(Alphabetically by last name)
MIGUEL ABAD, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation: Forsaken Study: Youth Organizing, Development and Sustaining Abolitionist Visions in Late Liberal San Francisco
Degree Awarded: September 9, 2020
PRIYANKA AGARWAL, Ph.D.
Specialization: Teaching, Learning, and Educational Improvement
Dissertation: Student Participation and Agency in Mathematical Problem Posing
Degree Awarded: September 11, 2019
ALEJANDRA ALBARRÁN, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Improving School Readiness Through Parent Education Programming: Understanding the Role of Community-Based Organizations in a Large Urban Center
Degree Awarded: June 13, 2014
ANAMARIE AUGER, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation: Child Care and Community Services: Characteristics of Service Use and Effects on Parenting and the Home Environment
Degree Awarded: December 19, 2014
TARA BARNHART, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Participation in a Video Club: Influences on Teachers and Teaching
Degree Awarded: June 10, 2016
KRESHNIK "KEKO" BEGOLLI, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: The Role of Executive Functions and Visual Supports for Overcoming Misconceptions through Structure-Mapping in Mathematics Classrooms
Awarded: September 9, 2015
TRACY BENNETT, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation: Examining Levels of Alignment Between School and Afterschool and Associations with Student Academic Achievement
Degree Awarded: June 14, 2013
MELISSA CALLAGHAN, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Teaching, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Connecting Learning and Developmental Sciences to Educational Preschool Apps: Analyzing App Design Features and Testing Their Effectiveness
Degree Awarded: June 15, 2018
MARY CASHEN, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation: Sex, Class, and the Evolution of Career and Technical Education
Degree Awarded: December 19, 2014
VICKY CHEN, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: Writing Centers and Students’ Experiences with Writing in College
Degree Awarded: September 9, 2020
HUY CHUNG, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development & Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: Appropriating and Enacting Literacy Teaching Practices in the Context of the Pathway Project Professional Development Program
Degree Awarded: December 11, 2015
ANDREA CONS, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: The Use of Academic Words in the Analytical Writing of Secondary English Learners and Native English Speakers
Degree Awarded: June 14, 2013
BIANCA CUNG, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: Personality and Scheduling in Online Courses
Degree Awarded: December 14, 2018
DAN FLYNN, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation: Postsecondary Student Engagement: Baccalaureate Attainment, STEM Persistence Gaps, and the Institutional Contexts of Academic and Social Engagement
Degree Awarded: June 13, 2014
SARAH GILLILAND, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Clinical Reasoning and Characterization of Practice
Degree Awarded: June 12, 2015
LAUREN GODFREY, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: Three Studies Exploring the Influence of the Pathway Project on Teacher and Student Learning
Degree Awarded: December 6, 2019
NICHOLAS GRAHAM, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation: The Community College: Three Papers on the Transfer to and Graduation from Four Year Institutions
Degree Awarded: December 15, 2017
CHRISTA GREENFADER, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: The Role of Executive Function in the Early Academic Achievement of Hispanics: A National Study
Degree Awarded: December 15, 2017
JANICE HANSEN, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Drawing Connections Across Conceptually Related Visual Representations in Science
Degree Awarded: June 14, 2013
LAURIE HANSEN, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: Patterns of Independent Reading, Vocabulary Knowledge, and Literacy Skills Among English-Only, Limited-English Proficient, and Fluent-English Proficient Children
Degree Awarded: September 7, 2011
WENLIANG HE, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: Investigation of the Effects of Flipped Instruction on Student Exam Performance, Motivation and Perceptions
Degree Awarded: December 9, 2016
BRIANA HINGA, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Reframing High School English Language Arts within Democracy, Social Justice, and Expansive Learning
Degree Awarded: December 19, 2014
TIEN THUY HO, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: Bilingual Family Literacy Practices
Degree Awarded: December 13, 2019
JIN KYOUNG HWANG, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: Adolescent Language Minority Students' Vocabulary Growth: Exploring Heterogeneity With Multilevel Analysis
Degree Awarded: December 11, 2015
NAYOUNG HWANG, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation: Suspension and its Consequences: Individual and Classroom Effects
Degree Awarded: September 13, 2017
BRANDY JENNER, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation: Engagement, Decision-Making, and Community: Veterans in Higher Education
Degree Awarded: June 15, 2018
SUHANG JIANG, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: Cultural Values and Cross-National Differences in Educational Choices and Performance
Degree Awarded: September 12, 2018
MARIA (MASHA) JONES, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Co-Morbidity and Treatment
Degree Awarded: September 11, 2019
ROBERT KALINOWSKI, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Teaching, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Techies, Learners, and Consumers: A Multi-Case Ethnography of 3- and 4-Year-Olds’ Digital Screen Use in Daily Life
Degree Awarded: December 18, 2020
CONNIE KANG, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation: Opportunities and Barriers to the American Dream: Impacts of In-State Tuition Policies on Higher Education Access for Undocumented and Documented Students
Degree Awarded: December 13, 2019
LICHE (Sean) KAO, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Testing to Learn: How Students’ Knowledge, Motivation, and Stress Responses Interact with the Testing Effect
Degree Awarded: March 22, 2013
JENELL KRISHNAN, Ph.D.
