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| Click here to read the new publication by Douglas Willms titled "Pre-schoolers Benefit from New Skills Assessments". The article highlights the Early Years Evaluation-Direct Assessment, a skills based pre-school assessment developed by Willms and colleagues that evaluates aspects of early child development in four developmental domains. This work is featured in this month's special theme issue of the Canadian Education Associations Education Canada focusing on "concepts and practices that disrupt or nudge aside conventional concepts and practices, because they raise the quality of the learning experience" (George Pearson, guest editor, pg.3). For more information on the Early Years Evaluation contact: info@ksiresearch.com
Link: http://www.cea-ace.ca/media/en/Pre-School_Theme09.pdf posted on : December 15, 2009 |
 On May 26-27, 2009, the Atlantic Network for Prevention Research (ANPR) and the Canadian Research Institute for Social Policy (CRISP) teamed up to offer a two-day workshop on the use of large-scale databases to improve our understanding of health impacts of social and physical environments in communities, workplaces, and schools. This workshop was offered to students and postdoctoral fellows of the ANPR to collaborate and work directly with Dr. J. Douglas Willms and Dr. Lucia Tramonte in the development of their own quantitative research projects.posted on : June 22, 2009 |
| CEA releases the first National Report of the What did you do in school today? initiative Through What did you do in school today?, CEA, in partnership with the Canadian Council on Learning and school districts across Canada, are bringing life to the idea of student engagement in the classroom, and exploring its powerful relationship with adolescent learning, student achievement, and effective teaching.  More Detailsposted on : May 28, 2009 |
| Willms Elected to National Academy of Education - May 2009 More Details posted on : May 21, 2009 |
| Click here for the October newsletter from the Comprehensive School Health Research Team at UPEI:
CSHR Newsletter OCT 2009 posted on : October 30, 2009 |
| Position Vacancy - Dean, Faculty of Education, UNB Nominations and applications are invited for the position of Dean of the Faculty of Education with the University of New Brunswick's Fredericton Campus effective July 1, 2010. See details: http://www.unb.ca/crisp/pdf/454437_Advertisement_Final.doc posted on : October 26, 2009 |
| ANPR - Deadline extended to February 15, 2007 ANPR proudly announces: Call for Abstracts, Workshops and Conference Sessions for the conference Assessment and Action for Healthy Settings: Schools, Communities, Workplaces, Public Health Organizations & More, sponsored by the Atlantic Networks for Prevention Research (website). It will be held in St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada, July 4-6, 2007. For details click here posted on : January 24, 2007 |
| The Canadian Health Services Research Foundation is planning a Research Use Week (Atlantic) in Moncton on May 29-31, 2006: http://www.chsrf.ca/ruweeks_atl_e.php More Details posted on : April 13, 2006 |