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Michael Waldeck – ProQuest LLC, 2024
To ensure the successful academic progress and enjoyment of postsecondary education students, it is crucial for both instructors and students to make every effort to eliminate or reduce boredom and complacency in the classroom. This factor is particularly important, given the numerous challenges that students currently face, which can hinder their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, North Americans, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes
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McCabe, Julie; Dupéré, Véronique; Dion, Eric; Thouin, Éliane; Archambault, Isabelle; Dufour, Sarah; Denault, Anne-Sophie; Leventhal, Tama; Crosnoe, Robert – Applied Developmental Science, 2020
This study describes policies and practices implemented in 12 high schools (Quebec, Canada) that more or less effectively leveraged extracurricular activities (ECA) to prevent dropout among vulnerable students. Following an explanatory sequential mixed design, three school profiles ("Effective," "Ineffective," and…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, Dropout Prevention, Outcomes of Education, High School Students
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MacDonnell, Maggie – LEARNing Landscapes, 2017
In this interview, Maggie MacDonnell, recipient of the 2017 Global Teacher Prize, discusses how growing up near a First Nations reserve in Nova Scotia opened her eyes to inequalities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Canada. She talks about the influence of Moses Coady, who instilled in her an appreciation for co-operative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Canada Natives, American Indian Students, Well Being
Rebeiz, André – EdCan Network, 2018
This case study report provides practical examples on how the Academy of Indigenous Studies has built lasting relationships with local First Nations communities -- demonstrating how existing provincial course offerings can be leveraged to create a for-credit learning track that allows Indigenous and non-Indigenous students to learn about…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Canada Natives, Academic Achievement
Rebeiz, André – EdCan Network, 2018
This case study report calls on school-community leaders to consider a made-in-Canada approach that raises literacy rates, prevents early school leaving and breathes life back into small towns. This step-by-step guidebook provides a practical toolkit and worksheets based on the concrete experiences of the "L'ÉcoRéussite" program, which…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Dropout Prevention, Literacy, School Holding Power
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Wallis, Julie A. M.; Riddell, Julia K.; Pepler, Debra J.; Smith, Claire; Silvertown, Josh – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2015
In this study, we describe participant characteristics, conversation content, and program success of an online mentoring program for northern Canadian youth. We investigate the associations between demographics and program success. The profiles and conversations of students and mentors that participated in the program between 2009 and 2013 were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mentors, Participant Characteristics, Computer Mediated Communication
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Nadirova, Anna; Burger, John Michael – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2014
This study contributes to applied and theoretical research for schools and districts by helping inform programs and policies directed at school improvement, raising student achievement, and high school completion. The paper features recent results of ongoing research on student orientation to school that was assessed via a multidimensional Student…
Descriptors: Low Achievement, Dropout Prevention, School Orientation, Multidimensional Scaling
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Chou, Fred; Kwee, Janelle; Lees, Robert; Firth, Kara; Florence, Jordan; Harms, Jake; Raber, Mya; Stevens, Taylor; Tatomir, Richard; Weaver, Chereca; Wilson, Scott – Educational Action Research, 2015
This Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) study represents a collaboration with six students from alternative education to inquire about the experiences of vulnerable youth--students in alternative education and youth who have dropped out of school. Utilizing the Enhanced Critical Incident Technique, youth researchers asked their peers what…
Descriptors: High School Students, Graduation Rate, Action Research, Participatory Research
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Boton, Eliani Colferai; Gregory, Sue – Journal of Educators Online, 2015
The number of online programs in the higher education sector has increased dramatically in the last decade, and with it, an increase in attrition has become a recurring problem worldwide. Literature suggests that elements of culture, motivation, learning management systems and online pedagogy play a major role in attrition rates in the higher…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Dropout Prevention, Student Attrition
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Shields, Carmen; Wideman, Ron – Values and Ethics in Educational Administration, 2012
In 2003, the Ontario Government undertook a comprehensive multi-year Student Success Strategy to keep more young people learning to age 18 or graduation. This followed the release of a Ministry commissioned research report showing that Ontario's graduation rates lagged behind other provinces in Canada, and that up to 30% of students did not…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, At Risk Students, Secondary School Students
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Larose, Simon; Cyrenne, Diane; Garceau, Odette; Harvey, Marylou; Guay, Frederic; Godin, Fanny; Tarabulsy, George M; Deschenes, Claire – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2011
In this study, we examined the impact of a new academic mentoring program aimed at preventing student dropout in math, science and technology. The MIRES program entails bimonthly meetings between students entering college and university students completing their undergraduate degree in science and engineering. A randomized pretest-posttest control…
Descriptors: Mentors, Dropout Prevention, Dropouts, Academic Persistence
Canadian Council on Learning, 2009
Despite recent declines in high school dropout rates, thousands of young Canadians continue to leave high school every year without a diploma. Currently, approximately 20% of Canadians aged 20 years and over have never completed high school. Most Canadians recognize the link between educational attainment and quality of life, and know that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High Schools, Dropout Rate, Dropouts
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Gunn, Thelma M.; Chorney, David W.; Poulsen, John C. – Journal of At-Risk Issues, 2009
Since 1999, the Alberta Initiative for School Improvement (AISI) has provided funding to provincial school authorities for projects designed to improve student learning and performance. Conducted in three-year cycles, this unique approach has successfully helped to initiate approximately 1,600 grassroots projects led by school districts, teachers,…
Descriptors: High Schools, At Risk Students, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
McVicar, John – B. C. Journal of Special Education, 1990
The article reviews efforts of the Campbell River, British Columbia, school district to integrate behavior-disordered secondary students into regular school programs served under the Rehabilitation Resource program. (DB)
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Dropout Prevention, Foreign Countries, Intervention
Pauker, Jerome D.; And Others – 1988
This composition of related attendance studies of both Canada and the United States includes (1) a review of school attendance/nonattendance literature for 1975-86, the results, and a discussion involving the topics of nonattendance correlations, causes, and intervention; (2) a survey of compulsory school attendance legislation, the results, and a…
Descriptors: Attendance, Attendance Patterns, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention
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