Measuring the Impact of a Weeklong Fall Break on Stress Physiology in First Year Engineering Students

Canadian post-secondary institutions are increasingly introducing a fall break into their term calendars, with the stated goal of reducing student stress and improving academic success. We conducted a pilot study around the time of this fall break during which we collected saliva samples to measur...

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Main Authors: Ayesha Khan, Heather Poole, Elliott A. Beaton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education 2018-10-01
Series:Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
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Online Access:https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/cjsotl_rcacea/vol9/iss2/9