Students in the UC Davis Ph.D. in Education program explore the breadth of the field of education, including how students learn and thrive, how educators and communities support them, and how schools, colleges and policies shape educational opportunity. Their dissertations address a wide range of topics, including:

• College access, transfer pathways and student success
• Bilingual and multilingual education, language development and literacy
• Educational equity, race, culture and student identity
• Teacher preparation, professional learning and classroom practice
• Mathematics, science and STEM learning
• Learning and support for neurodiverse students
• Student well-being, relationships, engagement and belonging
• Assessment, placement and measurement of learning
• Education policy, institutions and resources
• Youth learning in community and out-of-school settings

2025 Graduates

Emily Alonso
Exploring Work-Based Learning in California Community Colleges

Vigdis Asmundson
An Analysis of the Relationship Between School-Based Health Centers and Student Outcomes

Audrey Boochever
Expanding Access and Advancing Equity: Evidence from Dual Enrollment, Career and Technical Education, and Teacher-Student Ethnoracial Matching

Analisa Brown
#ThrivingInScienceWhileBlack: Stories of Black Students who Thrive while Pursuing Science Degrees

Maria Belen Buttiler
From Preschool to Elementary: Immigrant Parents Acculturation and Children’s Bilingual and Social-Emotional Skills

Elizabeth Castro
Latina bilingual paraeducators as sociocultural mediators of language & literacies: In accompaniment with bi/multilingual youth

Hessam Ghanimi
Applying Kolb’s Experiential Learning Theory to Clay-based Modeling in Undergraduate Functional Anatomy Education

Sombo Koo
On the Structure of Instrumental, Expressive, and Ideational Peer Networks and Implications for Social Justice Educators

Jade Lee
Online Exam Proctoring in Higher Education: A Critical Analysis of Students and Instructors Processes and Perspectives

Mikenna Modesto
Student Experiences with Contract Grading Across the University Writing Program Pathways

Chamee Moua
HMong College Students as Creative Agents of Change Through a Youth Conference

Valeria Romero
Vamos a Pl·ticar: Examining Belonging to Affirm and Value the Personhoods of Women of Color in Informal Science Education

Sydney Sullivan
Critical Media Literacy and Well-Being in Education: Frameworks, Practices, and Futures for Digital Minds

Silvia Tovar
Perspectives on Carcerality: Teacher Discourse and Youth Voices

Johanna Vega Garcia
Examining Teachers’ Affect and Student-Teacher Relationship Quality Among Neurodiverse TK–5th Grade Children in General Education Classrooms

2024 Graduates

Sandy Birkeneder
Joint Attention, Relationship Quality, and Reading Outcomes in School-Aged Autistic Children within General Education Classrooms

Jennifer Burke Reifman
Power, positioning, and participation: Community- based watershed monitoring as a catalyst for learning and literacy toward socioecological transformation

Araceli Gonzalez
Algo es algo: Mexican (Im)migrant Mothers Rearticulating the Material and Ideological Conditions Shaping the San Joaquin Valley School-to-Farmwork Pipeline

Justin Luu
Postsecondary Pathways in California: An Examination of Policies and Practices to Improve College/Career Readiness

Emily Mak
Supporting Oral Language in Low-Income Immigrant Dual Language Learning Preschoolers: Home Literacy Environment and Shared Book Reading

Kaitlyn Murray
When You Can’t Say It Aloud: Queer Youth Resilience in Agricultural Education

Mayra Nunez Martinez
Exploring Latinx college transitions: Insights into undocu-transfer receptivity, parental support, and geography of transfer

Susan Rowe
Examining the Effects of Linguistic Complexity on Emergent Bilinguals’ Academic Content Performance

Sabina Simon
A Portrait of a Community College Post A.B. 705: Investigating Ideologies of Key Stakeholders at a Local Community College

Laurel Towers
Emotional Regulation in Autistic and Non-Autistic School-Aged Children

2023 Graduates

Alicia Bencomo Garcia
Serving Latina/o/x Undergraduates Through Graduation: An Examination of Organizational Retention Structures at Hispanic Serving Institutions

Chris Jadallah
Power, positioning, and participation: Community- based watershed monitoring as a catalyst for learning and literacy toward socioecological transformation

