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Rylee Oram

Limited Term Appointment

Research Interests

My research focuses on learning behaviours and learning environments, with an emphasis on how students engage with and regulate their learning. I am particularly interested in factors that support effective learning, including motivation, self-regulation, and the use of learning strategies. I have a growing interest in executive function development and its impact on learning, as well as how students develop and apply effective learning strategies across diverse educational contexts and among diverse learners, including those with varying learning needs and disabilities.

Selected Publications

Sullivan, B., Oram, R., Garant, J., & Green-Demers, I. (in press). Does being yourself matter? Authenticity as a mediator between psychological needs and autonomous motivation in postsecondary students. Canadian Journal of Higher Education.

Oram, R., Dou, A., & Rogers, M. (2025). Pilot study of self-determination theory and motivational interviewing intervention targeting need satisfaction, motivation, and procrastination. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology. 11(2), 299–310. https://doi.org/10.1037/stl0000331

Rogers, M. A., Klan, A., Oram, R., Krause, A., Whitley, J., Smith, D. J., & McBrearty, N. (2024). School absenteeism and child mental health: A mixed-methods study of internalizing and externalizing symptoms. School Mental Health, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12310-024-09640-2

Oram, R., Sullivan, R., & Rogers, M. (2023). A comparison of the perceptions of need satisfaction and need frustration between racialized and non-racialized undergraduate students. Canadian Journal of Higher Education53(1), 16-31. https://doi.org/10.47678/cjhe.v53i1.189843

Oram, R., Daffner-Deming, M., Ahn, J. H., Rogers, M., & DuPaul, G. (2023). Basic psychological needs of undergraduate students with and without high ADHD symptomatology. Canadian Journal of Educational and Social Studies3(1), 17-28. https://doi.org/10.53103/cjess.v3i1.94

Oram, R., & Rogers, M. (2022). Academic procrastination in undergraduate students: Understanding the role of basic psychological need satisfaction and frustration and academic motivation. Canadian Journal of Education. 45(3). 619-645. https://doi.org/10.53967/cje-rce.v45i3.5293