PhD About the Program
PhD Course Requirements
Course Prerequisite Methodology Courses = 8 units
EDU 114, Quantitative Methods in Educational Research, 4
units
EDU 200, Educational Research, 4 units
Professional Induction Course = 4 units
EDU 291, Professional Seminar in Education, 4 units
Methodological Core Courses = 8 units
EDU 201, Survey of Qualitative Methods, 4 units
EDU 204A, Quantitative Methods in Educational Research: Analysis
of Correlation and Design, 4 units
PhD Timeline and Milestones
There is no specific length of time associated with earning a PhD. Across disciplines and campuses, the average amount of time to earn the degree is between four and five years, although individual time varies widely.
PhD Advising & Mentoring
Each student in the program works with a graduate advisor, a faculty advisor, and a major professor.
PhD Mentoring Guidelines
Mentoring of graduate students by faculty is an integral part of the graduate experience.
Ph.D. Program in Education
Mentoring Guidelines
Updated & Revised by Ph.D. Policy Committee, 10/15/07
Adopted by vote of the faculty, Date 10/23/07
GGE Research Seminar Schedule
The GGE offers a weekly research seminar featuring our faculty, students, and other speakers. We invite our community to participate in these seminars.
Recorded sessions are added to the PhD Academic Programs Video website as they become available, and also linked below. Speakers from past quarters can be found here as well.
- Winter 2022 GGE Research Seminar Schedule
- Spring 2021 GGE Research Seminar Flyer
- Winter 2021 GGE Research Seminar Flyer
- Fall 2020 GGE Research Seminar Flyer
- Fall 2019 GGE Research Seminar Schedule
- Spring 2019 GGE Research Seminar Schedule
- Winter 2019 GGE Research Seminar Schedule
- Fall 2018 GGE Research Seminar Schedule
- Spring 2018 GGE Research Seminar Schedule
- Winter 2018 GGE Research Seminar Schedule
- Fall 2017 GGE Research Seminar Schedule
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2020 Graduates
Minahil Asim
How Effective are Education Programs and Policies in
Improving Access and Learning for Disadvantaged Students?
Evidence from Three Disparate Contexts
BernNadette Best-Green
Reframing Broken English as Counterhegemonic Linguistic Drip:
Investigating Ethnolinguistic Vitality Within My 6th Grade
Classroom
Kayce Mastrup
Storied Identities: Exploring the Beliefs, Values and Past
Experiences of Preservice Mathematics Educators and
Future-Oriented Practice
2019 Graduates
Sagit Betser
Under construction: identity development in a girls-only
maker program
Erin Bird
Driven by Data?: Youth Learning Science for Environmental and
Civic Action through Community and Citizen Science
JaNay Brown-Wood
Is there a relationship between the race of a character and
the story children tell: Exploring if the race of a picture book
character is associated with narrative quality of children’s
stores and books preference?
2018 Graduates
Bahareh Abhari
College readiness validation of common core standards in
mathematics
Kristine Calvo
Changing Pedagogies: Teacher Identity in the Context of
Technology Leveraged Classrooms
Orlando Carreon
Effective teaching of Chican@/Latin@ students: a community
responsive approach
Amanda Crump
Dialogue in an international agricultural development
introductory course
Financial Support
The Graduate Group in Education is committed to offering financial support to our PhD students for at least four years of study through employment and/or fellowships that include a monthly salary/stipend and fee remission.
Maximus Sefotho Presents “The Philosophy of Botho/Ubunto in Research”
On May 2, 2022, the UC Davis School of Education/Graduate Group in Education Research Seminar Series featured professor of educational psychology Dr. Maximus Sefotho of the University of Johannesburg presenting “The Philosophy of Botho/Ubuntu in Research!” In it, Dr. Sefotho explores how the philosophy of ubuntu, or a form of African humanism, can help inform more inclusive research.
Darnel Degand Presents “Advanced Illustration Ability Not Required: Undergraduate Students’ Experiences with Comics Essays in an Education”
On May 23, 2022, the UC Davis School of Education/Graduate Group in Education Research Seminar Series featured Prof. Darnel Degand presenting “Advanced Illustration Ability Not Required: Undergraduate Students’ Experiences with Comics Essays in an Education.”
Ambar Hernandez Negrete Presents “They Don’t Value Us as Human Beings”
On April 18, 2022, the UC Davis School of Education/Graduate Group in Education Research Seminar Series featured PhD student Ambar Hernandez Negrete presenting “‘They Don’t Value Us as Human Beings’: Centering Students in Policy Research and Processes.”
