Educational Psychology, Ph.D.
completed dissertations
COMPLETED DISSERTATIONS
(from Committees Chaired by Educational Psychology Faculty)
ALLEN, Jane S. (1988). Development factors contributing to the interactive decisions and instructional behaviors of elementary physical education teachers.
ANDERSON, Mary C.M. (2005). Why generating delayed summaries improves metacomprehension accuracy for regular and poor readers.
ARIAN, Gretchen W. (1998). Adolescents’ images of science.
AVELLAR-FLEMING, Maria A. (1988). Variables influencing educational productivity in science: A study of a group of 12 year old Brazilian students.
BAKUNAS, Boris (1992). The role of text structure knowledge in the expository writing of experts and novices.
BASU, Semonti (2007). Assessing collaboration between therapists and caregivers during early intervention service delivery.
BECKER, KIRK (2007). Computerized scoring of text interviews: A model for social-cognitive domain theory.
BLAKE, Robert W. Jr. (1995). Implementing alternative science approaches: An ethnographic study of the processes of enactment of one urban elementary teacher.
BODE, Rita K. (1996). Using methodological advances in the modeling of the effect of ability grouping on student achievement.
BODIE, Nancy L. (2003). The entrepreneur and ethics in the global environment.
BUSCH, Cathyrn L. (1995). Hearing the voices of learners: Students negotiate the curriculum.
CHRISTAKIS, Dean G. (1993). Prestige and recognition in education: Key informant, prize design, and historical organization case studies.
COLSANT, Lee (1996). To teach nonsense or some sense: Experiences with African American students.
COOK, Christopher (1993). Factors affecting long term implementation of integrated learning systems in elementary schools.
COUMBE-LILLEY, John (2007). Relationships between self management training, psychosocial factors and uptake of exercise.
CURTIN, Clare M. (1995). Collaborative treatment planning with children.
DANIEL, Vernon (1995). Effects of national characteristics on tertiary level education, 1980 - 1990: A cross-national study.
DOYLE, Susan (1995). Student involvement and effective teaching practices as determinants of student success.
DUPLECHAIN, Rosalind (1998). The impact of traumatic exposure on the school achievement of school-aged children.
DUZINSKI, Gary A. (1987). The educational utility of cognitive behavior modification strategies with children: A quantitative synthesis.
FILIPPELLI, Laura A. (1997). The social relationships of accomplished scientists during their doctoral studies.
FREMGEN, Bonnie F. (1988). Hospital trustee education: An examination of the relationship of education to the self-evaluation process.
GERACE, Laina M. (1987). Role strain, psychological status, and substance use patterns in nurse educators.
GIBSON, Gwendolyn D. (1992). High school science classrooms: Teachers’ teaching and students’ learning.
GLEAVES, Kenneth (1993). Urban African-American students’ perception of the purpose of school.
GOLDSTEIN, Ari (2005). The impact of social class on African-American students’ views of school authority and rules.
GORDON, Ann (1993). How less capable students stimulate mathematical talk and thinking in a heterogeneous learning group.
GRANT, Jean M. (1994). Changing teachers’ attitudes toward computers through education: A study of the process of change.
GREENBERG, Rebecca C. (2001). Self-perceptions, classroom environment, and students’ reported help seeking behaviors.
GRUCA, JoAnn M. (1988). The impact of college graduation on the next generation: A path analytic model.
HASEBE, Yuki (2000). Parental psychological abuse and adolescent psychopathology: Its relevance to parental control in U. S. and Japan.
HOWARD, Michelle R. (1983). College governance and decision making: An empirical analysis of college presidents in northern Illinois.
IBE, Richard (1995). The enduring effects of productivity factors on eighth grade students’ mathematics outcome.
IRAMANEERAT, Cherdsak (2007). A validity study of a communication skills assessment of medical residents.
JAIN, Jyoti (1999). Co-existing in two cultures: Parental beliefs and children’s activities.
JOHNSON, Joyce H. (1986). Differentiation between levels of nursing education a quantitative synthesis.
JOHNSON, Marvin L. (1986). Educational productivity at the community college: A test of a model.
JULIAN, Kathryn M. (2007). Measuring reading comprehension: An assessment system based upon psychological theory.
KAKKURI, David C. (1994). Effect of a simulation on accomplishment measurement of an industrial quality control training program.
KATZ,
KNIGHT, Eileen Q. (1992). Teacher preparation in elementary math: Students’ response to an emphasis on understanding.
KOMUKAI, Atsuko (1998). The distance education universities in
KORTECAMP, Karen L. (1989). An exploratory study of education, economic growth, and wealth.
LAI, Jin-Shei (1996). Testing a hypothesis for gender, environment and mediations in math learning.
LANGE, Elke W. (1987). An input-output analysis for the prediction of thirteen year-olds’ achievement in and attitude towards reading.
LARDIZABAL, Edwin T. (1985). The ethnic home environment -- its impact on school attitudes and academic achievement.
LEE, John (1991). Children’s understanding of personal rights violations.