Mayu Lindblad
Chinese-English and Spanish-English Dual Language Learners? Bilingual Narrative Skills

2022 Graduates

Elizabeth Flores
Latinx Student Experiences With Assessment and Placement at Community College

Amanda Lindell
Environmental Science Identity & Learning Ecosystems for City Youth: The Role of People, Places, and Activities

Robert Linden
Financial Incentives for California Community Colleges: Impacts on District Revenue, Student Financial Aid Receipt, and Degree Production

Yanira Madrigal-Garcia
Revealing Colonial Schooling: Rejecting Racialized Norms of School Reputation and Student Worth Via Youth and Teacher Resistance

Joanna Mathias
Dual Enrollment and Career and Technical Education in California: Participation, Access, and College and Career Readiness under Common Core and Multiple Measures Accountability

Kaozong Mouavangsou
A Critical Ethnography of Hmong American Students Navigating and Transforming Their University

Ambar Hernandez Negrete
Race Neutral Policies as Racist Policies: Toward a Student-Centered Critical Race Policy Analysis

Diana Recouvreur
Building Pathways in California’s Corrections to Education Pipeline: Striving Towards Sustainability at California Community Colleges

Sergio Sanchez
Arts Integration Across Subjects and Grades: Early-Career Teachers? Uses of Drama-Based Pedagogy Practices in Diverse Classrooms

Michael Stevens
Collaborative Interactions of Secondary Mathematics Student Groups Using a Distributed Technological Environment

Stacy Wittstock
Reflections in Funhouse Mirrors: Using Institutional Ethnography to Understand Constructions of? Remediation? in a Basic Writing Program

Fei Xue
Learning Through Immersive Visualization

2021 Graduates

David Earwicker
Asymmetric Expectations: Faculty Research Roles Under California’s Master Plan for Higher Education

Danielle Hagood
How University Instructors See Student Engagement and Risk Status: Constructing Definitions with Information from Instructional Practices and Learning Management Systems

Alexandria Hurtt
Access and Equity in California Schools: Three Investigations on the Distribution of School Inputs

Adam Musser
Toward What Freedom? Youth Literacies and Knowledges in a Carceral State

Sara Pierner
Equity in education: High school FAFSA submission rates and California community colleges’ equity activities

Anna Marie Ramos
Advancing Colleges? Connections to Local Communities: A Case Study on Higher Education’s Role In California’s Housing Crisis

Vanessa Segundo
Creating Ecosystems to Reimagine Latinx Student Success: Historicizing Latinx Cultural Centers in Higher Education

Marjorie Westervelt
Understanding Faculty Assessment Decisions of Medical Student Clinical Reasoning Ability

Jackson Yan
Where do Community College Students want to Transfer to?: Essays Examining College Choice for Community College Transfer Students

2020 Graduates

Yvonne Allen
Latina/o First Generation Community College Students from Rural Backgrounds: How Their Rural Experiences Impact Their Transition to and Success in Higher Education

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

Claudia Escobar
An Exploration of Student Learning Experiences at a Broad-access Institution: Evidence on Student Motivation, Learning Environments, and Course Outcomes

Kayce Mastrup
Storied Identities: Exploring the Beliefs, Values and Past Experiences of Preservice Mathematics Educators and Future-Oriented Practice

Dennis Quinn
Passion, Compassion, and Professionalization: A Digital Ethnography of Online Professional Development for Faculty Teaching Writing-Intensive Courses

Lu Yang
Language learning motivation and foreign language achievement: A study on upper elementary English learners in China 

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?

