Evaluating Success: Mother Earth's Children's Charter School Longitudinal Study
Mother Earth's Children's Charter School (MECCS) was established in response tothe need for a culturally compatible and positive educational experience forIndigenous children in north central Alberta. Before the school's opening in 2003,researchers from the University of Alberta were...
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ftubcjournals:oai:ojs.library.ubc.ca:article/196498 2023-05-15T16:16:16+02:00 Evaluating Success: Mother Earth's Children's Charter School Longitudinal Study Baydala, Lola Rasmussen, Carmen Bisanz, Jeffrey Kennedy, Merle Weigum, Natalie Worrell, Stephanie Charchun, Julianna Letourneau, Nicole Sherman, Jody Birch, June Wikman, Erik 2021-12-10 application/pdf http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/CJNE/article/view/196498 https://doi.org/10.14288/cjne.v32i2.196498 eng eng UBC Faculty of Education http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/CJNE/article/view/196498/191583 http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/CJNE/article/view/196498 doi:10.14288/cjne.v32i2.196498 Copyright (c) 2021 Canadian Journal of Native Education Canadian Journal of Native Education; Vol. 32 No. 2 (2009) 0710-1481 10.14288/cjne.v32i2 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article 2021 ftubcjournals https://doi.org/10.14288/cjne.v32i2.196498 https://doi.org/10.14288/cjne.v32i2 2023-01-04T07:51:12Z Mother Earth's Children's Charter School (MECCS) was established in response tothe need for a culturally compatible and positive educational experience forIndigenous children in north central Alberta. Before the school's opening in 2003,researchers from the University of Alberta were invited by the MECCSadministration, parents, and the Vice-Chief of the Assembly of First Nations toconduct a longitudinal evaluation of change in measures of behavior, academicachievement, self-perception, and health in children who attend the school. Data werecollected and analyzed from 86 research participants who attended the school duringits first three years of operation. All measures significantly declined or showed nosignificant change during the study period. Possible explanations for the observeddeclines include transfer of higher-performing students out of the school after theirinitial enrollment, an unexpected and high enrollment of special-needs students, anda lack of adjustment time for the school to begin operations before testing began. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations Open Access Journal Hosting (University of British Columbia) |
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Mother Earth's Children's Charter School (MECCS) was established in response tothe need for a culturally compatible and positive educational experience forIndigenous children in north central Alberta. Before the school's opening in 2003,researchers from the University of Alberta were invited by the MECCSadministration, parents, and the Vice-Chief of the Assembly of First Nations toconduct a longitudinal evaluation of change in measures of behavior, academicachievement, self-perception, and health in children who attend the school. Data werecollected and analyzed from 86 research participants who attended the school duringits first three years of operation. All measures significantly declined or showed nosignificant change during the study period. Possible explanations for the observeddeclines include transfer of higher-performing students out of the school after theirinitial enrollment, an unexpected and high enrollment of special-needs students, anda lack of adjustment time for the school to begin operations before testing began. |
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Baydala, Lola Rasmussen, Carmen Bisanz, Jeffrey Kennedy, Merle Weigum, Natalie Worrell, Stephanie Charchun, Julianna Letourneau, Nicole Sherman, Jody Birch, June Wikman, Erik Evaluating Success: Mother Earth's Children's Charter School Longitudinal Study |
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Evaluating Success: Mother Earth's Children's Charter School Longitudinal Study |
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