NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Hodgkins, Andrew P
Licensed Year(s): 2012 2011 2010
Summary: The objectives of this third and final phase of the research are to share research findings with community stakeholders and community members. In doing so, feedback received will be used to validate findings and also provide a means of further engaging with community stakeholders. Research findings will be presented in the form of public presentations and individual presentations to various ass...

Principal Investigator: Hammond, Merryl
Licensed Year(s): 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007
Summary: This research aims to empower local Inuvialuit community members to better understand tobacco and its health and other effects (e.g. high costs of tobacco affects family budgets), and to motivate them to consider quitting or reducing their use of tobacco. As well, it aims to reach young children and youth before they start smoking, and to spread the message that smoking is not “cool”. Our method o...

Principal Investigator: Parker, Aliana
Licensed Year(s): 2011
Summary: The research objective is to understand the connection between Indigenous languages and the land, and to explore how that connection is represented in websites used for Indigenous language education. The central research question is: What is the significance of Indigenous perspectives of land for Indigenous language revitalization efforts? The connection between language and land will be the main ...

Principal Investigator: Little, Lois M.
Licensed Year(s): 2011
Summary: GNWT Education, Culture and Employment (ECE) has commissioned this evaluation to: 1) determine if the current early childhood education delivery model and the Aurora College Early Childhood Development (ECD) Training programs are meeting the needs of students, parents, children, and communities in the NWT; and 2) learn about other models of training within the NWT and in other Canadian jurisd...

Principal Investigator: O'Keefe, Jeffrey
Licensed Year(s): 2011
Summary: The objective of this qualitative study is to explore how current methods of teacher performance appraisals contribute to teacher growth and improvement over time in the Northwest Territories. This study explores how current methods of teacher performance appraisals result in teacher growth and improvement over time. Teacher perceptions about the value, benefit, and purpose of teacher performanc...

Principal Investigator: Taylor, Donald M.
Licensed Year(s): 2010 2009
Summary: The objectives of this research project are to develop a partnership between school, community and ministry or regional education authorities that will serve as the basis for a collaborative plan of action based on survey results regarding territorial educational challenges; to build the capacity within each territory/region regarding community-based survey research. This research began in Paul...

Principal Investigator: Rose, Louise
Licensed Year(s): 2010
Summary: The goal is to survey critical care nurses across Canada to obtain a comprehensive description of nurses’ current knowledge and practice of pain assessment and management in critically ill adults. The researchers hypothesize that considerable variation exists for pain assessment, documentation, and management as well as the education received regarding pain assessment and management priorities for...

Principal Investigator: Martin, Marissa
Licensed Year(s): 2009
Summary: This study will focus on the following: 1) The development of a formal performance measurement framework focused on the Closing the Aboriginal Student Achievement Gap Initiative. This framework will serve as a blueprint for program managers to use in measuring and reporting on the results and outcomes of this Initiative over its lifecycle. 2) The development of a supporting decision making logi...

Principal Investigator: Robinson, Suzanne M
Licensed Year(s): 2010 2009 2008
Summary: This licence is being issued for the scientific research application no. 976. The objectives of this research are: 1) to train students to conduct primary research using interviewing, video and reflective assignments to support learning and foster increased research in the North by Northerners; 2) To create a high quality product that can be used as a learning tool for Northern and Southern Stu...

Principal Investigator: Balanoff, Helen
Licensed Year(s): 2008
Summary: Success in adult education is measured by academic achievement, but other benefits for learners exist. This study will examine non-academic outcomes among Aboriginal learners in an effort to reframe notions of success. The project will involve learners and instructors from three adult education programs: campus, community learning centres, and community-based non-government programs. Participa...