David Coad
Teaching rhetorical strategies through social media: a qualitative study of FYC instructors and students

Derek Dockter
Student Persistence in Undergraduate STEM: Exploring the Impact of Preparatory Courses on Student Experience, Motivation, and Identity

Alyssa Henry
A School-Based Pilot Study of an Intervention Targeting Early Reading and Language Development for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Michael Hill
Nontraditional and the New Normal: Three Studies on Nontraditional Student Pathways in Higher Education

Aaron Lanser
Community and Identity in the Academic Borderlands; Digitals Underlife Among First Generation College Student Writers

Carolina Ramirez
First-Year Experiences Among Undergraduates at a Broad-Access Baccalaureate

Aubrey Uresti
“There’s More to Me Than What You See.” How Adolescents Conceptualize Parental Incarceration in their Day-to-Day Lives 

Frank Wada
Improving Undergraduate Time-to-Degree:  The Efforts at One Public Research University

Michele Zugnoni
Encouraging empowerment through expression : creation of a self-reflective writing group for first-generation college students

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 

Colin Dixon
Making Learning Work: A multi-site study of how young people shape learning within productive youth-based organizations 

Lisa Hardy
Discourse and reasoning in networked physics classrooms

WenYen Huang
Integrating Educational Technology: A Study of Secondary Preservice Mathematics Teachers

Roxanne Rashedi
An Early Childhood Education in Embodiment: Willful forms of self-regulation in a classroom-based yoga intervention

Rachel Restani
Exploring student voice in a high school mathematics classroom – empowering strategies for marginalized students

Matthew Zajic
Assessing Attention and Engagement During Writing in High-Functioning, School-Age Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder or Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

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

Emily Mae Harris
Examining teacher framing, student reasoning, and student agency in school-based citizen science

Kendon Kurzer
Writing in Undergraduate Economics Courses: Departmental Practices and Multilingual Student Challenges

Lindsay Lerro
The impact of auditory processing abilities on academic achievement in students with high functioning autism spectrum disorder and ADHD

Kenya Mitchell
Writing at the Crossroads: reflections on authentic voice, student diversity, and vocalizing in diverse contexts

Manuel Senna
Variations in support for second language writers: lessons from top international student destinations

Laura Shafer
Professional Development in a Reform Context: Understanding the Design and Enactment of Learning Experiences Created by Teacher Leaders for Science Educators

Katherina Sibbald
Tyranny in the mirror: critical reflections on literary talk with high school juniors in writing conferences

Jisel Villegas
Out-of-school literacy practices: a qualitative study of Latino students’ experiences

Lorraine Wilkins
Deconstructing the village: a case study of African American students’ experiences in a well-resourced suburban high school

Lina Yamashita
Making visible the people who feed us: exploring student responses to multicultural texts about food workers

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

Connie Hvidsten
Secondary Science teachers making sense of a model based classroom instruction: understanding the learning and learning pathways teachers describe as supporting changes in teaching practice

Kelsey Krausen
District leadership and the politics of portfolio management in an urban school district

Kevin Locklear
Finiding their way – Lumbee Indian military veterans as educators: a qualitative analysis

Ijeoma Ononuju
Black Portraits: The Leadership Practices of 4 Secondary Male Administrators

Tara Porter
Identifying markers of success in writing across the curriculum programs to help ensure sustainability

Michal Reznizki
Doctoral preparation in rhetoric and composition : understanding postsecondary teacher education

Mary Stewart
Interactive learning in technology-mediated first-year composition courses : a grounded theory study of small group discussion and peer review

Steven Worker
Volunteer educators’ influence on youth participation and learning in 4-H STEM learning by design programs

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

Carrie Strohl
Scientific literacy in food education : gardening and cooking in school

Hogan Hayes
Mapping the writing resources present as students transition into upper division course work in the biological sciences

Minerva Moreno
Discourse and knowledge in two community college developmental mathematics classrooms

Sherrie Reed
Charter School Spending and Saving in California

Daniela Torres-Torretti
Transforming Graduate Education through Performing The Language of the We: From an Epistemology of Silencing to a Pedagogy of Liberation

Sophia Mattingly
Inside out : identity, family and narrative (co)construction of self among Chinese international adoptees

George Sellu
The potential of standards-based agriculture biology as an alternative to traditional biology in California

Lori Maloney
Teaching community college introductory statistics using social justice contexts

Nancy McIntyre
Social, language, and executive cognition factors in reading development in school-aged children with high-functioning autism

Anne Stephens
Developing environmental action competence in high school students : examining the California partnership academy model

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

Renatta DeFever
Examining the academic achievement and language proficiency of English learners in California

Rosa Gomez-Camacho
Parental Investment in Children’s Human Capital: Determinants of Bargaining Power, Decision-Making and Intra-Household Resource Allocation within a Mexican-Origin Immigrant Community

