Rhonda Joy

TL;DR: The authors explored the experiences of women who juggle the demands of family or parenthood while engaging in academic careers at a faculty of education and found that gender specific experiences surrounding parenting, second-career academics, pressure surrounding academic work, human costs, and commitment to work and family.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an activity system of eight classes of grade 6 children with special educational needs in an Intensive French as a second-language education program with scaffolding, social interaction, multiple modes of representing, holistic, cross-curricular, child-centred, active and meaningful learning.

TL;DR: This article investigated the concurrent development of spelling in children learning two languages and found that despite the lack of direct instruction in English, students' English spelling skills developed over the course of the year suggesting that transfer of skills was occurring between languages.

TL;DR: This paper investigated the development of children's metacognition about the influence of ability and effort on reading problems and found that subjects appointed effort, but not ability, a major role in the cause and remediation of reading problems.

TL;DR: This article surveyed educational psychologists from the four English districts in Newfoundland and Labrador to investigate areas such as current and preferred work activities, typical assessment and counselling practices, and psychological test access and perceived test usefulness.