Specialization: Human Development in Context
Dissertation: Formative Assessment During Online Collaborative Writing in Middle Schools
Degree Awarded: December 13, 2019
SABRINA KATAOKA, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Person Characteristics Related to Out-of-School Time Participation and Outcomes: An Examination of Selection, Moderation, and Mediation Effects
Degree Awarded: June 10, 2016
TRAN DANG KEYS, Ph.D.
Specializations: Learning, Cognition, and Development & Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation: Goal Orientation and Adolescent Mathematics Achievement
Degree Awarded: March 22, 2013
TARANA KHAN, Ph.D.
Specialization: Human Development in Context
Dissertation: Bridging Mindset Theory and Attribution Theory: A Longitudinal Exploration of Students’ Belief Patterns in Their Early Years of College
Degree Awarded: September 11, 2019
MELISSA COURTNEY KIBRICK, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: Cognitive Hierarchies of Mathematics Learning: An Analysis of the ST Math Curriculum
Degree Awarded: March 22, 2013
KSENIA KOROBKOVA, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: Writing Media: Mobile Story-Sharing Apps as New Learning Ecologies
Degree Awarded: September 13, 2017
ARENA CHANG LAM, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Student Perceptions of Classroom Goal Structure: Methodological Considerations and Person-Context Interactions
Degree Awarded: September 9, 2015
JAMES LEAK, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation: Effects of Teacher Educational Background and Experience on Student Achievement in the Early Grades
Degree Awarded: June 15, 2012
DAVID LEE, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology & Learning, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: A Longitudinal Analysis of Executive Functions, Learning-Related Skills, and Mathematics Achievement
Degree Awarded: September 7, 2016
HANSOL LEE, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: Exploring Corpus Use in Second Language Vocabulary Learning: Toward the Establishment of a Data-Driven Learning Model
Degree Awarded: March 22, 2019
KENNETH (TAE HAN) LEE, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Adolescent Physical Activity and Education
Degree Awarded: December 9, 2016
RYAN LEWIS, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation: Examining the Implementation and Impact of "Double Dose" Math Courses in a Mid-Sized, Suburban School District
Degree Awarded: June 15, 2018
QIUJIE LI, Ph.D.
Specialization: Teaching, Learning, and Educational Improvement
Dissertation: Understanding and Supporting Academic Attribution in Online Learning Using Clickstream Data
Degree Awarded: September 11, 2019
WEILIN LI, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation: Center-Based Early Childhood Education: Curriculum, Implementation, and Intensity
Degree Awarded: June 14, 2013
ALEX LIN, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Contextt
Dissertation: Using Controversial Issues to Help Middle School Students to Become Informed and Active Citizens: A Randomized Evaluation of the Word Generation Program
Degree Awarded: September 10, 2014
CHIN-HSI LIN, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: Language Learning Through Social Network Sites: Perceptions and Reality
Degree Awarded: December 14, 2012
GRACE C. LIN, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Teaching, Cognition, and Development & Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: The Roles of Language and Executive Function on Early Mathematics Among Emergent Bilinguals
Degree Awarded: June 15, 2018
JOYCE LIN, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Influences of Caregivers' Cultural Norms, Values, Beliefs and Experiences on Caregiver Physical Aggression
Degree Awarded: December 9, 2016
SONJA LIND, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: Cultures of Support: A Case Study of International Undergraduate Students and International Center Staff Members
Degree Awarded: June 13, 2014
DAVID DA WEI LIU, Ph.D.