Shirley Thomas
Language learners and the impact of reading ability and socioeconomic inequality on science and math achievement : discriminate function analysis and differential item functioning (item bias) studies of the PISA across 45 countries

Aparna Sinha
Exploring directed self placement as a placement alternative for first year college students in writing classes

Joanna Wong
What to write? : elementary bilingual students writing in a second language

Kerrie Chitwood
Reading intervention for children with fragile X syndrome

Laura Greiss Hess
Effects of sertraline treatment for young children with fragile X syndrome : examination of developmental outcomes and family contexts

Kathryn Hayes
Equity in elementary science education : a study of institutional and policy factors

Rosa Manzo
Pláticas de Resistencia: An Examination of the Forms of Parent Involvement and Negotiation of School-Parent Tensions in a Farmworking Community in California’s Central Valley

Mong Thi Nguyen
Billingual voices on identities, language, and being

Melissa Soto
Documenting students’ mathematical thinking through explanations and screencasts

Henry Tran
An examination of the existing relationship between salary and performance for education employees in California

Pamela Gourley-Delaney
The Sociomathematical Niche: Ethnographic Case Studies of Four Kindergarten Children at Home and at School

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

Nicole Blalock
Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies: Understanding School Practices and the Academic Achievement of American Indian and Alaska Native Students through a Multidisciplinary Lens

Ali Sakkal
The culture of home away from home : embracing the travel experience for learning and development

Julie Wahleithner
High School Teachers’ Instruction of Writing: Negotiating Knowledge, Student Need, and Policy

Paul de Gennaro
Measurement and training of STEM aptitude in post-secondary students enrolled in a pre-alied health program

Frances Holmes
Native American perspectives on educational experiences from within the not so ivory tower

Amy Huang
Developing Multiplicative Thinking with Rectangular Array Tasks in a Computer Environment

Maria-Cecilia Gómez
Exemplary, new teachers’ perspectives on teaching second-language learners and developing academic language : an embodied understanding of practice framework

Erin Hardie
Building and Bridging Communities of Practice for Habitat Conservation in Working Landscapes: Case Studies of Collaborative Learning and Research in California’s Central Valley​

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

Caroline Ramirez-Faghih
Fostering Change in College Students’ Statistical Reasoning and Motivation through Statistical Investigation

Manuelito Biag
Youth Well-Being and School Connectedness: Implications for Practice and Policy Strategies

Hsiao-Chi Chang
Student Engagement and the Quality of Higher Education: A Contextual and Analytical Study of Current Taiwanese Undergraduates

Elizabeth Gilliand
Talking about Writing: Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Adolescents’ Socialization into Academic Literacy

Jacob Jackson
K-12 and postsecondary alignment: three essays on statewide policies in California

Cirilo Cortez
Con Familia y Cariño: A Culturally Responsive After-School Tutoring Program for Latino Students

Rakia Esver
Supporting Mutual Success: Understanding How African American Friends Influence One Another’s College Plans

Nancy Ewers
Disentangling multiple sources of variance in a reading assessment for students with disabilities the role of raters and grammatical complexity

Marguerite Wilson
Children, Childhood, Power, and Pedagogy: The Radical Possibilities and Epistemological Limits of Sudbury Education

Pamela Pan
“It Needs to Be Something I Can Relate To”: The Academic Literacy of Community College Basic Skills Students

Shannon Pella
A Situative Perspective on Developing Writing Pedagogy in a Teacher Professional Learning Community

2011 Graduates

Shonte Stephenson
Extensions of Multilevel Factor Analysis to Detect School-Level Influences on Item Functioning​

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
The formidable: San Francisco Bay area Asian American educators

Irina Okhremtchouk
Disjointed Continuity: Classification Practices for Language Minority Students and Implications

Michael Lawson
The Effects of Student Engagement on Educational Attainment

Robert Pieretti
Response to Intervention and Literacy: A Bright Spot for Hmong Speaking English Language Learners?

