NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Brisson-Boivin, Kara
Licensed Year(s): 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4849. The information MediaSmarts will gather through this new Young Canadians in a Wireless World (YCWW) research will help the research team better determine how well youth in Canada are maximizing the potential of digital technology for participation in our digital society and for protecting and advancing their interests...

Principal Investigator: Conrad, Diane H
Licensed Year(s): 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013
Summary: The aim of the study is to initiate a creative exchange amongst youth in 4 Aboriginal communities (Fort Good Hope, NWT; Pangnirtung, Nunavut; Kainai Reserve, Southern Alberta, Amiskwaciy Academy, Edmonton, Alberta) through performing arts, storytelling and technology. Through consultation with the communities regarding the study's design and objectives, and collaboration between Aboriginal and non...

Principal Investigator: Hawkins, Tyler
Licensed Year(s): 2002
Summary: The research project that will tract the Gates-MacGinite Reading Test scores of approximately 75 Harry Camsell students from between the 1999 to 2001 academic school period. The study will attempt to correlate the literacy score results between those stu...

Principal Investigator: Branch, Jennifer
Licensed Year(s): 1999
Summary: The researcher will meet with community members, parents, students, teachers and school administrators to learn about the information seeking processes of junior high students. The equipment used on site will include a computer with CD-ROM capabilities, audio cassette recorder and video cassette recorder. The methods of data collection will include interviews, observations and verbal protocol anal...

Principal Investigator: Standefer, Roma
Licensed Year(s): 1994 1993
Summary: The researcher will examine the impact of television on the community of Lake Harbour. Information will be collected through the use of interviews with selected people, including elders, adults and youth. Discussions will also be held with school teachers, social and health workers, Hamlet Council members and the RCMP. The research is being done to assess ways in which the CRTC can provide bett...

Principal Investigator: Takano, Toshio
Licensed Year(s): 1979
Summary: As part of a master's thesis on the "Acculturation of the Canadian Eskimo" to study the various aspects of everyday Inuit life. Such things as social organization, religion, education levels, employment levels, technological awareness and levels of hunting fishing and trapping will be documented....