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Within health care, there are underserved groups. New Brunswick's French-speaking minority, which also mostly lives in rural communities, is one such group. A physician shortage potentially prevents this population from accessing health promotion and clinical prevention services. This study analyzes whether New Brunswick Francophone doctors with ru...
Efforts to increase physical activity in youth need to consider which activities are most likely to be sustained over time in order to promote lifelong participation in physical activity. The Monitoring Activities of Teenagers to Comprehend their Habits (MATCH) study is a prospective cohort study that uses quantitative and qualitative methods to de...
Better knowledge on why some individuals succeed in maintaining participation in physical activity throughout adolescence is needed to guide the development of effective interventions to increase and then maintain physical activity levels. Despite allowing an in-depth understanding, qualitative designs have infrequently been used to study physical...
A two-year study on the use of laptop computers by New Brunswick (Canada) grade 7–8 francophone students aimed to better understand the impact of laptops on learning. Two problem-based learning (PBL) interdisciplinary scenarios (math, science, language arts) were implemented in eight experimental classes to measure students’ learning process, parti...
La recherche menee par les auteures en 2008 avait pour objet d’accroitre les connaissances sur le vecu personnel, conjugal et familial des jeunes femmes francophones qui ont ete atteintes du cancer du sein au Nouveau-Brunswick et qui y ont survecu. Pour ce faire, quinze femmes francophones de la province ont accepte de participer a une entrevue sem...
15 Éducation francophone en milieu minoritaire L'apprentissage de l'écriture avec l'accès direct à l'ordinateur portatif chez les élèves francophones de 7 e et 8 e année au Nouveau-Brunswick Résumé Cet article présente une partie des résultats d'une recherche menée dans trois écoles francophones du Nouveau-Brunswick qui ont participé au projet « Ac...
Our paper presents partial results of a two year study of laptop use by New Brunswick (Canada) 7-8 grade francophone schoolchildren and its impact on mathematics teaching and learning. This study has been conducted within New Brunswick's Notebook Computer Project which provided 7-8 grade students of six public schools with individual laptop compute...
This paper describes the process used by a research team to develop a coding system for analyzing data from interview transcripts and situates the process within approaches to qualitative analysis. Successive versions of the coding scheme illustrate its development over several years; the role of team members and verification in this evolution are...
In this paper, we focus on monitoring, a particular aspect of reflection related to teaching. We define monitoring as a feedback mechanism which entails attending to and evaluating a multitude of cues in the environment in order to evaluate progress towards a goal. We direct our attention to monitoring because it is a way in which a teacher is able...
An increased value is being placed on quality teaching in higher education. An important step in developing approaches to better instruction is understanding how those who are successful go about improving their teaching. Thus, several years ago we undertook a program of research in which the concept of reflection provided the frame of reference. W...
As a practicing dietitian, I am reminded by the dietetics and education literatures of just how important it is for me, and for the profession, to develop skills to continue to learn and improve practice. Although reflection is an integral step of professional development strategies in dietetics, little is known about it in our context. The study's...
