Doctoral Dissertations from the Doctor of Education in Teaching & Learning Program
Luz M. Chung (2006). Second language learning as empowerment: Adult Latino immigrants as students, teachers, and problem solvers.
Advisor: Ana Celia Zentella
Daniel
Allen Cohen (2009). Relationships that create confidence: Understanding postsecondary academic choices of Mexican heritage high school graduates in light of influential relationships, self-efficacy, and mathematical experiences.
Advisor: Claire Ramsey
Krysti
Robinson DeZonia (2008). Formulating their future: Transition to adulthood for students with profound disabilities.
Advisor: Alison Wishard Guerra
Kimberlee Ann Douillard (2006). Examining the teaching and learning of writing in elementary school.
Advisor: Hugh Mehan
Barbara Edwards (2007). Reforming a middle school for educational equity: Implications for teacher interaction.
Advisor: Paula Levin
Cheryl A. Forbes (2008).
Agency, identity and power: Bilingual Mexican American
children and their teachers talk about learning English in school.
Advisor: Paula Levin
Christopher P. Halter (2006). The reflective lens:
The effects of video analysis on preservice teacher development.
Advisor: Randall Souviney
Michael Hargrove (2007). High schools that bridge the achievement gap.
Advisor: Alison Wishard Guerra
Melissa Pia Herzig
(2009). Understanding the motivation of Deaf adolescent Latino struggling readers. (PDF
file in protected folder).
Advisor: Claire Ramsey
Kathryn Leimomi
Kailikole (2009). Meaning
making in a college mathematics lecture format: The intersection of mathematics,
language, and cultural meaning systems. (PDF
file in a protected folder)
Advisor: Barbara Sawrey
Heather Lattimer (2006). Choosing to teach: Lessons from the lives of effective urban teachers.
Advisor: Hugh Mehan
Season Shelly Mussey (2009). Navigating the transition to college: First-generation undergraduates negotiate identities and search for success in STEM and non-STEM fields.
Advisor: Hugh Mehan
Joanne Kirkpatrick Price (2007). Making sense of competing organizational goals: Perspectives of practice that affect coordinated efforts and organizational learning.
Advisor: Paula Levin
Susan Michelle Scharton (2007). What it means to be an elementary mathematics teacher: Changing practices and understandings over the course of preservice professional development.
Advisor: Claire Ramsey
Marcia DeVore Sewall (2007). Transforming supervision: Using video elicitation to support preservice teacher-directed reflective conversations.
Advisor: Tom Humphries
