PhD Alumni
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
2017 Graduates
Leslie Banes
“Explain your answer”: mathematical writing in linguistically
diverse classrooms
Angelica Cortes
The Experiences and Studying Practices of Community College
Latin@ STEM Majors Taking Calculus I
Candice Guy-Gaytán
“Model-Based Reasoning is Not a Simple Thing”: Investigating
Enactment of Modeling in Five High School Biology Classrooms
2016 Graduates
James Fabionar Jr.
Operationalizing youth assets in a community change
initiative : a social cognitive perspective
Elizabeth Friedmann
Addressing disparities in postsecondary success : the role of
need-based financial aid
Mariama Gray
Saving the Lost Boys: Narratives of Discipline
Disproportionality
2015 graduates
Lisceth Brazil-Cruz
From high school to college : parenting practices of Latino
first-generation college students
Rosalyn Earl
Exploring experiences of women of color doctoral scholars at
the University of California : deconstructing intersectionalities
of race, class, and gendered microaggressions
Michelle Roppeau
Impact of sport discontinuation on the experience and
identity of first-generation and non-first-generation NCAA
division I wrestlers
2014 graduates
Julie Orozco
Developing a Vision for Mathematics Instruction: Using
Self-collected/Self-selected Video Clips in the Context of
Mathematics Teacher Professional Development
Luis Restrepo
The moral career of the student athlete : negotiating
difference and exploring identity
Scot Sutherland
Constraint-referenced analytics of algebra learning in
classroom network contexts
2013 graduates
Cathleen Alexander
Community college developmental education students’
understanding of foundational fraction concepts
Diane Harkins
Coaching in the context of social-emotional development :
implications for targeted early childhood professional
development
Lisa Bennett
From Preservice to Inservice: The Development of Inquiry
Stance
2012 Graduates
Emily Evans
Learning connections, children’s perceptions, and the role of
place in water education
Mary Gwaltney
Effects of IQ, Memory and ADHD Symptoms on Achievement in
Students with High Functioning Autism
Lola Muldrew
The Meaning of Adversity Within Traditional K-12 Math
Classrooms in the United States from the Perspective if
African-American Individuals
2011 graduates
Shonte Stephenson
Matthew Wallace
Developing assessment practices a study of the experiecnes
and perservice mathematics teachers as learners and the evolition
of their assessment practices as educators
Sumer Seiki
Irina Okhremtchouk
Michael Lawson
The Effects of Student Engagement on Educational
Attainment
2010 graduates
Kevin Lai
Exploring Quadrilaterals in a Collaborative Computing
Environment
Cassandra Hawley
How beginning secondary teachers understand and enact
academic literacies in their classrooms : a qualitative
multi-case study
Rim Zahra
Animating the Grotesque in Depression America: A Cultural
Analysis of Walt Disney’s Early Mickey Mouse Cartoons
Razzan Zahra
Disney Wishes: Reimagining Disney through the Eyes of
Make-A-Wish Children
2009 Graduates
Damian Parr
Student farmer-to-farmer: transformational learning in
sustainable agriculture and food systems education
Amy Belcastro
Purposeful Persistence: First Generation College Student
Success
Sheryl Hurner
Robotics as science (re)form exploring power, learning and
gender(ed) identity formation in a “commnity of practice”
2008 Graduates
Susan Porter
A Literacy Response-to-Intervention for Two Middle School
English Learners: The Role of Student-Teacher Interactions,
Self-Efficacy, and Cognitive Processing
Melissa Salzar
Bodies in place, bodies in motion: Images of immigrant youth
negotiating food, location and identity
Lawrence Hovrath
Tangled up in iquiry: docmenting pre-service science
teacher’s perspectives on iquiry as they reflect on the process
of planning and teaching inquiry-based lessons
2007 Graduates
Garrett Kenehan
On Students’ Thinking about the Concept of Function while
Using Technology in Context: A Design Experiment
Sandra Mercuri
The challenge of developing academic language in spanish and
english through science: The case of two teachers’ strategic
teaching practices
Emily Prieto
Situational sexuality paradigm: An examination of male
heterosexual sexual preference and attitudes and the impact on
sexual negotiation on female sex workers in Tijuana, Mexico
2006 Graduates
Allan Bellman
Teaching in a Networked Environment: Catalyst for a Novice
Teacher’s use of Formative Assessment
Susan Campbell
Socially Constructing Perspectives: How Fifth Grade Students
Express Sociocultural and Critical Historical Perspectives
Pauline Holmes
Academic literacy in the literature classroom: investigating
instructional decisions of new teachers of English Learners
2005 Graduates
Bruce McVicker
Doing Technology: A Case Study of Middle School Teachers
Defining a Perspective for Working and Learning
Kandace Knudsen
Community college freshman compositon instructors’ choices of
readings: the importance of context
Whitney Donnelly
Standards or standardization?: Problem solving and control at
two elementary schools
Michele Favreau-Haight
2004 Graduates
Elizabeth Mukiibi
What do you Expect from This School: A Student Focused
Inquity into Factors Affecting African American Adolescent
Schoolgirls’ Academic Achievement in an Urban School
Setting.
Carmina Feldman
Teacher beliefs and teaching with computers : believe it or
not : a case study of the role beliefs play in three middle
school teachers’ use of computers in teaching science
2003 Graduates
Timothy Larrabee
Out(standing) in high school: One youth’s story
Rebecca Callahan
Opportunity to learn in a California High School: track
placement and English Learners
Ann Go
The writing development of Chinese and Vietnamese newcomer
students
Jennifer Grimes
The role of the brain’s right hemisphere in comprehending
spatially oriented text
2002 Graduates
Sarah Nielson
Josh’s worlds: Developing literacy skills at home and at
school
Alicia Valero
Emergent literacy development among Latino students in a
rural preschool classroom
Dorine Waidtlow
Transition to work and vocational identity among lower income
young adults
Katherine Bruna
Manufacturing dissent: The new economy of power relations in
multicultural teacher education
2001 Graduates
Larry Boese
The case for preventing reading disabilities and its
implications for general-education and special-education
reform
Suzy Thomas
Beginning high school counselors: A qualitative study of
professional socialization and role issues
Carmina Brittain
Transnational messages: The diffusion of information about
American schools in transnational social spaces among Chinese and
Mexican immigrant adolescents
