THESES     

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AUTHOR
TITLE
YEAR
INSTITUTION
 
David Alan Packer
 Literacy and adult basic education in Ontario and New Zealand: a comparative study of policies and practices.
1989
 Queen's University
Louis A. Pagliaro
 CAI in pharmacology: student academic performance and instructional interactions.
1981
 University of Alberta
Bernard Randall Palef
 A comparison of differences and/or similarities between contract and permanent employees in the workplace.
2000
 University of Toronto
Alejandro Palacios
  Non-formal education and development: a critical socio-historical analysis of B.C. First Nations agricultural extension.
1996
 University of British Columbia
Julia Nai-Rong Pan
 Adult education and the current modernization movement in China, 1978-1986.
1989
 University of Alberta
Stella M. Pankratz
 *The effect of an evaluation procedure on a student nurse's self perceptions.
1972
 University of Saskatchewan
Busaba Paratacharya
 The Nechi Institute on alcohol and drug education: illustrating the use of a bi-cultural training model and its effect on the cultural, personal and professional development of the native trainees.
1994
 Trent University
Robert Paré
 La géographie dans l'éducation des adultes au Québec.
1980
 Université Laval
Ronald E. Parducci
 *Psychosocial stressors affecting the aged's phenomenological self as studied through the self-report relative of learning.
1978
 University of Toronto
Elizabeth Parker
 Toward an understanding of the experience of members of a self-help group.
1991
 University of Toronto
George Lawrence Parker
 *A history of a Canadian publishing house: a study of the relation between publishing and the profession of writing, 1890-1940.
1969
 University of Toronto
Joanie Alana Parker
 Dialogue journal writing and adult ESL students: a tool for learning language and culture.
1999
 University of Alberta
Robert David Eugene Parker
 Credentialism, and vocational expectation in a community college.
1993
 University of Toronto
Shirley Ethel Parliament
 An investigation into the predictive factors determining success of mature students in diploma nursing schools.
1984
 Dalhousie University
MarDell C. Parrish
 An analysis of concepts of marginality in adult education.
1986
 University of British Columbia
Linda Ann Parsons
 Facilitating critical thinking and reflection in distance education: a case study.
2000
 St. Francis Xavier University
Treena A. Parsons
 Retaining international students: identifying the needs of international students attending Memorial University of Newfoundland.
2000
 Memorial University
Margo L. Paterson
 The impact of fieldwork experience of undergraduate occupational therapy students upon time utilization of their clinical supervisors.
1994
 Queen's University
Cari Michelle Patterson
 Thesis-making: reflections on my experience.
1993
 Wilfrid Laurier University
Joan Patrick
 Perceptions of Alberta postsecondary consortium goals.
1988
 University of Alberta
Shirley Jean Patz
 Incentives and hindrances in continuing education for nurses.
1982
 Simon Fraser University
John Paul
 *The relation between employment status and self-concept in later maturity.
1957
 University of Toronto
Louise Paulauskas
 Assessing student satisfaction and need levels: a study of Concordia University's undergraduate student population.
2002
 Concordia University
Stephanie Paulauskas
 The effects of strategy training on the aural comprehension of L2 adult learners at the high beginning/low intermediate proficiency level.
1994
 University of Toronto
Martha Pauls
 A description and analysis of stress experiences among first year student nurses.
1991
 University of Regina
Steve Pawlak
 Variables associated with student attrition at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology.
1973
 University of Calgary
Debbie Louise Payne
 Creating community through collaboration and technology: a study of the collaborative process created to produce a provincial curriculum guide for the education of certified dental assisstants in British Columbia.
2000
 Royal Roads University
Martha L. Peach
 *Freire's process of conscientization and an analysis of community health care attitude survey.
1975
 University of Toronto
Gregory D. Pearce
 Student perspectives on the nature of pre-university career support: an urban/rural comparison.
1998
 Memorial University
Sandra Pearce
 *Citizen participation in the community college.
1972
 University of Alberta
Sandra D. Pearce
 Deans of continuing education in western Canada: leadership for organizational survival.
1991
 Pennsylvania State University
V. Lynne Pearson
 *Integration or segregation of social services for public housing tentants.
1971
 University of Alberta
Frank Wayne Peers
 *The politics of Canadian broadcasting: 1920-1939.
1966
 University of Toronto
Bonny Norton Peirce
 Language learning, social identity, and immigrant women.
1993
 University of Toronto
Sarah T. Pelletier
 Goal orientation: delineating prerequisites for sustained achievement motivation within an attributional retraining context.
1998
 University of Manitoba
Ellen Pelto
 An evaluation framework for distance education.
1990
 University of Victoria
Linda Anne Penoyer
 *A preliminary framework for the evaluation of community development programs.
1979
 University of Alberta
Elizabeth F. Pepper
 *A case study of citizen participation: the involvement of adult educators with provincial governments in developing a community college system for Saskatchewan.
1973
 University of Saskatchewan
Ralph Norman Percey
 Spreadsheet activities for a data management unit: a teachers' resource using Microsoft Excel.
2000
 Memorial University
Geraldine Anne Percival
 Developing effective practice in continuing education: an orientation manual for new university continuing education practitioners.
