's Office. Other data were obtained via questionnaires administered at two time points: before and after students completed the StrengthsQuest program. Although the present study found …
Examining The Collaborative Structure In Full Day Kindergarten Educator Teams, Laura Callaghan
Examining The Collaborative Structure In Full Day Kindergarten Educator Teams, Laura Callaghan
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This research study explores the development of a co-teaching relationship in the setting of the Full Day Kindergarten classroom. Ontario is presently implementing Full Day Kindergarten programming across the province following a five year implementation plan, with the goal of full implementation by 2015-16. The Full Day Kindergarten model in Ontario, based on recommendations from Charles Pascal utilizes educator teams, comprised of a kindergarten teacher and early childhood educator, working together throughout the day in the Full Day Kindergarten classroom. Integrating outside personnel into elementary schools to create educator teams can create challenges (Gibson &Pelletier, 2010). The purpose of this …
It's All In How You See It: Predicting Parents' Treatment Selection For Their Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders, Brianne Drouillard
It's All In How You See It: Predicting Parents' Treatment Selection For Their Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders, Brianne Drouillard
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The purpose of the present study was to identify the relations between nine dimensions of parents' cognitive representations of ASD, their acceptance of their children's ASD, and their treatment selection for their children with ASD. Parents of children with ASD aged 21 years and younger ( N = 124) completed an online survey, with 10 of those parents completing telephone follow-up interviews. Logistic regression analyses revealed that stronger beliefs in personal control over one's child's ASD were associated with selection of medication-based treatments, while stronger beliefs in external causes of ASD were associated with selection of metabolic treatments. Correlation analyses …
Chinese Immigrant Parents Involvement In The Education Of Their Elementary School Children In Windsor, Ontario: Perceptions And Practices, Lan Zhong
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In the past two decades, there has been an increasing number of Chinese immigrants to Canada. Consequently, children of those immigrants are becoming a large component of the school age population. The purpose of this study was to examine the behaviors and perspectives of Chinese immigrant parents getting involved in the education of their elementary school age children in Canada; and to gain a better understanding of how those parents’ behaviors and perspectives of parenting are influenced by their personal experiences and the culture they live with. Based on a sociocultural theory, this qualitative study employed interviews to explore parental …
Chinese Immigrant Parents' Communication With Their Children's School Teachers: Experiences, Expectations And Challenges, Fan Jiang
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Using mixed methods research design, this study aimed to explore and examine Chinese immigrant parents' communication experiences with their children's school teachers. First, quantitative data was collected through 167 survey questionnaires in order to identify Chinese immigrant parents' experiences, satisfaction, challenges, and expectations of communicating with school teachers. Semi-structured interviews were then conducted with eight Chinese immigrant parents to get qualitative data for an in-depth understanding of the issues discovered through the survey. Results showed that Chinese parents felt highly responsible for communicating with teachers and were very willing to maintain timely, effective and regular communications with teachers. They sought …
In Search Of A Place To Be: Perspectives Of Creative Female Adolescents On Their First Year Of High School, Anne Arthur
In Search Of A Place To Be: Perspectives Of Creative Female Adolescents On Their First Year Of High School, Anne Arthur
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This study undertook to elicit and characterize the transition strategies that creatively-inclined students adopted to manage their first year of high school in Southeastern Ontario. The grounded theory research design included two semi-structured interviews with 12 female Grade Nine students and a content analysis of their multi-modal journals and provincial report cards. Participants' creative-thinking aptitudes were assessed using the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking and these findings, in combination with interview, journal and report card data were employed to designate four Ideal Types: creatively-inclined participants at high-risk of academic failure (n=5); creatively-inclined participants at low-risk of academic failure (n=2); creatively-disinclined …
Comparing Information Literacy Needs Of Graduate Students In Selected Graduate Programs Through The Technology Acceptance Model And Affordance Theory, Jelena Magliaro
Comparing Information Literacy Needs Of Graduate Students In Selected Graduate Programs Through The Technology Acceptance Model And Affordance Theory, Jelena Magliaro
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The aim of this sequential integrated mixed model design study was to examine information literacy (IL) levels and needs of graduate students in education, social studies, and humanities at the mid-size Canadian university. This was done through surveying 201 graduate students who volunteered to fill-in a quantitative questionnaire that included supplementary open-ended questions. To triangulate data and as part of the chosen methodological approach, 16 graduate students also took part in the semi-structured follow-up interviews which included observation of the participants on-task behaviour. In order to consider the IL of graduate students in the larger context of a library information …