LENTSCH, Curt (2000). Culture distance, social capital and mainland Chinese in the
LITTLEWOOD, Edna M. (1998). Teaching insights of exemplary women teachers.
LIU, Xin. (2006). A Bayesian nonparametric approach to testing essential unidimensionality in item response theory.
LINS DYER, Maria Tereza (2003). Mexican adolescents’ perceptions of parental control and academic achievement: A social domain approach.
LYSAKOWSKI, Richard S. (1981). Cues, participation and corrective feedback in relation to learning: A quantitative synthesis for educational policy.
MAGALHAES, Levia (1995). Assessing motor and process skills during naturalistic classroom observation: A pilot study.
MAHONY, Jean (2003). A look at multiage classes.
MILOSHEFF, Ellen (1991). The influence of high school teachers’ attitudes and behaviors on students’ mathematics achievement.
MILTNER, Daniel (2007). Solving problems in different ways: Aspects of pre-service teachers’ math cognition and pedagogy.
NIEMIEC, Richard P. (1984). A meta-analysis of computer assisted instruction at the elementary school level.
NEELY, David E. (1997). A ten year study of minorities in the legal profession 1986-1996.
O’NEILL, Thomas R. (2002). Explaining rating scale usage: The semantic threshold for induced categories.
PAIK, Susan J (2001). Educational productivity in South Korea and the United States.
PASCHAL, Rosanne A. (1990). Factors contributing to health knowledge, attitude, and practices of elementary school students.
PERLMAN, Carole L. (1982). Properties of the value added model.
PERRY, Chrisna M. (2007). The effects of a parent training intervention on students’ self-regulated learning.
PISANI, Anoush M. (1994). Involvement through cooperative learning an attempt to increase persistence in the biological sciences.
PORADZISZ, David J. (2004). Alternative instructional methods in police learning.
PRATT, Jeffery L. (2005). Lying across social-cognitive domains: Implications for the notion of privacy and moral development.
PRENDERGAST, Debra L. (1998). Influences of college environments and the development of critical thinking skills in college juniors.
REYNOLDS, Arthur J. (1989). Early schooling of children at risk.
ROBBINS, Joanne K. (2002). Effects of setting timed practice aims on problem solving.
SAPIRO, Clary (1991). Cultural aspects of moral reasoning: The impact of family structure.
SARES, Timothy (1995) Influences of educational attainment on helpfulness, civic values and Machiavellian views.
SCHIDDELL, Betty (1991). Curriculum, instruction and effective teaching: A portrait of eighth grade mathematics.
SCHILLER, Diane P. (1981). Testing a model of educational productivity.
SHIH, Sophia M. (2004). Parental educational expectations : A comparative study of Chinese Mandarin and Cantonese immigrants.
SOLTIS, Judith M. (1986). Factors contributing to thirteen-year olds’ interest and achievement in writing: A secondary analysis of the fourth national assessment of writing.
SPENCER, Shirley A. (2007). Effects of physiological & cognitive-perceptual factors on health promotion practices in army reservists.
SPYCHALA,
STALLINGS-SAHLER, Susan (1995). Object manipulation in toddlers: Influence of uterine cocaine exposure and childrearing environment.
STARIHA, Winifred E. (1989). Productivity factors influencing the achievement and interest in mathematics of college-bound seniors.
STRYKOWSKI, Bernadette (1992). Factors influencing eighth grade students’ math achievement and attitudes: A secondary analysis.
THOMAS, John (1997). Productivity and mathematics achievement and attitudes among African-Americans: Testing Walberg’s model.
TOWNSEND, Katherine (2007). Accelerated reader: Optimal conditions for reading achievement using a computer information system.
TROSPER, Trygve B. (2002). African-American middle class family: Parenting strategies for children’s transgressions.
UGUROGLU, Margaret (1982). The dynamic relationship of factors which predict achievement and motivation.
VALENTE, Michael E. (1998). Secondary analysis of
VARELAS, Maria (1992). Inducting students into science: A conceptual framework and a study of its classroom application.
WALLACE, Trudy (1989). The effects of enrichment on gifted students: A quantitative synthesis.
WANG, Baofeng D. (2001). Toward an understanding of Hong Kong and
WEBER, Elsa K. (1991). Children’s autonomy in contrasting contexts.
WEINSTEIN, Thomas (1991). The effects of education, environment, and current activities on literacy in young adults.
WHEELER, Amy (1999). The development and validation of the coaches’ motivational orientation scale.
WHITE-MCNULTY, Lisa (2002). An examination of adolescents” motivation for homework.
WILLIAMS, Deborah B. (1996). Gender effects in a productivity model of parent involvement for eighth grade students.
XU, Fuzhen (2001). Chinese children’s and mothers’ concepts regarding morality, social convention and children’s personal autonomy.
YORK, Joseph W. (2001). Meta-analysis of the effect of medical school strategies on primary care by medical students.
ZELTMANN, Mary (1991). Influences of aptitude and environment factors on the quality of mathematics instruction.
ZHANG, Guoxiong (1997). The world expansion of primary education, 1980-1990: A casual model.
ZILLMAN, O. John (1997). The development of social knowledge in pre-service teachers.