Alumni/Dissertations
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International Studies in Education
By integrating international perspectives into its teaching, research and public service, the College of Education seeks a comparative understanding of educational policies, institutions and practices. The goal is to find ways to enhance the learning of children, teachers, and other adults in the United States while contributing to the worldwide effort of educators to meet the economic, environmental, social, cultural and political challenges of our time
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1989 DaeBong Kwon (Korea)
Microcomputer application training and adult self-esteem development
in an education/ business partnership setting in Michigan
Ph.D. in Adult and Continuing Education
1989 Ohkee Lee (Korea)
Motivation to learn science in middle school classrooms
Ph.D. in Educational Psychology
1989 Bong-Chaeng Quek (Malaysia)
An alternative way of estimating test item statistics for test
development in Malaysia
Ph.D. in Measurement, Evaluation & Research Design
1990 Alejandro Jose Gallard Martinez (Costa Rica)
Influence of ministry policies on science teaching practices in
Costa Rica
Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction
1991 Malik Elkhair Balla (Sudan)
The prospect of Sudanese institutions of higher education changing
the language of instruction from English to Arabic, in light of the Syrian
experience
Ph.D. in College and University Administration
1991 Diane VanBelle Prouty (USA)
From the outside looking in: Women and education in Francophone,
Central Africa
Ph.D. in Curriculum, Teaching and Educational Policy |
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1992
Edson Pacho de Almeida (Brazil)
The decision-making process and
innovation in the creation of a Brazilian university: A historical case
study
Ph.D in College and University Administration
1992 Joshua Gisemba Bagaka's (Kenya)
Two level nested hierarchical linear model with random intercepts
via the bootstrap
Ph.D in Measurement and Quantitative Methods
1992 Myong-Ye Bang (Korea)
Factors related to the use of instructional strategies that facilitate
inclusion of students with moderate and severe impairments in general
education classes
Ph.D in Special Education
1992 Lin Chang (USA)
A power analysis of the test of homogeneity in effect-size meta-analysis
Ph.D in Measurement, Evaluation & Research Design
1992 Jin Xiao (China)
The effects of organizational factors on the transfer of training:
A study of fpur electronic industrial companies in Shenzhen Special Economic
Zone, China
Ph.D. in Adult and Continuing Education
1992 Ivan Douglas Filmer, Jr. (Malaysia)
An ordering theoretic analysis of the Sato caution indices in
a Malaysian context
Ph.D. in Measurement and Quantitative Methods |
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1992
Mohamed Abdulla Kamali (United Arab Emeritus)
A study of single- and multi-level logistic regression models
using real and computer simulated data
Ph.D. in Measurement, Evaluation & Research Design
1992 Sang-Jin Kang (Korea)
A mixed linear model with two-way crossed random effects and estimation
via the EM algorithm
Ph.D. in Measurement, Evaluation & Research Design
1993 Fantaye Mekbeb (Ethiopia)
Assessment of the teaching effectiveness of community health agents
with regard to diarrheal disease prevention and treatment in Ethiopia
Ph.D. in Adult and Continuing Education
1992 Issumael Nzamutuma (Rwanda)
Family background and student achievement: a consideration of
finacial, human, and social capital in the context of Rwanda
Ph.D. in College and University Administration
1994 Maria Bellini Alves Monteiro (Brazil)
Mathematical knowledge and individual experience: A study of children's
mathematical learning with third graders in Brazil
Ph.D. in Curriculum, Teaching and Educational Policy
1994 Roberto Alves Monteiro (Brazil)
Believers and skeptics: A study of science and mathematical teachers'
participation in the restructuring of their workplace
Ph.D. in Curriculum, Teaching and Educational Policy |
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1994
Albert Natsa (Zimbabwe)
An investigation of secondary school language teachers' conceptions
of literacy and how these conceptions relate to literacy instruction in
Zimbabwe
Ph.D. in Curriculum, Teaching and Educational Policy
1994 Noelette
N. Nduna-Watson (South Africa)
Contextual factors and constraints that influence Black teachers
in South Africa when implementing the curriculum: A case of geographic
teachers
Ph.D. in Curriculum, Teaching and Educational Policy
1994 Josephine
Karuvunika P. Zesaguli (Zimbabwe)
Teacher education and A-Level biology teaching: A description
and evaluation of the Zimbabwe Science Teacher Training (ZIMSTT) Program
Ph.D. in Curriculum, Teaching and Educational Policy
1995 Olga M Bonfiglio (USA)
Internationalizing the undergraduate curriculum: A qualitative study
of students' images and experiences of the world
Ph.D. in Curriculum, Teaching and Educational Policy
1995
Wing Shing Chan (China)