1993
 Columbia University Teachers College
S. Percival
 *Teacher preparation for overseas work: a case study.
1977
 University of Guelph
James GiuseppePerretta,
 Mental disorders in older adults: the beliefs, attitudes, and treatment intentions of medical students at two Ontario schools.
1999
 Queen's University
Linda A. Perry
 An evaluation of a prison education program.
1982
 University of Manitoba
Lucille C. Peszat
 *The development of health sciences education programs in metropolitan Toronto region colleges of applied arts and technology, 1967-1977: a study of selected factors influencing this development.
1979
 University of Toronto
Maureen Joan Peszat
 The influence of locus of control on the problem-solving abilities of student nurses.
1988
 University of Calgary
Bevis Peters
 *Community development in small rural communities - the role of public libraries.
1973
 University of Alberta
Gary D. Peters
 *A study of career choice in male undergraduate university students.
1973
 University of Guelph
Jacqueline Rose Peters
 Curricular and teaching changes in universities.
1996
 University of Alberta
Kenneth Paul Peterson
 *The influence of evaluative conditions and pre-conference contact on participants' evaluation of a conference.
1971
 University of British Columbia
Robert Peterson
 *A study of the community colleges and their relevance to the needs of the Ontario Department of Health.
1971
 University of Toronto
Melody Petlock
 Severe disability, inclusion and adult learning in anglo-New Brunswick, 1848-2000.
2000
 Mount Saint Vincent University
Valerie Petrie
 A Ways-of-Giving Model for agents of change.
2001
 St. Francis Xavier University
Dale R. Petruka
 The implementation of transition planning and service coordination for special education students leaving high school in Ontario.
2001
 University of Ottawa
Beverley Anne Pettigrew
 *Intrusion or innovation? Volunteers attempting social change in an educational system.
1976
 University of Saskatchewan
Joanne C. Pettis
 Manitoba adult ESL teachers' perceptions of the relationship between their TESL education and their teaching assignments
1998
 University of Manitoba
Lucille C. Peszat
 The development of health sciences education programs in Metropolitan Toronto region colleges of applied arts and technology, 1976-77: a study of selected factors influencing this development.
1979
 University of Toronto
Larry John Phillips
 A study of the student retention effort in the New Brunswick community college system.
1989
 University of New Brunswick
Merrie Diane Phillips
 The curriculum consultant as proactive staff developer.
1996
 University of Manitoba
Natalie Anne Phillips
 Neurophysiological correlates of encoding into episodic memory in young and old adults.
1990
 Dalhousie University
Susan Phillips
 *The management of adult learners in a distance-delivered course.
1979
 University of Alberta
Laurie Craig Phipps
 Reports from the trenches: the students' view of information and communication technology at Camosun College (British Columbia).
2003
 Royal Roads University
Lynette Pickard
 *The impact of a preventive health care program for older people on health status, knowledge and costs.
1979
 University of British Columbia
Sherry Mae Pictou
 The life learning experiences and personal transformations of Mi'kmaq women.
1996
 Dalhousie University
Michelle Pidgeon
 Looking forward: a national perspective on aboriginal student services in Canadian universities.
2001
 Memorial University
Wanda Jane Pierson
 Student perspectives on learning about caring during a clinical nursing practice experience.
1995
 Simon Fraser University
Wanda J. Pierson
 Reflections on the process of learning the work of nurses during practice experiences.
2003
 Simon Fraser University
Louis Pike
 The multidisciplinary team as an example of shifting paradigms.
1991
 University of Toronto
Mary F. Pike
 The role of adult education in cross-cultural training programs: towards a model program.
2000
 St. Francis Xavier University
Pamela Dawn Pike
 Leisure piano lessons: a case study of lifelong learning.
2001
 University of Oklahoma
Joost J. J. Pikkert
 A case study approach to adult learners and philosophies of education.
1990
 University of Nebraska
Brigitte Pinard
 A case study on the agricultural knowledge and information system of region 4 of Quebec: shedding light on institutional changes supporting sustainable agriculture.
1996
 University of Guelph
Benjamin Leung Kai Ping
  Who protests: a developmental profile of the student activist
1982
 York University
Allan Michael Pinkus
 Conscientization: an educational model for integrative social work practice : learners not consumers : making literate experiences that are lived and felt.
1994
 York University
Laura Elizabeth Pinto
 Marketing acceptance levels and practices of Ontario school board continuing education institutions.
1998
 University of Windsor
Ann Pirolli
 The relationship between metamemory and memory through adulthood
1990
 Carleton University
Alice Pitt
 Subjects in tension: engaged resistance in the feminist classroom.
1995
 University of Toronto
Heather MacQueen Pittas
 Training for what: an educational response to the adult unemployed in a post-industrial society.
1994
 Dalhousie University
Janet Pivnick
 Against the current: ecological education in a modern world.
2001
 University of Calgary
D. J. Pletsch
 *Ecumenicism in two Protestant churches in Ontario.
1966
 University of Guelph
Lynette Plett
 How the vote was won: adult education and the Manitoba woman suffrage movement, 1912-1916.