Specialization: Teaching, Learning, and Educational Improvement
Dissertation: Growing Stems of the Buried Seeds: Developing STEM Identities of Mexican American Girls Across Time and Space
Degree Awarded: December 13, 2019
JENNIFER LONG, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Developing an Understanding of Systems in the Context of Ecohydrological Citizen Science Research
Degree Awarded: December 11, 2015
TINA MATUCHNIAK, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: Mind the Gap: A Cognitive Strategies Approach to College Writing Readiness for English Language Learners
Degree Awarded: June 14, 2013
JANET MERCADO, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Broadening Participation in Mathematics: A Study of Secondary Mathematics Teachers and Noticing for Equity
Degree Awarded: September 13, 2017
PETER McPARTLAN, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Teaching, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Motivation For and Within Online College Courses
Degree Awarded: September 11, 2019
ELIZABETH MILLER, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation: Use of Spanish in Head Start and Dual Language Learners' Academic Achievement: A Mixed-Methods Study
Degree Awarded: June 10, 2016
ILONA MISSAKIAN, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: Perceptions of Writing Centers in the Community College: Ways that Students, Tutors, and Instructors Concur and Diverge
Degree Awarded: September 9, 2015
SHAFEE MOHAMMED, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Getting them ready: Predicting Learning Behavior Using A Unified Framework: Looking Beyond the Clicks
Degree Awarded: September 9, 2020
JANE NAZZAL, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology & Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation: Writing Proficiency and Student Placement in Community College Composition Courses
Degree Awarded: September 9, 2020
VERONICA NEWHART, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: Are they Present?: Homebound Children with Chronic Illness in our Schools and use of Telepresence Robots to Reach Them
Degree Awarded: June 15, 2018
TUTRANG NGUYEN, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation Title: Promoting School Readiness with Preschool Curricula
Degree Awarded: September 12, 2018
WENDY OCHOA, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Teaching, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Mobile Screen Technologies and Parents of Young Children: Investigating Diverse Parents’ Attitudes, Beliefs, and Their Interactions with Children
Degree Awarded: September 11, 2019
JESSICA OVIATT, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Teaching, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Getting Them Ready: The Descriptive Nature of Parental Beliefs, Values, and Behaviors Around Supporting the Development of Health-Related Skills in Adolescents with Cystic Fibrosis
Degree Awarded: June 12, 2020
MARIA PARENTE, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation: A Person-Context Assessment of the Prevalence and Associated Social-Academic Outcomes of Self-Care for Children and Adolescents
Degree Awarded: March 23, 2012
YOUNGMIN PARK, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: Technology-Enhanced L2 Reading: The Effects of Hierarchical Phrase Segmentation
Degree Awarded: June 10, 2016
EMILY PENNER, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation: Teaching For All? Variation in the Effects of Teach For America
Degree Awarded: September 10, 2014
PAUL RAMA, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: L2 Learning via World of Warcraft
Degree Awarded: December 19, 2014
LYNN REIMER, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development:
Dissertation: The Stem Lecture Hall: A Study of Effective Instructional Practices for Diverse Learners
Degree Awarded: June 16, 2017
MARCELA REYES, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation: Language Classification and its Consequences for English Language Learners in Diverse Middle Schools
Degree Awarded: December 9, 2016
TEOMARA RUTHERFORD, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Calibration of Confidence Judgments in Elementary Mathematics: Measurement, Development, and Improvement
Degree Awarded: December 19, 2014
ERIK RUZEK, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation: Student Motivation and Academic Achievement: An Examination of How and Why Middle School Teachers Matter
Degree Awarded: September 12, 2012
NAYSSAN SAFAVIAN, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Examining the Impact of Motivation on Achievement and Course-Taking Behavior of Low-Income Minority Youth
Degree Awarded: December 13, 2013
KATERINA SCHENKE, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Understanding Mathematics Classroom Instruction Through Students and Teachers
Degree Awarded: September 9, 2015
LAUREN SHEA, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: Talking to Learn: A Mixed-Methods Study of a Professional Development Program for Teachers of English Language Learners
Degree Awarded: June 15, 2012
ADAM SHEPPARD, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation: Informing After-School Practices: Towards An Understanding Of How Site Directors Utilize Information To Do What They Do
Degree Awarded; June 13, 2014
RAHILA MUNSHI SIMZAR, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Understanding Student Motivation and Affect in Middle School Mathematics Classrooms: Links with Algebra Course Placement and Achievement
Degree Awarded: June 10, 2015
SABRINA SOLANKI, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation: Three Essays about Higher Education Programs and Policies to Support Student Success
Degree Awarded: September 11, 2019
CHRISTOPHER STILLWELL, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Teaching, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Active Learning for International Student Users of English as a Second Language: Help or Hindrance?
