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Yifeng Wei; Robert Mcweeny; Cheryl Shinkaruk; Andrew Baxter; Andrew Greenshaw; Stan Kutcher – American Journal of Health Education, 2025
Background: Mental disorders most likely manifest during adolescence, providing opportunities for schools and professionals to implement standardized mental health literacy (MHL) interventions to support improvement of mental health outcomes. Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate the impact of an MHL intervention (the Guide) on knowledge, stigma,…
Descriptors: Mental Health Programs, Health Behavior, Resources, Grade 8
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Bosacki, Sandra; Sitnik, Valentina; Pissoto Moreira, Flavia; Talwar, Victoria – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2022
This 2-year short-term longitudinal study explored Canadian emerging adolescents' ability to recognize emotions in others, their spontaneous descriptions of themselves and self-understandings, and their narrative and pictorial accounts of themselves engaged in leisure time activities. As part of a larger 5-year longitudinal study, this study…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Self Management, Self Control, Attitudes
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Nivetha Prabaharan; Andrew V. Dane; Natalie Spadafora – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2024
This study investigated characteristics associated with two kinds of peer victimization--bullying victimization and adversarial victimization--distinguished by different balances of power between the perpetrator and victim. Specifically, we examined whether bullying victimization (victim has less power than perpetrator) would be experienced to a…
Descriptors: Bullying, Victims, Power Structure, Preadolescents
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Cho, Daniel; Zatto, Brenna R. L.; Hoglund, Wendy L. G. – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Peer victimization is a common concern in adolescence that includes both relational (e.g., exclusion, rumor spreading) and overt (e.g., hitting, threatening) forms (Crick & Bigbee, 1998). Relational and overt peer victimization have shown to be differentially associated with depressive symptoms, with relational peer victimization showing a…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Victims, Aggression, Bullying
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Smith, Jonathan; Paquin, Stéphane; St-Amand, Jérôme; Singh, Cara; Moreau, Daniel; Bergeron, Julie; Leroux, Mylène – Psychology in the Schools, 2022
This study investigates the effects of an alternative approach to grade retention, known as a "remediation measure." This measure was tested in 2010-2011 in two high schools in Quebec (Canada) and its effects on students' achievement motivation were analyzed. Specifically, the evolution of general and domain-specific expectancy and value…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade Repetition, High School Students, Achievement Need
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Guillaume Morin; Dominique Meilleur – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2024
This study examined the relationships of sociocultural body ideal internalization, difficulties in emotion regulation, and their interaction with body image concerns in a group of 423 Canadian adolescent boys. Participants were 12 to 17 years old and completed multiple self-reported questionnaires. Regression analyses and latent moderation…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Human Body, Adolescents, Males
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Harrison Michael Campbell – English Journal, 2021
In this article, classroom researcher Harrison Campbell recounts his research into the literacy experiences of eight junior high (grades 8 and 9) students over the course of a school semester in Western Canada. Using phenomenological inquiry, Campbell invited students into a process of making meaning through experience. These experiences, brought…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 8, Grade 9, Drama
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Thomas Kennedy – Design and Technology Education, 2023
The purpose of this study was to explore the perceived sense of comfort and belonging of girl participants, aged 15-16, engaged within a school-based offering of the Marine Education Advanced Education (MATE) underwater remotely operated vehicle (ROV) program (MATE-ROV). MATE-ROV is a competition-based educational robotics (ER) program that can…
Descriptors: Females, Adolescents, Robotics, Student Attitudes
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Stephen Sharpe; Gabrielle Young – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2023
This study focuses on the use of Google Classroom as assistive technology in inclusive classrooms. Findings were based on data collected through single-case study methodology in semi-structured formal and informal interviews with eight teachers and a focus group with six students at one junior high school in the province of Newfoundland and…
Descriptors: Assistive Technology, Inclusion, Junior High Schools, Foreign Countries
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Broley, Laura; Buteau, Chantal; Sardella, Jessica – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2023
The importance of computational thinking skills in mathematics has been recognized in educational research for a long time. More recently, this recognition has materialized in formal international recommendations (e.g., by PISA's 2022 Mathematics Framework) and in national or provincial curricular reforms (e.g., in France, Sweden, and Canada) that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education
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Kim, Samuel; Spadafora, Natalie; Craig, Wendy; Volk, Anthony A.; Zhang, Li – School Mental Health, 2021
Bullying is a peer relational problem that can inflict psychological harm onto both those who are victimized and those who witness it occur. Fostering a positive classroom environment is an important protective factor in preventing bullying. Authoritative classroom climates may protect victimized and bystander youth from negative mental health…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bullying, Discipline, Classroom Environment
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Ratelle, Catherine F.; Duchesne, Stéphane; Litalien, David; Plamondon, André – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
School is where adolescents spend the largest share of their waking time. The present study focused on the factors that contribute to students' adjustment to school from a self-determination perspective. We tested the predictive value of parental behaviors (autonomy support, structure, and involvement) on the different dimensions of school…
Descriptors: Mothers, Student Needs, Parent Role, Adolescents
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Lamond, Bronwyn; Cunningham, Todd – Journal of Special Education Technology, 2020
This research examined Grade 6-10 Ontario Certified Teachers' (n = 24) perceptions of assistive technology (AT) and the factors correlated with perceived usefulness of AT. A mixed methods design that included a survey consisting of open- and closed-ended items elicited information about teachers' AT knowledge and training, their basic computer…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Assistive Technology, Grade 6, Grade 7
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Duchesne, Stéphane; Ratelle, Catherine F. – Educational Psychology, 2020
This 2-year prospective study aimed to examine the predictive role of students' achievement goals (mastery-approach and performance-avoidance) on socioemotional adjustment in high school by assessing the potential mediating contribution of academic motivations. A total of 407 high school students (46% boys) were surveyed each year in Secondary 2…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Student Motivation, Emotional Adjustment, Social Adjustment
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Stebbings, Josephine A.; Kline, Erin – International Journal for Research in Learning Disabilities, 2020
This study compared the effectiveness of Orton Gillingham (OG) tutoring and National Institute for Learning Development Educational Therapy (NILD). A randomized controlled trial using 27 participants determined whether academic and cognitive outcomes differed between the groups over a 9-month period. Participants had designated learning…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Intervention, Program Effectiveness
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