Events

Systematic sense-making: Understanding the applied value of systematic reviews and meta-analyses

• January 30, 2025, 3:00pm-4:30pm, Register now!
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Systematic reviews produce high-impact publications that aim to provide the ‘big picture’ on a specific theme and thus guide related policymaking, operational practices, and future research. On January 30, 2025, we will hear from several CSLP members as they outline the basic methodology of systematic reviews and meta-analyses and present findings from recent and ongoing work. Participants will explain how they have used various review types (meta-analysis, systematic review, scoping review) across a variety of subject areas. 

This presentation will be of interest to researchers and students looking to learn more about systematic review methodologies and how they might incorporate them into their own research programs.

Richard Schmid, Robert Bernard and Eugene Borokhovski on the comparative effectiveness of online, blended learning and flipped classroom interventions in post-secondary education. Presenters will use an array of meta-analyses conducted from 2004 to 2023, to summarize major research findings in the field of distance education and blended learning.

Éric Dion on the strengths, limitations and applied potential of the best studies on effective regular classroom math instruction at the elementary level.

Ghayda Hassan, Sebastien Alarie-Brouillette, and Wynnpaul Verala on the effectiveness of de-radicalization programs and policies. The session will provide an overview of the production of guidelines for practice, using a concrete example on prevention practices for PVE to show case the advantages of this multistep mixed process.

Une réponse proportionnelle aux menaces de violence faites par les élèves du primaire et du secondaire

• May 29, 2025, 4:00pm, Register now!
• Public Conference (in English with simultaneous French translation)
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For safety reasons, school authorities often use out-of-school suspension or transfer when students make threats of violence or act in ways that suggest they pose a danger to others. However, educational research has found that school removal is not an effective strategy and can be over-used on students who did not pose a serious threat. Professor Cornell of the University of Virginia will present a protocol widely used by school staff in U.S. and Canadian schools to conduct assessments that distinguish serious threats from threats that are not serious and to respond proportionally based on the circumstances and context of the student’s behavior. Research conducted in more than 4,000 schools has found this protocol to be a safe and effective way to respond to student threats and to focus on providing support services for students rather than removing them from school.