Degree Awarded: June 15, 2018
RACHEL STUMPF, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: "Ready to Transition"? Writing Across High School and College Contexts
Degree Awarded: September 12, 2018
JENNIFER SUN, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Mathematics Teacher Identity in the Context of Mathematics Reform: Elementary Teacher Experiences
Degree Awarded: September 13, 2017
TAMARA TATE, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: Prior Technology Exposure, Keyboard/Mouse Activity, and Writing Achievement: Analysis of the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress Writing Assessment
Degree Awarded: June 15, 2018
KAREN TAYLOR, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: Academic Language Features in the Argumentative Writing of Second Through Eighth Grade Students
Deegree Awarded: September 11, 2019
CATHY TRAN, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Designing for Productive Persistence
Degree Awarded: December 11, 2015
NANCY TSAI, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Teaching, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Stress & Executive Control: Mediation & Moderation
Degree Awarded: September 12, 2018
NESTOR TULAGAN, Ph.D.
Specialization: Human Development in Context
Dissertation: The Family Socialization and Stage-Environment Fit of African-American Adolescents' Academic and Recreational Talent Development
Degree Awarded: September 9, 2020
JESSICA TUNNEY, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Confronting Local Manifestations of Historical Problems in Field Experience: A Model of Professional Development for Teacher Education Petitioners
Degree Awarded: June 10, 2016
OSMAN UMARJI, Ph.D.
Specialization: Human Development in Context
Dissertation: Classification of Motivational Disposition: A Psychological Systems Perspective of Academic Behavior
Degree Awarded: September 11, 2019
FEMI VANCE, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation: Adolescents' Skill-Building and Retention in a High Quality After-School Program
Degree Awarded: June 15, 2012
VIET VU, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: Documenting Instructional Practices in Large Introductory Stem Lecture Courses
Degree Awarded: September 13, 2017
WEI WANG, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation: Initial Language Status and Achievement Trajectories Among Hispanic Students: Mediation Through Executive Function
Degree Awarded: December 15, 2017
TYLER WATTS, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Context:
Dissertation: Academic Skills and Long-Run Outcomes
Degree Awarded: June 16, 2017
DALE WEBSTER, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Vocabulary Acquisition for English Learners and its Relationship to Reading Comprehension
Degree Awarded: December 14, 2012
CHENOA WOODS, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation: Patches in the Leaky Pipeline: The Influences of School Contexts on Students’ College Preparation and Choice
Degree Awarded: December 19, 2014
YING XU, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: Learning with Conversational Agents
Degree Awarded: December 18, 2020
QINGQING YANG, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Youth's Bidirectional Socialization of Importance Beliefs by Parents
Degree Awarded: September 9, 2020
JOANNA YAU, Ph.D.
Specialization: Human Development in Context
Dissertation: The Benefits of Text Messaging on Wellbeing for Young Adults and Early Adolescents
Degree Awarded: June 14, 2019
CATHERY YEH, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Mathematics, Language, and Learning; A Longitudinal Study of Elementary Teachers and Their Mathematics Teaching Practices
Degree Awarded: June 10, 2016
SOOBIN YIM, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: Digital Literacy in Academic Settings: Synchronous Collaborative Writing Among Linguistically Diverse Students
Degree Awarded: September 13, 2017
NEIL YOUNG, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Teaching, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Conceptual Change About People
Degree Awarded: June 15, 2018
SARA YOUNG, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation: Special Education Advocacy: Dispute Resolution in Three Districts
Degree Awarded: December 15, 2017
ALMA ZARAGOZA-PETTY, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation: For-Profit Alternative Programs and Schools of Choice; Structuring Safety and College-for-All in an Era of Market-Based School Reform
Degree Awarded: June 10, 2016
BINBIN ZHENG, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: Social Media and Classroom Writing: Participation, Interaction, and Collaboration
Degree Awarded: December 13, 2013
DORON ZINGER, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Teaching, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: The Realities and Possibilities of Fast-Tracked Teacher Preparation: A Longitudinal Case Study of Alternatively Certified Teachers’ Learning and Instruction
Degree Awarded: September 12, 2018
MIGUEL ABAD, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation: Forsaken Study: Youth Organizing, Development and Sustaining Abolitionist Visions in Late Liberal San Francisco
Degree Awarded: September 9, 2020
PRIYANKA AGARWAL, Ph.D.
