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Crooks, Claire V.; Hoover, Sharon; Smith, Alexandra C. G. – Psychology in the Schools, 2020
There are thousands of refugee students in Canadian schools and many struggle with distress and trauma symptoms. Even those not demonstrating overt distress may face adjustment challenges. This paper describes the pilot of the Supporting Transition Resilience of Newcomer Groups (STRONG) program in ten schools. STRONG is a 10-session, manualized…
Descriptors: Intervention, Resilience (Psychology), Foreign Countries, Refugees
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Kristine Arreola; Seonghwa Cho; Celina Phan; Karen Unger; Wen-Pin Chang; Shu-Ping Chen – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2024
This study explores the mental health perceptions, expectations for mental healthcare, and use of existing mental health services among international engineering students at a Western Canadian university. Employing a phenomenological qualitative approach, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 18 international undergraduate engineering…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mental Health, Expectation, Health Services
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Goegan, Lauren D.; Le, Lily; Daniels, Lia M. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2023
Most of what researchers know about the challenges students with learning disabilities (LDs) experience during postsecondary education is based on experiences during face-to-face learning on campus. Less is known about challenges students with LD face during learning online--the mode of instruction students had to navigate during the COVID-19…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Learning Disabilities, Students with Disabilities, COVID-19
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Kayla LaRosa; Julia A. Ogg; Robert Dedrick; Shannon Suldo; Maria Rogers; Riley Laffoon; Courtney Weaver – School Psychology Review, 2025
Although more is known about how general parenting practices predict social-emotional strengths in children, less research has looked at parent involvement in education and children's social-emotional strengths. This study examined the extent to which parent involvement, specifically home-based involvement, parent-teacher trust, and home-school…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Parent Child Relationship, Social Emotional Learning, Predictor Variables
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Qiong Bai; Benjamin H. Nam; Alexander Scott English – Educational Review, 2024
This cross-cultural ethnography explored the global student mobility patterns of international students from English-speaking countries in China and asked research questions about (a) their motivational factors and acculturation expectations before arrival; (b) linguistic factors influencing their acculturative stressors in the host group…
Descriptors: Acculturation, English, Native Language, Language Attitudes
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Semplonius, Thalia; Willoughby, Teena – Journal of American College Health, 2019
Objective: Our objective was to examine the co-occurrence of sleep problems and emotion dysregulation and its short- and long-term links to depressive symptoms and alcohol use in a sample of university students. Method: Participants included 1132 first-year university students from Southern Ontario (70.5% women). Time 1 data were collected in…
Descriptors: Sleep, Emotional Problems, Depression (Psychology), Drinking
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Mao, Jing – BC TEAL Journal, 2021
Amidst the increased enrolment of international Chinese English as an additional language (EAL) students in North American universities, scholars have reported on their academic and social experiences in navigating English-medium studies (e.g., Liu, 2016; Zhang & Zhou, 2010). Although informative, some studies focus on EAL learners' perceived…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Resilience (Psychology), College Freshmen, Foreign Students
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Stone, David C. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2021
The 100th anniversary of the first article (published in 1921) examining student success and the high school to university transition in chemistry provides an excellent opportunity to consider what has -- and has not -- changed in chemistry education. This review details the development and findings of chemistry education research specifically as…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Student Adjustment, College Students, Chemistry
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Mullins, Laura E.; Mitchell, Jennifer – International Journal of Higher Education, 2022
Following the World Health Organization's announcement of the global pandemic because of the Coronavirus Disease 2019, most Canadian universities transitioned to offering their courses exclusively online. One group affected by this transition was students with disabilities. Previous research has shown that the university experience for students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Students with Disabilities
Fu, Angela – ProQuest LLC, 2022
There is a lack of literature examining the lived experience of Chinese international students. Literature often groups international students or Asian international students into a homogenous category despite their unique differences. The present study utilized a semi-structured interview conducted in Mandarin to explore the lived experiences of…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Coping, Student Attitudes, Student Adjustment
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Beaulieu, Catherine; Larose, Simon; Heilporn, Géraldine; Bureau, Julien S.; Cellard, Caroline; Janosz, Michel; Châteauvert, Geneviève Boisclair – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 2022
The rise in numbers of postsecondary students who require adapted services underscores the need for inclusive teaching practices to help students with disabilities adjust and succeed. Despite the growth in studies on this topic, quantitative data are lacking on the prevalence of these practices in high school and college, and their predictive…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Inclusion, Students with Disabilities, College Students
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Howe, Edward R.; Ramirez, Gloria; Walton, Patrick – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2023
Universities in Canada are increasingly attracting international students, but few studies have examined their academic and social experiences. This research identified the key supports and barriers for international students in order to make policy-relevant recommendations. This convergent mixed-methods study combined survey (n = 104) and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Foreign Students, Study Abroad
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Mettler, Jessica; Carsley, Dana; Joly, Mélanie; Heath, Nancy L. – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2019
The transition to university is a stressful period for young adults; however, there has been limited research examining the predictive role of dispositional mindfulness in supporting first-year students' adjustment to university. The current study sought to examine the relative contribution of gender, self-efficacy, perceived social support from…
Descriptors: Student Adjustment, College Freshmen, Personality, Metacognition
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Maymon, Rebecca; Hall, Nathan C.; Harley, Jason M. – Student Success, 2019
The present exploratory study evaluated perceptions of actual support received in relation to stress and well-being among first-year students attending Canadian and U.S. higher education institutions (N = 126). Given that traditional assessments of received support account only for how often support was received, the present research examined…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Stress Variables, Well Being
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Deng, Fei; Peng, Jian-E – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2023
This study explores changes in willingness to communicate in a second language (L2 WTC) inside multilingual classrooms among short-term exchange students. Data were collected from eight Chinese exchange students studying in three universities in Canada and two instructors teaching in one of these universities through in-depth interviews.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Multilingualism, Classroom Communication, Student Participation
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