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Beginning College Survey of Student Engagement, 2008
The Beginning College Survey of Student Engagement (BCSSE) was launched in 2007 as a companion survey to the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). In its first two years, close to 140,000 entering first-year students at 197 institutions across the United States and Canada have participated in BCSSE. Now in its third year, BCSSE continues…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, College Freshmen
Pizzuti-Ashby, Jacqueline G.; Alary, Donna G. – Online Submission, 2008
This qualitative study represents perceptions of students regarding campus environment and campus life at University College of the Fraser Valley (UCFV), a public four-year university-college located in British Columbia, Canada. Employing a unique methodology, referred to as reflexive photography, student participants were asked to photograph and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research, Photography, Student Attitudes
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Kitchenham, Andrew – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2008
This paper presents the preliminary findings from the University of Northern British Columbia's e-portfolio project, entitled the Digital Record of Student Success (DRSS). The e-portfolio requires that the Education Program students provide artifacts of their learning related to the British Columbia College of Teachers' 13 standards for…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Portfolios (Background Materials), Electronic Libraries, Teaching Skills
Raby, Rebecca; Domitrek, Julie – Canadian Journal of Education, 2007
Drawing on nine focus groups with secondary students in southern Ontario, we investigated secondary students' perceptions of, and experiences with, school codes of conduct and their application. While generally supporting the "big" rules such as no weapons, students engaged more critically with minor ones. We drew on Foucault's…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Citizenship Education, Focus Groups, Foreign Countries
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Busseri, Michael A.; Rose-Krasnor, Linda – Journal of College Student Development, 2008
We examined subjective experiences in activities and perceptions of growth in a sample of first-year female university students (N = 196; age range = 17 to 19 years old, M = 18.48, SD = 0.53; the most common ethnic affiliations were British Isles, 51% of respondents, Canadian, 34%, French, 14%, and German, 8%). Students described 4 activities,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Personnel Workers, Student Experience, Student Participation
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Chan, Elaine – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2007
This study examines ways in which students' experiences of a culturally-sensitive curriculum may contribute to their developing sense of ethnic identity. It uses a narrative-inquiry approach to explore students' experiences of the interaction of culture and curriculum in a Canadian inner-city, middle-school context. It considers ways in which the…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Foreign Countries, Student Experience, Curriculum Development
National Survey of Student Engagement, 2012
The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) documents dimensions of quality in undergraduate education and provides information and assistance to colleges, universities, and other organizations to improve student learning. Its primary activity is annually surveying college students to assess the extent to which they engage in educational…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Student Surveys, Undergraduate Students, Learner Engagement
Wong-Wylie, Gina – Canadian Journal of Counselling, 2007
This qualitative study involved five doctoral counselling students from a major Canadian university who shared critical incidents of barriers and facilitators of reflective practice in their graduate experiences. Sixteen incidents engendered reflection while eight hindered open reflection. Conditions found to facilitate reflective practice…
Descriptors: Critical Incidents Method, Graduate Students, Doctoral Programs, Counselor Training
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Xu, Shijing; Connelly, F. Michael; He, Ming Fang; Phillion, JoAnn – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2007
We explore immigrant students' experience of schooling focusing on Yang Yang and his family. We present insights into immigrant Chinese educational experience in Canada and bring forward a narrative-inquiry framework for the study of student experience. We find that--contrary to some of the expectations of Chinese immigrants--family relations,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Experience, Educational Experience, Immigrants
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Lacasse, Anne; Mendelson, Morton J. – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2006
Individual differences may partly explain how students react to potentially offensive sexual behaviors from peers. This study focused on situational and personal characteristics that may make such behaviors more or less upsetting. Six hundred and thirty two Quebecois high-school students in Grades 8-11 completed questionnaires regarding their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Individual Differences, Questionnaires
Murray, Jacqueline; Summerlee, Alastair – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2007
Canadian universities are struggling to address seemingly contradictory challenges pertaining to undergraduate education: high demand and underfunding. A number of instruments, including the National Survey of Student Engagement (National Survey of Student Engagement, n.d.), have led to greater priority being placed on the undergraduate…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
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Andres, Lesley – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2001
Interviewed Canadian university students who had transferred from a community college. Found that while most support transfer as a viable and even preferable route to a university degree, problems occur at each of the stages of transfer. Obstacles include difficulty obtaining useful information, problems understanding transfer policies and…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes
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Scherr, Tracey G. – School Psychology International, 2007
The educational achievements of children in foster care have been determined to be below average in individual studies. In the present investigation, 31 studies were examined via four meta-analyses to answer questions regarding the educational status of children in out-of-home placements in multiple countries. Data analysis encompassed the…
Descriptors: Foster Care, Student Experience, Meta Analysis, School Holding Power
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Cameron, Cherylyn – Community College Review, 2005
Community college students who transfer to universities face innumerable challenges. While documented in the American literature on transfer, there has been relatively little published research on transfer in Canada. This paper explores the experience of nursing students transferring from three community colleges to a large urban university in…
Descriptors: Nursing Students, Transfer Students, Student Experience, Community Colleges
British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer, 2006
This report presents the results of an analysis of admissions and transfer data from the 2005 British Columbia (BC) College and Institute Student Outcomes Survey. A number of issues related to the admissions and transfer experiences of former students from BC's college, university college, and institute sector are addressed from the student…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, College Admission, Student Experience, Access to Education
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