Specialization: Teaching, Learning, and Educational Improvement
Dissertation: Student Participation and Agency in Mathematical Problem Posing
Degree Awarded: September 11, 2019
ALEJANDRA ALBARRÁN, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Improving School Readiness Through Parent Education Programming: Understanding the Role of Community-Based Organizations in a Large Urban Center
Degree Awarded: June 13, 2014
ANAMARIE AUGER, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation: Child Care and Community Services: Characteristics of Service Use and Effects on Parenting and the Home Environment
Degree Awarded: December 19, 2014
TARA BARNHART, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Participation in a Video Club: Influences on Teachers and Teaching
Degree Awarded: June 10, 2016
KRESHNIK "KEKO" BEGOLLI, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: The Role of Executive Functions and Visual Supports for Overcoming Misconceptions through Structure-Mapping in Mathematics Classrooms
Awarded: September 9, 2015
TRACY BENNETT, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation: Examining Levels of Alignment Between School and Afterschool and Associations with Student Academic Achievement
Degree Awarded: June 14, 2013
MELISSA CALLAGHAN, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Teaching, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Connecting Learning and Developmental Sciences to Educational Preschool Apps: Analyzing App Design Features and Testing Their Effectiveness
Degree Awarded: June 15, 2018
MARY CASHEN, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation: Sex, Class, and the Evolution of Career and Technical Education
Degree Awarded: December 19, 2014
VICKY CHEN, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: Writing Centers and Students’ Experiences with Writing in College
Degree Awarded: September 9, 2020
HUY CHUNG, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development & Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: Appropriating and Enacting Literacy Teaching Practices in the Context of the Pathway Project Professional Development Program
Degree Awarded: December 11, 2015
ANDREA CONS, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: The Use of Academic Words in the Analytical Writing of Secondary English Learners and Native English Speakers
Degree Awarded: June 14, 2013
BIANCA CUNG, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: Personality and Scheduling in Online Courses
Degree Awarded: December 14, 2018
DAN FLYNN, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation: Postsecondary Student Engagement: Baccalaureate Attainment, STEM Persistence Gaps, and the Institutional Contexts of Academic and Social Engagement
Degree Awarded: June 13, 2014
SARAH GILLILAND, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Clinical Reasoning and Characterization of Practice
Degree Awarded: June 12, 2015
LAUREN GODFREY, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: Three Studies Exploring the Influence of the Pathway Project on Teacher and Student Learning
Degree Awarded: December 6, 2019
NICHOLAS GRAHAM, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation: The Community College: Three Papers on the Transfer to and Graduation from Four Year Institutions
Degree Awarded: December 15, 2017
CHRISTA GREENFADER, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: The Role of Executive Function in the Early Academic Achievement of Hispanics: A National Study
Degree Awarded: December 15, 2017
JANICE HANSEN, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Drawing Connections Across Conceptually Related Visual Representations in Science
Degree Awarded: June 14, 2013
LAURIE HANSEN, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: Patterns of Independent Reading, Vocabulary Knowledge, and Literacy Skills Among English-Only, Limited-English Proficient, and Fluent-English Proficient Children
Degree Awarded: September 7, 2011
WENLIANG HE, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: Investigation of the Effects of Flipped Instruction on Student Exam Performance, Motivation and Perceptions
Degree Awarded: December 9, 2016
BRIANA HINGA, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Reframing High School English Language Arts within Democracy, Social Justice, and Expansive Learning
Degree Awarded: December 19, 2014
TIEN THUY HO, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: Bilingual Family Literacy Practices
Degree Awarded: December 13, 2019
JIN KYOUNG HWANG, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: Adolescent Language Minority Students' Vocabulary Growth: Exploring Heterogeneity With Multilevel Analysis
Degree Awarded: December 11, 2015
NAYOUNG HWANG, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation: Suspension and its Consequences: Individual and Classroom Effects
Degree Awarded: September 13, 2017
BRANDY JENNER, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation: Engagement, Decision-Making, and Community: Veterans in Higher Education
Degree Awarded: June 15, 2018
SUHANG JIANG, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: Cultural Values and Cross-National Differences in Educational Choices and Performance
Degree Awarded: September 12, 2018
MARIA (MASHA) JONES, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Co-Morbidity and Treatment
Degree Awarded: September 11, 2019
ROBERT KALINOWSKI, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Teaching, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Techies, Learners, and Consumers: A Multi-Case Ethnography of 3- and 4-Year-Olds’ Digital Screen Use in Daily Life
Degree Awarded: December 18, 2020
CONNIE KANG, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation: Opportunities and Barriers to the American Dream: Impacts of In-State Tuition Policies on Higher Education Access for Undocumented and Documented Students
Degree Awarded: December 13, 2019
LICHE (Sean) KAO, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Testing to Learn: How Students’ Knowledge, Motivation, and Stress Responses Interact with the Testing Effect
Degree Awarded: March 22, 2013
JENELL KRISHNAN, Ph.D.