2000
 University of Manitoba
Yongyudh Plianpadung
 *Early academic and social adjustment of graduate students from Asian countries at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon campus.
1973
 University of Saskatchewan
Donovan T. Plumb
 Critical adult education in postmodern times.
1994
 University of Alberta
Michelle Poechman Fisher
 Planting the seeds of hope: research and action on body image of university students.
1994
 Wilfrid Laurier University
Shoshana Pollack
 Opening the window on a very dark day: a program evaluation of the Peer Support Team at the Kingston Prison for Women.
1993
 Carleton University
Stephen Edward Polsky
  Student evaluation of college instructors: preferred teacher roles and student personality types.
1977
 University of California, Berkeley
Uriah Pond
 Developing and using an elemental learning cycle in a corporate training setting.
2000
 St. Francis Xavier University
Arlene I. Ponting
 Assessment of learning achievement and practice outcomes: impact of a problem-based learning course in continuing pharmacy education.
1995
 University of Alberta
Connie Sau-kwan Poon
 Seeing leads to knowing: mentalistic bias in choice and probability judgment under uncertainty.
1997
 Queen's University
Wendy Porteous
 Characteristics of adult basic education participants and programs.
1993
 Queen's University
Elaine Posluns
 The change process of women becoming liberated from sex-role stereotypes.
1981
 University of Toronto
Patricia Ann Post
 Scared witless: adult women students' apprehension of humour.
1996
 University of New Brunswick
Robert Lee Postlethwaite
 Giving primacy to the sacred: some implications for teaching.
2003
 University of Toronto
Gorton Ross Potts
 *Ghanian farmers' perceptions of the attributes of animal power.
1978
 University of Guelph
Linda Marilyn Potts
 Alberta drama education origins: the contributions of the Department of Extension, University of Alberta, in the field of drama education from 1912-1962.
1982
 University of Calgary
Lucien Mark Poudrier
 *Impaired drivers: an educational alternative to incarceration.
1978
 University of Toronto
René A. Pouliot
 Développement d'un modèle de partenariat pour l'éducation de base des adultes en Estrie.
1996
 Université de Sherbrooke
Michael B. Powell
 *The modification of the Stott Social Adjustment Guide for residential child care.
1972
 University of Toronto
Wayne G. Powell
 Iterative application of case-study analysis to the design of a Web-based geoscience lab.
2001
 University of Calgary
Mary Ellison Hay Preece
 Case studies to understand the motivation and experiences of community college professors engaged in a faculty development project.
1995
 University of Toronto
Archibald S. Prescod
 Integration and student retention: an analysis of differences between persisters and leavers from an integrated business administration college program.
1989
 University of Manitoba
Nancy Price
 An investigation of the relationships between learning context, student approach to learning and student learning outcomes in distance education.
1998
 McGill University
John Elswood Privett
 The use of metaphor in Christian religious education.
1990
 University of Alberta
Leonard F. Proctor
 *Transfer of learning in the teaching of differential diagnostic pathology.
1975
 University of Saskatchewan
Ron Proud
 An investigation into selected factors influencing the feedback preferences of university-level ESL students on compositions.
2000
 Concordia University
Peter F. Prout
 General and specific environmental conditions in relation to community education developments in Canada's provinces and territories.
1977
 University of Alberta
Deborah J. Provencher
 Exploring best facilitation strategies to encourage the transfer of learning within a health-care environment.
2000
 St. Francis Xavier University
Nicholas A. Prychodko
 *Socialist construction and the role of education in the Republic of China.
1979
 University of Toronto
Peter Prystupa
 *How teachers resolve their job related learning needs: towards a phenomenological model.
1980
 University of Manitoba
Mei Violet Pui
 A survey to examine Alberta occupational therapists' perceptions of Internet-based continuing education.
2002
 University of Alberta
Micki A. Puksa
 Nursing students' perceptions of teachers' collaborative teaching style and self-efficacy for collaborative learning.
2000
 University of Western Ontario
Maria Cristina Pulido
 L'éducation de la foi des adultes dans une société socialiste: l'exemple de Cuba.
1998
 Université Laval
Douglas Robert Pullman
 *A study of social organization in relation to economic change.
1960
 University of Toronto
K.F. Punch
 *Bureaucratic structure in schools and its relationship to leader behaviour: an empirical study.
1967
 University of Toronto
Dennis B. Punter
 Preparing laity in smaller churches for service in their church.
1996
 Canadian Theological Seminary
Jean Elaine Fuller Purdon
 *Language as a problem in services to non-English speaking immigrants.
1967
 University of Toronto
James M. Purvis
 *A study of maple syrup production in Ontario.
1967
 University of Guelph
Anak Agung Made Sastrawan Putra
 Student persistence at and drop-out from Universitas Terbuka (the Open University of Indonesia).
1993
 University of Victoria
Elizabeth Anne Pybus
 An exploratory study of academic high-risk college students.
1991
 University of Calgary
Timothy Pyrch
 An examination of the concept of community development as discerned through selected literature in the adult education movement in Canada and the United States, 1919-1960.
1982
 University of British Columbia

 

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