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Cameron, Kathryn – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Most students, be they domestic or international, experience social and psychological concerns when undertaking their post-secondary education. The literature regarding student mental health in Canada has thus far focused primarily on students as a single homogenous group, although there has been recent consideration of discrete populations such…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Psychological Patterns, Social Influences, Cultural Influences
Keefe, Karin; Shi, Ling – TESL Canada Journal, 2017
Many universities have instituted intensive English for Academic Purposes (EAP) programs to support international students. This qualitative study used interviews to gain insights into the experiences of 8 non-native English speaking (NNES) students who completed an EAP program before they enrolled in disciplinary courses at a Canadian university.…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Students
Omar, Faiza; Mahone, James P.; Ngobia, Jane; FitzSimons, John – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2016
Mentoring graduate students is very challenging, even when both the student and faculty have similar cultural values. Many international students have a different culture from that of Canadian. Their challenge is adapting to their new environment, and for their faculty advisors to understand and work well with them. This research explored the…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Graduate Students, Mentors, Interpersonal Relationship
Clara Pracana Ed.; Michael Wang Ed. – Online Submission, 2023
This book contains a compilation of papers presented at the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2023, organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (WIARS), held in International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2023, held in Lisbon, Portugal, from 22 to 24 of April…
Descriptors: Clinical Psychology, Educational Psychology, Social Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
Reed, Maureen J.; Kennett, Deborah J.; Emond, Marc – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2015
Students choose to go to university for many reasons. They include those with disabilities and those without. The reasons why students with disabilities go to university and how these reasons impact university experience, including coping (academic resourcefulness), adapting, academic ability beliefs (academic self-efficacy), and grades, are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Disabilities, College Choice
Sun, Ming – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2014
Little academic attention has been given to the supplementary education experience of immigrant students in the Canadian research literature, especially in a non-English speaking context such as Quebec. Yet these schools are important for understanding the influence of ethnicity as well as religion on the academic preparedness and social…
Descriptors: Asians, Ethnicity, Immigrants, Foreign Countries
Connolly, Jennifer; Josephson, Wendy; Schnoll, Jessica; Simkins-Strong, Emily; Pepler, Debra; MacPherson, Alison; Weiser, Jessica; Moran, Michelle; Jiang, Depeng – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2015
Although youth-led programs (YLP) have been successful in many areas of public health, youth leadership is rarely used in the prevention of peer aggression. A YLP to reduce bullying, sexual harassment, and dating aggression was compared experimentally with the board-mandated usual practice (UP). Four middle schools in an urban Canadian school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Prevention, Bullying, Aggression
Rubin, Mark – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2012
A meta-analysis of 35 studies found that social class (socioeconomic status) is related to social integration among students in higher education: Working-class students are less integrated than middle-class students. This relation generalized across students' gender and year of study, as well as type of social class measure (parental education and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Social Differences, Social Class, Meta Analysis
Brook, Christina A.; Willoughby, Teena – Developmental Psychology, 2016
University/college can be a challenging time as students face developmental tasks such as building new social networks and achieving academically. Social anxiety may be disadvantageous in this setting given that social situations often include drinking and individuals with social anxiety tend to self-medicate through alcohol use. However, findings…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Drinking, At Risk Students, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
McLean, Sarah; Attardi, Stefanie M.; Faden, Lisa; Goldszmidt, Mark – Advances in Physiology Education, 2016
The flipped classroom is a relatively new approach to undergraduate teaching in science. This approach repurposes class time to focus on application and discussion; the acquisition of basic concepts and principles is done on the students' own time before class. While current flipped classroom research has focused on student preferences and…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, College Science, Undergraduate Study, Blended Learning
Galambos, Nancy L.; Howard, Andrea L.; Maggs, Jennifer L. – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2011
Covariations of self-reported sleep quantity (duration) and quality (disturbances) with affective, stressful, academic, and social experiences across the first year of university in 187 Canadian students (M age=18.4) were examined with multilevel models. Female students reported sleeping fewer hours on average than did male students. In months…
Descriptors: Coping, Sleep, Stress Variables, Foreign Countries
Busseri, Michael A.; Rose-Krasnor, Linda; Pancer, S. Mark; Pratt, Michael W.; Adams, Gerald R.; Birnie-Lefcovitch, Shelly; Polivy, Janet; Wintre, Maxine Gallander – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2011
We examined prospective relations between activity involvement and successful transitioning to university. A sample of 656 students from 6 Canadian universities completed questionnaires before beginning university and at the end of their first year. Breadth (number of different activity domains) and intensity (mean frequency) of activity…
Descriptors: Universities, Questionnaires, Adolescents, Longitudinal Studies
Lei, Danni; Woodend, Jon D.; Nutter, Sarah K.; Ryan, Alyssa R.; Cairns, Sharon L. – Journal of International Students, 2015
With the increasing enrollment of international students in North American universities, the need to support the adjustment of international students has also increased. One factor consistently identified as essential to successful student adjustment is having a strong support network, including familial support. Previous research investigating…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Enrollment Trends, Acculturation, Student Adjustment
Tieu, Thanh-Thanh; Pancer, S. Mark; Pratt, Michael W.; Wintre, Maxine Gallander; Birnie-Lefcovitch, Shelly; Polivy, Janet; Adams, Gerald – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2010
This study examined the nature of students' out-of-class involvements with a view to identifying the kinds of involvement that are most conducive to positive adjustment to university. Students from five Canadian universities completed questionnaires in November of their first-year at university assessing the quality of their out-of-class…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Student Adjustment, Foreign Countries, Correlation
Lathrop, Anna H.; O'Connell, Timothy S.; Howard, Ryan A. – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2012
Although outdoor orientation programs, as a special type of orientation designed to enhance student retention, are relatively commonplace in the United States - we are not aware of any such campuswide initiatives in Canada. Research indicates that outdoor orientation programs impact students in a positive way, enhancing academic success, personal…
Descriptors: School Orientation, Outdoor Education, Student Attitudes, College Freshmen