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Direct linkKaren Robson; Nicole Malette; Paul Anisef; Reana Maier; Robert Brown – Canadian Journal of Education, 2023
While a number of factors have already been shown to impact variations in graduation rates among students in Canada, there is little research examining the changing impact of these factors on Ontario students' secondary education completion over time. This research draws on data from two Grade 9 cohorts (2006 and 2011) from the Toronto District…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduation Rate, Predictor Variables, Secondary Education
Elgie, Bill; MacLean, Ross; Dykstra, Rebecca – Pathways: The Ontario Journal of Outdoor Education, 2007
In Grade 9, Upper Canada College (UCC) students participate in a week-long outdoor education program in Halton Region, west of Toronto. This week is the culmination of over 60 days of total outdoor education programming between Senior Kindergarten and Grade 9. Activities during the expedition include moving water canoeing, mountain biking, hiking,…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Recreational Facilities, Foreign Countries, Grade 9
Peer reviewedDavis, Bob – History and Social Science Teacher, 1981
As part of a project in working class history, ninth grade students conduct a bean bake for 1500 people. They cook pork-and-beans in huge black pots fueled day and night by two cords of wood and bake 1500 rolls of bread. An old-fashioned hoedown follows the feed. (KC)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Experiential Learning, Grade 9, History Instruction
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1985
This is the final test for students in the ninth-grade science course offered in Alberta (Canada) schools. Intended for administration during June 1985, it contains 75 multiple-choice questions. Ninety minutes are allowed for completing the test. An answer key is not included. (JN)
Descriptors: General Science, Grade 9, Science Education, Science Tests
Peer reviewedRodman, Lilita – English Quarterly, 1974
Analyzes the results of the Survey of Canadian English for the province of British Columbia in an effort to compare regional variations in language usage. (RB)
Descriptors: Educational Research, English, Grade 9, Language Usage
Kooy, Mary – 1992
A study explored the developing literacy response of adolescents through writing by investigating three characteristics: patterns, individual variations, and the effects of genre on response. Subjects, 7 grade nine students from a small private secondary school on the west coast of Canada, were selected for their wide reading experiences. Subjects…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Adolescents, English Instruction, Foreign Countries
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Student Evaluation and Records Branch. – 1992
Samples of student writing from the Alberta (Canada) 9th grade achievement test in writing (administered in June 1990) are presented with evaluative commentaries. They are intended to offer teachers, administrators, and students illustration of the criteria and approach used to score the exam. The exam is one part of a two-part standardized test…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Evaluation Criteria, Foreign Countries, French
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Curriculum Branch. – 1986
These course specifications are based on and are an update of the 1981 Alberta Social Studies Curriculum. They are intended to: (1) identify the core content and objectives for the Grade 9 Social Studies Curriculum; and (2) present the core content and objectives in a form that helps to develop test items. Three major course objectives are…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Guides
Petrie, James – 1988
The paper discusses the Global Awareness Test administered to 6,396 grade 9 students in New Brunswick, Canada at the beginning and end of the 1987 school year. The test was designed to better assess the impact of the grade 9 social studies program and the activities of New Brunswick's Global Education Centre. By comparing the results of the pre-…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geography, Global Approach, Grade 9
Peer reviewedHaimes, David – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 1999
Reports on the strategies adopted by a group of teachers in Ontario, Canada as they implemented de-streaming with grade 9 classes. Indicates that teachers were found to be making special provisions for both low- and high-achieving students and employing a wide range of techniques for assessing student progress. (Contains 20 references.)…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries, Grade 9, Mathematics Instruction
Peer reviewedBarik, Henri C.; Swain, Merrill – Foreign Language Annals, 1976
An evaluation of a bilingual program for native English speakers in Ontario that involves the use of French as the medium of instruction for 70 percent of the curriculum in grade 8 and 40 percent in grade 9. (Author/KM)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, French, Grade 8, Grade 9
Manitoba Dept. of Education, Winnipeg. – 1987
This curriculum guide presents the English Language Arts curriculum for grades 9-12. The guide is based on an interim guide issued in 1983, and incorporates the suggestions of those teachers who field tested the interim guide. The first section, an overview, discusses rationale, goals for the teacher, objectives for the student, program framework,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Foreign Countries, Grade 10, Grade 11
Peer reviewedBennett, Paul W. – History and Social Science Teacher, 1982
Describes a simulation designed by two Canadian teachers to help ninth-grade students learn about Canadian politics and government in both theory and practice. (RM)
Descriptors: Area Studies, Comparative Education, Elections, Government (Administrative Body)
Peer reviewedStewart, Murray – English Quarterly, 1984
Reports on a study designed to reveal differences in quality ratings that teachers in three high school curricular areas--English and social studies, mathematics and science, and business--gave to representative samples of freshman writing in the argument mode. (RBW)
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Grade 9, Grading, Secondary Education
English, Lyn D. – 2001
This paper addresses components of a 3-year longitudinal study in which 9th and 10th grade students in Australia, Canada, and Zambia participated in data-handling programs through networked learning communities. Of interest here are the students' responses to a selection of "ends-in-view" problems, which formed the major part of the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Curriculum Design, Data Analysis, Foreign Countries