David Ulate
To a Higher Degree: Addressing Disparities in College Access With Concurrent Enrollment

Lin Xiang
A Collective Case Study of Secondary Students’ Model-Based Inquiry on Natural Selection through Programming in an Agent-Based Modeling Environment

Comfort Ateh
Teachers’ Voices: An Analytic Description of Science Teachers’ Elicitation Practices during Instruction

Brenda Rinard
The Persuasive and Evaluative Essays of Adolescent English Learners: How Context Shapes Genre

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

Alexander Hess
Starting a Learning Progression for Agricultural Literacy: A Qualitative Study of Urban Elementary Student Understandings of Agricultural and Science Education Benchmarks

Lina Méndez
Latino English Learners’ access to a rigorous curriculum at a high performing high school in Northern California

Jennifer Porter
Performance Assessment for California Teachers (PACT): An Evaluation of Inter-rater Reliability

Maria Regalado
A student -centered perspective of technology for learning at California community colleges

Lisa Sullivan
Joint attention: Interactions with word learning and school readiness

Julia Svoboda
Modeling science supporting a more authentic epistemology of science

Shannon Cannon
When the School “Faucet” Turns Off, the Sociocultural “Sprinklers” Turn On: Funds of Knowledge among First and Second Grade English Learners Who Experienced Reading Gains During Summer

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”

Patrick Newell
How Do You Own An Idea? How Faculty Understand Copyrighted Materials They Use in Teaching and Research.

Kimberly Ferrario
How Do You Own An Idea? How Faculty Understand Copyrighted Materials They Use in Teaching and Research.

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

Margaret Beddow
A Longitudinal Case Study of a Latina Bilingual Teacher Promoting Academic Literacy Through Social Studies Instruction

Nina Moore
Engagement in Change: Interacting Perspectives in Under Performing High Schools

Bryce Battisti
Permaculture in Higher Education: Teaching Sustainability Through Action Learning

Jennifer Kurth
“Academic Outcomes in Inclusive and Non-Inclusive Special Education Programs for Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders”

Boohyun Yaangh
Being English Language Development Students: Cases of Korean-Speaking Students at High School

Chiem Seng Yaangh
Crossing a New Sea: A Study of the First Generation of Iu-Mien College Graduates

Heather Martin
“Elementary School Teachers’ Mathematics Instructional Decision Making in the Context of District Mandates on Instruction”

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

Enrique Sepulveda
Migrating Mexican youth, identity, and the pedaogogy of acompanamiento

Pamela Spycher
Learning academic language through science is two linguistically diverse kindergarten classes: intentional versus implicit approaches

Stacey Callier
Untangling Art & School: art and schools in adults’ and young people’s lives

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

Suzanne Laughrea
Student voices of success: considering the resiliency of poor and/or minority students who beat the odds in high school

Thao Mai
Sacrifices, Dilemmas and Choices: Young Vietnamese-American Women Negotiating Identity, Family Life, and Being “Successful”

Susan Davidson
Student Perspectives on Their School Trips to Zoos

Luciana de Oliveira
Knowing and writing history: A study of students’ expository writing and teacher’s expectations

Diana Huzieff
Teacher self -inquiry: A methodology for transformation

Marta Induni
Interacting Effects of Depression and Resilience Assets on Adolescent Smoking Status

Anysia Mayer
A Descriptive Study of Five College Prep Programs in an Urban High School: Applying Action Theory

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
“No resident left behind”. Constructing pediatric healthcare in the 21st century: The role of pediatric residency training in transforming community -based curriculum into collaborative community practice​

Anthony Barcellos
Mathematical misconceptions of college-age algebra students

Ann Stoltz
The relationship between a peer mentoring program and the successful transition to highschool

Shannon Guerrero
Case studies of reform in mathematics education through the development of technology-using teacher leaders​

Juliana Raskauskas
Role of Attribution Style and Coping Strategy Selection in the Relationship Between Peer Victimization and Outcomes Among Economically Disadvantaged Students

Mario Tinco-Herrera
The movement of Mexican scientists across the Mexico-United States border

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

Matthew Bronson
Writing passage: Academic literacy socialization among ESL graduate students, a case study

Jacob Blickenstaff
A framework for effective physics education applied to secondary and university physics courses

Irene Bersola-Nguyen
Transformative Participation in an Intergenerational Vietnamese-Pilipino-American Household Community

