NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Labrentz, Arnold
Licensed Year(s): 2000 1998
Summary: This research project involves examining negative attitudes towards mathematics. Data collection will be by questionnaire and videotaped interview. A series of questionnaires will be given to a number of students to assess their level of math anxiety. Those identified as being math anxious will be asked to participate in a more in-depth interview. All participation is voluntary and all informatio...

Principal Investigator: Sharkey, Irene
Licensed Year(s): 1998
Summary: I will mainly reflect on any experiences and review secondary sources. I will collect data through an exploration of my own practice as an educator and through an investigation of significant themes previously identified in the literature studied in the area of cross-cultural and adult education. The following themes will be considered farther for their relevance in organizing the investigation: D...

Principal Investigator: Hosty, Joan
Licensed Year(s): 1996
Summary: Data will be collected from the various directors of the Divisional Boards of Education who oversee the programs, as well as from the archives of Aurora College Thebacha Campus....

Principal Investigator: Doyle, Marie
Licensed Year(s): 1996
Summary: The researcher will utilize three methods to gather data: interviews, document analysis, and a questionnaire. Interviews of staff and students at the Yellowknife campus are the centre piece of the planned research, while the questionnaires will be used principally to identify interview participants. Informed consent will be obtained through the use of consent forms....

Principal Investigator: Jackson, Mame
Licensed Year(s): 1994
Summary: We plan to speak with hamlet leaders and others about the possibility of working together to organize a university-level course for about 20 students on Inuit culture and art which might be held in Igloolik at a mutually-agreeable time in the next year or two. The course would be jointly sponsored by Carleton University and DePaul University....

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: Norton, Mary
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: The purpose of this research is to describe how people in Arviat have developed an Inuktituk literacy program for adults. The research will be published so that others working in the adult literacy field will be able to learn from experiences of the people in Arviat....

Principal Investigator: Srivastava, Sarita
Licensed Year(s): 1990
Summary: The Researcher will interview individuals and groups within community groups in order to learn about their history and accomplishments as well as the obstacles they have faced....

Principal Investigator: Schur, Barbara
Licensed Year(s): 1990
Summary: Ms. Schur will conduct a two and a half day workshop and will collect information from the adult educators using interviews, observations and analysis of participant's journals....