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Direct linkCui, Ying; Mousavi, Amin – International Journal of Testing, 2015
The current study applied the person-fit statistic, l[subscript z], to data from a Canadian provincial achievement test to explore the usefulness of conducting person-fit analysis on large-scale assessments. Item parameter estimates were compared before and after the misfitting student responses, as identified by l[subscript z], were removed. The…
Descriptors: Measurement, Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis, Test Items
Brown, Hilary K.; Ouellette-Kuntz, Helene; Lysaght, Rosemary; Burge, Philip – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2011
Background: The objectives of this study were: (i) to compare the behavioural intentions of high school students towards individuals with intellectual disabilities and individuals with physical disabilities and (ii) to explore reasons for these behavioural intentions. Materials and methods: A sample of 319 Grade 9 and Grade 12 students in Ontario,…
Descriptors: Physical Disabilities, Mental Retardation, Foreign Countries, Grade 9
Pasquarella, Adrian; Gottardo, Alexandra; Grant, Amy – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2012
This study examined factors related to reading comprehension in adolescents who spoke English as a first language (L1) and English as a second language (L2). Measures of decoding, vocabulary knowledge, and reading comprehension were administered to 31 L1 and 44 L2 speakers. English L2 adolescents scored significantly lower than their L1 peers on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Reading Comprehension, English
Peters, Ray DeV.; Bradshaw, Alison J.; Petrunka, Kelly; Nelson, Geoffrey; Herry, Yves; Craig, Wendy M.; Arnold, Robert; Parker, Kevin C. H.; Khan, Shahriar R.; Hoch, Jeffrey S.; Pancer, S. Mark; Loomis, Colleen; Belanger, Jean-Marc; Evers, Susan; Maltais, Claire; Thompson, Katherine; Rossiter, Melissa D. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 2010
Although comprehensive and ecological approaches to early childhood prevention are commonly advocated, there are few examples of long-term follow-up of such programs. In this monograph, we investigate the medium- and long-term effects of an ecological, community-based prevention project for primary school children and families living in three…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Quasiexperimental Design, Prevention, Economically Disadvantaged
Good, Marie; Willoughby, Teena; Fritjers, Jan – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2009
This study used hierarchical linear modeling to compare longitudinal patterns of adolescent religious service attendance and club attendance, and to contrast the longitudinal relations between adolescent adjustment and religious service versus club attendance. Participants included 1050 students (47% girls) encompassing a school district in…
Descriptors: Clubs, Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Grade 11
Wright, Robin; John, Lindsay; Livingstone, Anne-Marie; Shepherd, Nicole; Duku, Eric – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2007
This article describes the methodology and program effects of a multicomponent model of interventions designed to prevent antisocial behaviour in secondary school students. Interventions included cooperative learning, classroom management, and peer tutoring, mentoring, and mediation. Data from the Secondary Schools Demonstration Project (SSDP)…
Descriptors: Peer Mediation, Classroom Techniques, Demonstration Programs, Cooperative Learning
Mady, Callie – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquee, 2007
Recently arrived English as a second language (ESL) students were compared to their unilingual and multilingual Canadian-born peers on measures of French proficiency. All of the participants were enrolled in secondary core French (CF)--the ESL students were studying introductory French, whereas the Canadian-born students were in Grade 9 CF, their…
Descriptors: Verbal Communication, Speech Communication, Listening Comprehension Tests, Multilingualism
Peer reviewedRoss, John A.; Hogaboam-Gray, Anne – International Journal of Science Education, 1998
Compares a school that integrated mathematics, science, and technology in grade nine to a school in the same district that taught the same courses separately. Discusses the benefits of an integrated-learning setting for the students. Contains 31 references. (DDR)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Innovation, Foreign Countries, Grade 9
Gray, Vicky A. – 1985
The academic achievement in French of two cohorts of grade 9 students of a public school early immersion program in New Brunswick, which has total French-language instruction through grade 4 and includes all students in the program except transfers was compared to that of a group of native French-speaking students at a nearby French-language…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Students, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries
Morrison, Frances; Pawley, Catherine – 1984
A study of the differences in achievement among Ottawa's grade 9 and 10 students taught in English and French in three subject areas (mathematics, geography, and history) in which suitable comparative measures were available had as subjects the students in 73 classes. The students in French-language classes were administered the test twice, once…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Ability, Comparative Analysis, English
Wright, Robin; Offord, David; John, Lindsay; Duku, Eric; DeWit, David – Exceptionality Education Canada, 2005
This article describes the methodology and program effects of the Secondary Schools Demonstration Project (SSDP) conducted in four Ontario schools. The objective of the study was to evaluate the extent to which a universal program model of three interventions--cooperative learning; classroom management; and peer-helping approaches that included…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 9, Demonstration Programs, Secondary School Students
Download full textSclater, Jennifer; Sicoly, Fiore; Abrami, Philip C.; Wade, C. Anne – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2006
The current investigation was an exploration of the first year of a multi-year project designed to provide every Grade 3 to Grade 11 student throughout an English school board in Quebec with a laptop computer. Data were collected from 403 elementary and 270 secondary students from the experimental school board and also from 330 students in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Laptop Computers, Access to Computers, Computer Uses in Education
