NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Crowell, James W.
Licensed Year(s): 1997 1996
Summary: Study continued from 1996. School Principals will be contacted during the 1996/97 school year to collect data on the number of students involved in home schooling in each community. In the towns of Fort Smith, Hay River, and Yellowknife, parents of home schooling children will be contacted through principals to participate in tape recorded interviews. Data collection will be limited to mail, ph...

Principal Investigator: Hogan, Bernard
Licensed Year(s): 1997
Summary: This study will involve using survey questionnaires to gather data on student usage of the Internet at Aurora College (Ft. Smith, Inuvik, and Yellowknife campuses). Approximately 150 students will be surveyed in Fort Smith, 70 students in Inuvik, and 150 students in Yellowknife. This data will be evaluated to determine the usefulness of the Internet for communications and research purposes....

Principal Investigator: Wall, Denis
Licensed Year(s): 1995
Summary: The survey will collect data from students, administrators, teachers, Board members, and other school-based staff. Pilot surveys will be undertaken to test the surveys and to identify necessary changes. A randomly selected group of 30 principals will be asked to collect data on incidents of interpersonal conflict in which they have to intervene. No names will be attached to surveys or descripti...

Principal Investigator: Osted, Peter F.
Licensed Year(s): 1994
Summary: The researcher will ask Community Education Councils (CEC's) of communities served by the Sahtu, Deh Cho, South Slave and Dogrib Divisional Boards of Education to complete questionnaires. Data collected will include where Items of Concern come from, what the CEC does with these Items, how these issues graded in terms of importance, and how often these issues arise. Results of the study may assist...

Principal Investigator: Coyne, Kathleen
Licensed Year(s): 1993
Summary: This study will provide to Band Council an education and employment needs assessment and a planning document to guide future endeavors aimed at promoting education and employment. Band Council and members will have maximum input into the design of the study and the final plan. Surveys of Band members will be conducted in order to collect information about employment age, high school student need...

Principal Investigator: McLean, Scott
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The researcher will use archival materials in Cambridge Bay, Yellowknife or Fort Smith in order to document the history of adult education in the Kitikmeot. As well, he will interview government employees involved with Arctic College and the Department of Education. He will analyse how the history of adult education activities are linked to processes of social change in the Kitikmeot....

Principal Investigator: Delisi, Joanne C.
Licensed Year(s): 1994 1993 1992
Summary: Ms. Delisi ill investigate the role of art in the lives of women in the Western Arctic, the effect of formal and traditional education in the early learning of women's art forms and how the role of women in the family and society has changed through art. Research will also be conducted to determine how increased pressure on women to support their families has changed the art forms and how the wome...

Principal Investigator: Gowans, Bill
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The Researcher will use a questionnaire to chart responses from all principals in the N.W.T as to their experiences in pre-arrival, arrival and succession....

Principal Investigator: Krause, Arnold
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: This research will be conducted in the hope of creating some insight into how to improve or maintain levels of job satisfaction....

Principal Investigator: Sinclair, Noel
Licensed Year(s): 1990
Summary: Mr. Sinclair will study the Arctic College Guide Development course, interview instructors, administrators and other course participants, to determine the effectiveness of the program....