Fadia Desmond
Back on track: The transition of underrepresented minority students from undergraduate schooling

Emilio Soltero
The Use of Sequential Art in Literacy Instruction

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

Lisa William-White
Walking the tightrope: How high achieving African American students negotiate their social and academic identity

Sandra Frye-Lucas
Factors associated with African American engineering student success in first-year college calculus

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

Kathy Emery
The Business Roundtable and systemic reform: How corporate-engineered high-stakes testing has eliminated community participation in developing educational goals and policies

David Quijada
Youth coalition building: Crossing community boundaries, raising consciousness and dismantling oppression

Bernadette Musetti
‘Don’t question my authority!’: The politics and pedagogy of English only

Diedre Sessoms
A pragmatic conception of science: Implications for science teaching

Julie Maxwell-Jolly
Teacher response to top-down mandated reform: California’s Proposition 227

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

Mi-Kyung Ju
Being a mathematician: An ethnographic account of the cultural production of a mathematician at a university

Janet Hecsh
Not starting from scratch: Inventing tradition and structure in two new high schools

Michele Fortes
Reading comprehension strategies of two fifth-grade bilingual Latino readers

2000 Graduates

Jane Adan
Taking liberty: Resistance, estrangement, loss, and other trivialities in a child’s relation with adults and the finite world. Critical stories, experimental pieces

Gail Martinez
Making a difference: The effects of an undergraduate research mentorship program on the production of minority scholars

Rick Pomeroy
Detecting changes in student teachers’ conceptions of teaching science to adolescent English language learners

Michele Sanchez-Boyce
A bridge over troubled waters: The use of Spanish-speaking interpreters during special education assessment

Victor Romualdi
Shared dream: A case study of the implementation of Healthy Start (California)

Jeffrey Lewis
The social construction of childhood in a Mixtec community (Mexico)

Maria Mejorado
Navigating the complex issues in a California statewide mentoring program for Mexican American high school students

Susan O’Hara
A case study of the relationships among a fifth-grade teacher’s beliefs, behavioral intentions and behaviors as he integrates computers into the teaching/learning setting

Greg Potter
The adventures of Ann: A case study of a kindergarten teacher and her beliefs as she explored integrating science into her literacy curriculum

Ting Sun
Teachers who lead: Professional life histories of twelve teachers

1999 Graduates

Judy Kysh
Discourse in small groups in an Algebra 1 class

Francisca Godinez
The formations of ‘Mexicananess: Trenzas de identidades multiples’. The development of womanhood among young Mexicanas: Braids of multiple identities

1998 Graduates

Esther Delgado-Larocco
Classroom processes in a two-way immersion kindergarten classroom

Lary Duque
The power of relationship between parents and school officials

Pam Castori

Paul Rooney
Improving rewriting through direct instruction: An integrated process-oriented approach

Phil Smith
The effects of a computer algebra system-mediated instructional approach in an introductory calculus course. Toward a theory of CAS use in the calculus classroom.

Lorie Hammond
Building a Mien-American house: A case study in school-community relations

Kristine Strong
Peer group entry and social adaptation of children with a neuromuscular disease

Susan Heredia
Perspectives: Case studies of three European American middle-class preservice teachers learning to teach in a culturally and linguistically diverse setting

1997 Graduates

John Elia
Sexuality education: A challenge for the schools

Alan Blakely

Cathi Christo

1996 Graduates

Stephen Brock
The reading comprehension abilities of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

Jaime Schrabeck
The influence of working memory capacity and motivation on the depth of university students’ text processing

Judi Kusnick
Constructing a constructivist classroom: knowledge, learning, and language in science education

1995 Graduates

Lubna Chaudrhy
Marginality, hybridity, empowerment: a critical feminist ethnography of the resistance of Pakistani Muslim immigrant women in community and educational contexts

Terry Underwood
The impact of a portfolio assessment system on the instruction, motivation, and achievemnt of seventh and eight grade english-language arts students in a northern claifornia middle school

1991 Graduates

Yali Zou
The role of minorities in the Woodland Schools: an ethnohistorical accont of minority populations in Woodland from 1850 to the present