Specialization: Human Development in Context
Dissertation: Formative Assessment During Online Collaborative Writing in Middle Schools
Degree Awarded: December 13, 2019
SABRINA KATAOKA, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Person Characteristics Related to Out-of-School Time Participation and Outcomes: An Examination of Selection, Moderation, and Mediation Effects
Degree Awarded: June 10, 2016
TRAN DANG KEYS, Ph.D.
Specializations: Learning, Cognition, and Development & Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation: Goal Orientation and Adolescent Mathematics Achievement
Degree Awarded: March 22, 2013
TARANA KHAN, Ph.D.
Specialization: Human Development in Context
Dissertation: Bridging Mindset Theory and Attribution Theory: A Longitudinal Exploration of Students’ Belief Patterns in Their Early Years of College
Degree Awarded: September 11, 2019
MELISSA COURTNEY KIBRICK, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: Cognitive Hierarchies of Mathematics Learning: An Analysis of the ST Math Curriculum
Degree Awarded: March 22, 2013
KSENIA KOROBKOVA, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: Writing Media: Mobile Story-Sharing Apps as New Learning Ecologies
Degree Awarded: September 13, 2017
ARENA CHANG LAM, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Student Perceptions of Classroom Goal Structure: Methodological Considerations and Person-Context Interactions
Degree Awarded: September 9, 2015
JAMES LEAK, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation: Effects of Teacher Educational Background and Experience on Student Achievement in the Early Grades
Degree Awarded: June 15, 2012
DAVID LEE, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology & Learning, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: A Longitudinal Analysis of Executive Functions, Learning-Related Skills, and Mathematics Achievement
Degree Awarded: September 7, 2016
HANSOL LEE, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: Exploring Corpus Use in Second Language Vocabulary Learning: Toward the Establishment of a Data-Driven Learning Model
Degree Awarded: March 22, 2019
KENNETH (TAE HAN) LEE, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Adolescent Physical Activity and Education
Degree Awarded: December 9, 2016
RYAN LEWIS, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation: Examining the Implementation and Impact of "Double Dose" Math Courses in a Mid-Sized, Suburban School District
Degree Awarded: June 15, 2018
QIUJIE LI, Ph.D.
Specialization: Teaching, Learning, and Educational Improvement
Dissertation: Understanding and Supporting Academic Attribution in Online Learning Using Clickstream Data
Degree Awarded: September 11, 2019
WEILIN LI, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation: Center-Based Early Childhood Education: Curriculum, Implementation, and Intensity
Degree Awarded: June 14, 2013
ALEX LIN, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Contextt
Dissertation: Using Controversial Issues to Help Middle School Students to Become Informed and Active Citizens: A Randomized Evaluation of the Word Generation Program
Degree Awarded: September 10, 2014
CHIN-HSI LIN, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: Language Learning Through Social Network Sites: Perceptions and Reality
Degree Awarded: December 14, 2012
GRACE C. LIN, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Teaching, Cognition, and Development & Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: The Roles of Language and Executive Function on Early Mathematics Among Emergent Bilinguals
Degree Awarded: June 15, 2018
JOYCE LIN, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Influences of Caregivers' Cultural Norms, Values, Beliefs and Experiences on Caregiver Physical Aggression
Degree Awarded: December 9, 2016
SONJA LIND, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: Cultures of Support: A Case Study of International Undergraduate Students and International Center Staff Members
Degree Awarded: June 13, 2014
DAVID DA WEI LIU, Ph.D.