Toward a multilevel generalized linear model: The case for Poisson
distributed data
Ph.D. in Measurement and Quantitative
Methods
1995 Martial Dembele (Burkina Faso)
Mentors and mentoring: Frames for action, ways of acting, and
consequences for novice teachers' learning
Ph.D. in Curriculum, Teaching and Educational Policy |
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1995
Yeong-Ming Jong (Taiwan)
The effects of using computers as a tool for promoting achievement
and interest for American-born Chinese children's learning Chinese as a
second language
Ph.D. in Educational Systems Development
1995
Norhayati Abd Mukti (Malaysia)
Factors related to teacher use of computer technology in Malaysia
Ph.D. in Educational Systems Development
1995 Shirley Jean Miske (USA)
Center in the margins: The development of women's studies in a
Thai university from three organizational perspectives
Ph.D. in Curriculum, Teaching and
Educational Policy
1996 Inkyung Lee (Korea)
How medical students adapt learning strategies to problem-based
learning
Ph.D. in Educational Psychology
1996 Seounghee Choi (Korea)
Factors related to the collaborative use of computer-mediated
communication in a graduate community: A study of electronic mail
Ph.D. in Educational Systems Development
1996 Voon-Mooi Choo (Malaysia)
Teachers in transition: first-year teachers' perceptions of the
contributions of collegiality to their growth
Ph.D. in Curriculum, Teaching and Educational Policy
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1996
Perciles Varella Gomes (Brazil)
Usability feedback in education software prototypes: A contrast
of users and experts
Ph.D. in Educational Systems Development
1996
Martha Hawkins Germain (USA)
Worldly teachers: Cultural learning and pedagogy
Ph.D. in Curriculum, Teaching and Educational Policy
1996 Jean Weiqin Yan (China)
Examining local item dependence effects in a large scale science
assessment by a Rasch partial credit model
Ph.D. in Measurement and Quantitative Methods
1997 Neli Wolf (Israel)
Learning to teach mathematics for understanding: A case of a student
teacher in a professional development school
Ph.D. in Curriculum, Teaching and Educational Policy
1997 Anne M. N. Mungai (Kenya)
An investigation of the study habits of female students (high
and low schievers) in rural primary schools in Murang's district Kenya
Ph.D. in Special Education
1997 Zongyi Deng (China)
The nature of key ideas in teaching high school physics: Three
topics in optics, color, the speed of light, and light interference
Ph.D. in Curriculum, Teaching and Educational Policy |
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1997
Marie Mayoya (Burundi)
Direct private costs and access to secondary schooling in Burundi
Ph.D. in K-12 Educational Administration
1998 Paul Conway (Ireland)
Anticipatory
reflection while learning to teach: The role of hope, fear and expectation
Ph.D. in Educational Psychology
1998
Jian Wang (China)
Learning to teach mathematics: Preservice teachers, their collaborating
teachers and instructional contexts
Ph.D. in Curriculum Teaching and Educational Policy
1998 Hanaa R. Gomaa (Palestine)
The enchantment loom: School psychologists construct their professional
roles and identities
Ph.D. in School Psychology
1998 Rajendran Nagappan (Malaysia)
Teaching Higher-Order Thinking Skills in Language Classrooms:
The Need for Transformation of Teaching Practice
Ph.D. in Curriculum Teaching and Educational Policy
1999 Kedmon Nyasha Hungwe (Zimbabwe)
Becoming a machinist in a changing industry
Ph.D. in Educational Psychology
1999 Suseela Malakolunthu (Malaysia)
Creating supportive work climates for teachers in an era of reform:
Case studies of two Malaysian principals and the contexts in which they
work
Ph.D. in Curriculum, Teaching and Educational Policy
1999 Shannon R. Siegel (USA)
Patterns of Sport Participation and Physical Activity in Urban
Mexican Youth
Ph.D. in Kinesiology |
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2000 Ailing Kong (China)
The road to participation: The evolution of a literary community
in an intermediate grade classroom of linguistically diverse learners
Ph.D. in Educational Psychology
2000 Scott Johnston (USA)
Resource Teachers in Zimbabwe:
the challenges of becoming a teacher leader while trying to change one's
own beliefs and practice
Ph.D. in Curriculum, Teaching and Educational Policy
2000 Loukia K. Sarroub (USA)
Becoming American, remaining Arab: How the "Hijabat"
negotiate life in two worlds
Ph.D. in Curriculum, Teaching and Educational Policy
2001 Elena Papanastasiou (Cyprus)
A 'rearrangement procedure'
for administering adaptie tests when review options are permitted
Ph.D. in Measurement and Quantitative
Methods
2001 Apipa Prachyapruit (Thailand)
Socialization of new faculty at a public university in Thailand
Ph.D. in Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education
2001 Matheos Yosef (Ethiopia)
A comparison of alternative approximations to ML estimation for
Hierarchical Generalized Linear Models: The Logistic-Normal Model Case
Ph.D. in Measurement
and Quantitative Methods |
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