Specialization: Teaching, Learning, and Educational Improvement
Dissertation: Growing Stems of the Buried Seeds: Developing STEM Identities of Mexican American Girls Across Time and Space
Degree Awarded: December 13, 2019
JENNIFER LONG, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Developing an Understanding of Systems in the Context of Ecohydrological Citizen Science Research
Degree Awarded: December 11, 2015
TINA MATUCHNIAK, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: Mind the Gap: A Cognitive Strategies Approach to College Writing Readiness for English Language Learners
Degree Awarded: June 14, 2013
JANET MERCADO, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Broadening Participation in Mathematics: A Study of Secondary Mathematics Teachers and Noticing for Equity
Degree Awarded: September 13, 2017
PETER McPARTLAN, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Teaching, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Motivation For and Within Online College Courses
Degree Awarded: September 11, 2019
ELIZABETH MILLER, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation: Use of Spanish in Head Start and Dual Language Learners' Academic Achievement: A Mixed-Methods Study
Degree Awarded: June 10, 2016
ILONA MISSAKIAN, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: Perceptions of Writing Centers in the Community College: Ways that Students, Tutors, and Instructors Concur and Diverge
Degree Awarded: September 9, 2015
SHAFEE MOHAMMED, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Getting them ready: Predicting Learning Behavior Using A Unified Framework: Looking Beyond the Clicks
Degree Awarded: September 9, 2020
JANE NAZZAL, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology & Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation: Writing Proficiency and Student Placement in Community College Composition Courses
Degree Awarded: September 9, 2020
VERONICA NEWHART, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: Are they Present?: Homebound Children with Chronic Illness in our Schools and use of Telepresence Robots to Reach Them
Degree Awarded: June 15, 2018
TUTRANG NGUYEN, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation Title: Promoting School Readiness with Preschool Curricula
Degree Awarded: September 12, 2018
WENDY OCHOA, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Teaching, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Mobile Screen Technologies and Parents of Young Children: Investigating Diverse Parents’ Attitudes, Beliefs, and Their Interactions with Children
Degree Awarded: September 11, 2019
JESSICA OVIATT, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Teaching, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Getting Them Ready: The Descriptive Nature of Parental Beliefs, Values, and Behaviors Around Supporting the Development of Health-Related Skills in Adolescents with Cystic Fibrosis
Degree Awarded: June 12, 2020
MARIA PARENTE, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation: A Person-Context Assessment of the Prevalence and Associated Social-Academic Outcomes of Self-Care for Children and Adolescents
Degree Awarded: March 23, 2012
YOUNGMIN PARK, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: Technology-Enhanced L2 Reading: The Effects of Hierarchical Phrase Segmentation
Degree Awarded: June 10, 2016
EMILY PENNER, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation: Teaching For All? Variation in the Effects of Teach For America
Degree Awarded: September 10, 2014
PAUL RAMA, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: L2 Learning via World of Warcraft
Degree Awarded: December 19, 2014
LYNN REIMER, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development:
Dissertation: The Stem Lecture Hall: A Study of Effective Instructional Practices for Diverse Learners
Degree Awarded: June 16, 2017
MARCELA REYES, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation: Language Classification and its Consequences for English Language Learners in Diverse Middle Schools
Degree Awarded: December 9, 2016
TEOMARA RUTHERFORD, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Calibration of Confidence Judgments in Elementary Mathematics: Measurement, Development, and Improvement
Degree Awarded: December 19, 2014
ERIK RUZEK, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation: Student Motivation and Academic Achievement: An Examination of How and Why Middle School Teachers Matter
Degree Awarded: September 12, 2012
NAYSSAN SAFAVIAN, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Examining the Impact of Motivation on Achievement and Course-Taking Behavior of Low-Income Minority Youth
Degree Awarded: December 13, 2013
KATERINA SCHENKE, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Understanding Mathematics Classroom Instruction Through Students and Teachers
Degree Awarded: September 9, 2015
LAUREN SHEA, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: Talking to Learn: A Mixed-Methods Study of a Professional Development Program for Teachers of English Language Learners
Degree Awarded: June 15, 2012
ADAM SHEPPARD, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation: Informing After-School Practices: Towards An Understanding Of How Site Directors Utilize Information To Do What They Do
Degree Awarded; June 13, 2014
RAHILA MUNSHI SIMZAR, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Understanding Student Motivation and Affect in Middle School Mathematics Classrooms: Links with Algebra Course Placement and Achievement
Degree Awarded: June 10, 2015
SABRINA SOLANKI, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation: Three Essays about Higher Education Programs and Policies to Support Student Success
Degree Awarded: September 11, 2019
CHRISTOPHER STILLWELL, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Teaching, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Active Learning for International Student Users of English as a Second Language: Help or Hindrance?
Degree Awarded: June 15, 2018
RACHEL STUMPF, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: "Ready to Transition"? Writing Across High School and College Contexts
Degree Awarded: September 12, 2018
JENNIFER SUN, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Mathematics Teacher Identity in the Context of Mathematics Reform: Elementary Teacher Experiences
Degree Awarded: September 13, 2017
TAMARA TATE, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: Prior Technology Exposure, Keyboard/Mouse Activity, and Writing Achievement: Analysis of the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress Writing Assessment
Degree Awarded: June 15, 2018
KAREN TAYLOR, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: Academic Language Features in the Argumentative Writing of Second Through Eighth Grade Students
Deegree Awarded: September 11, 2019
CATHY TRAN, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Designing for Productive Persistence
Degree Awarded: December 11, 2015
NANCY TSAI, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Teaching, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Stress & Executive Control: Mediation & Moderation
Degree Awarded: September 12, 2018
NESTOR TULAGAN, Ph.D.
Specialization: Human Development in Context
Dissertation: The Family Socialization and Stage-Environment Fit of African-American Adolescents' Academic and Recreational Talent Development
Degree Awarded: September 9, 2020
JESSICA TUNNEY, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Confronting Local Manifestations of Historical Problems in Field Experience: A Model of Professional Development for Teacher Education Petitioners
Degree Awarded: June 10, 2016
OSMAN UMARJI, Ph.D.
Specialization: Human Development in Context
Dissertation: Classification of Motivational Disposition: A Psychological Systems Perspective of Academic Behavior
Degree Awarded: September 11, 2019
FEMI VANCE, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation: Adolescents' Skill-Building and Retention in a High Quality After-School Program
Degree Awarded: June 15, 2012
VIET VU, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: Documenting Instructional Practices in Large Introductory Stem Lecture Courses
Degree Awarded: September 13, 2017
WEI WANG, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation: Initial Language Status and Achievement Trajectories Among Hispanic Students: Mediation Through Executive Function
Degree Awarded: December 15, 2017
TYLER WATTS, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Context:
Dissertation: Academic Skills and Long-Run Outcomes
Degree Awarded: June 16, 2017
DALE WEBSTER, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Vocabulary Acquisition for English Learners and its Relationship to Reading Comprehension
Degree Awarded: December 14, 2012
CHENOA WOODS, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation: Patches in the Leaky Pipeline: The Influences of School Contexts on Students’ College Preparation and Choice
Degree Awarded: December 19, 2014
YING XU, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: Learning with Conversational Agents
Degree Awarded: December 18, 2020
QINGQING YANG, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Youth's Bidirectional Socialization of Importance Beliefs by Parents
Degree Awarded: September 9, 2020
JOANNA YAU, Ph.D.
Specialization: Human Development in Context
Dissertation: The Benefits of Text Messaging on Wellbeing for Young Adults and Early Adolescents
Degree Awarded: June 14, 2019
CATHERY YEH, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Mathematics, Language, and Learning; A Longitudinal Study of Elementary Teachers and Their Mathematics Teaching Practices
Degree Awarded: June 10, 2016
SOOBIN YIM, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: Digital Literacy in Academic Settings: Synchronous Collaborative Writing Among Linguistically Diverse Students
Degree Awarded: September 13, 2017
NEIL YOUNG, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Teaching, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: Conceptual Change About People
Degree Awarded: June 15, 2018
SARA YOUNG, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation: Special Education Advocacy: Dispute Resolution in Three Districts
Degree Awarded: December 15, 2017
ALMA ZARAGOZA-PETTY, Ph.D.
Specialization: Educational Policy and Social Context
Dissertation: For-Profit Alternative Programs and Schools of Choice; Structuring Safety and College-for-All in an Era of Market-Based School Reform
Degree Awarded: June 10, 2016
BINBIN ZHENG, Ph.D.
Specialization: Language, Literacy, & Technology
Dissertation: Social Media and Classroom Writing: Participation, Interaction, and Collaboration
Degree Awarded: December 13, 2013
DORON ZINGER, Ph.D.
Specialization: Learning, Teaching, Cognition, and Development
Dissertation: The Realities and Possibilities of Fast-Tracked Teacher Preparation: A Longitudinal Case Study of Alternatively Certified Teachers’ Learning and Instruction
Degree Awarded: September 12, 2018
