Recent Ph.D. Graduates
2012
- Lane Andrew
Advisors: Hortensia Soto-Johnson and Richard Grassl
Dissertation Title: The Relationship between Mathematical Induction, Proposition Functions, and Implication Functions - Nissa Rae Yestness
Advisors: Robert Powers and Steven Leth
Dissertation Title: A Study of Undergraduate Students' Use of Diagrams in Understanding and Constructing Proofs about Groups, Subgroups, and Isomorphisms
2011
- Catherine Freida Parker
Advisors: Hortensia Soto-Johnson and Cathleen Craviotto
Dissertation Title: How Intuition and Language Use Relate to Students' Understanding of Span and Linear Independence in an Elementary Linear Algebra Class
2010
- Champion, Joe
Advisor: Robert A. Powers
Dissertation Title: The Mathematics Self-Efficacy and Calibration of Students in a Secondary Mathematics Teacher Preparation Program
2009
- Deon, Rhoda
Advisor: Shandy Hauk
Dissertation Title: The Nature of Pedagogical Content Knowledge about Combinatorics Representations Among Pre- and In-Service K-8 Teachers. - Wheeler, Ann
Advisor: Hortensia Soto-Johnson
Dissertation Title: Traditional and Nontraditional Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Perceptions about Mathematics and Mathematics Teaching.
2008
- Judd, April
Advisor: Shandy Hauk
Dissertation Title: Function, Visualization, and Mathematical Thinking for College Students with ADHD. - Phipps, Marnie
Advisors: Hortensia Soto-Johnson and Bill Blubaugh
Dissertation Title: A Phenomenological Investigation on Eighth Graders' Number Sense of Fractions. - Toney, Allison
Advisor: Shandy Hauk
Dissertation Title: Women with Advanced Degrees in Mathematics in Doctoral Programs in Mathematics Education .
2007
- Dollard, Clark
Advisors: Bill Blubaugh and Michelle Chamberlin
Dissertation Title: Preservice Elementary Teachers' Thinking About Situations Involving Probability.
2006
- Cribari, RaKissa
Advisors: Shandy Hauk and Jodie Novak
Dissertation Title: Socio-Cultural Factors and Seventh Grade Students' Attitudes and Beliefs About Mathematics. - Huang, Chien-Chung
Advisor: Bill Blubaugh
Dissertation Title: The Understanding of Multiplication of Preservice Elementary School Teachers in Taiwan.
2005
- Banks, Clare
Advisors: Dean Allison and Michelle Chamberlin
Dissertation Title: Preservice Teachers' Personal Epistemological Beliefs in Relation to Their Beliefs in the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics' Principles and Standards for School Mathematics. - Duvall, Sally
Advisors: Dean Allison and Robert Mayes
Dissertation Title: Students' Concept Images of Parameters in a Multi-Representational Differential Equations Course. - Tsay, Jenq-Jong [David]
Advisor: Shandy Hauk
Dissertation Title: Pedagogical content knowledge in prospective elementary teachers: The schema of multiplication.
2004
- Neumann, Andrew
Advisor: Jeff Farmer
Dissertation Title: The Mathematical Tasks Framework: A Consequence of and Condition for Professional Development.
2002
- Gonske, Teresa
Advisor: William Blubaugh
Dissertation Title: Relationships among Mathematics Anxiety, Beliefs about the Nature of Mathematics and Learning Mathematics, and Students' Learning Approaches in Non-Traditional Aged Students at the Community College. - Junius, Prema
Advisor: Jeff Farmer/ Jodie Novak
Dissertation Title: Cognitive Engagement in Integrating Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Geometry. - Miltenberger, Pam
Advisor: Jodie Novak
Dissertation Title: The Effects of a Physics Learning Community on Student Attitude and Performance. - Tsao, Yea-Ling
Advisor: Dean Allision/ Helen Gerretson
Dissertation Title: The Number Sense of Pre-Service Elementary School Teachers.
2001
- Lassak, Marshall
Advisor: Jeff Farmer
Dissertation Title: The Structure of Beliefs: Three Case Studies of Prospective Secondary Mathematics Teachers. - Perrine, Vicki
Advisor: William Blubaugh
Dissertation Title: Effects of a Problem-Solving Mathematics Classroom on the Proportional Reasoning of Preservice Teachers.
2000
- Kassemi, Fatholah
Advisor: Robert Mayes/ Igor Szczyrba
Dissertation Title: Pre-service Teacher's Conceptual Understanding of Rational Numbers. - Medina, Elsa
Advisor: Robert Mayes/ Jodie Novak
Dissertation Title: Student Understanding of Span, Linear independence, and Basis in an Elementary Linear Algebra Class.
If you have access to Dissertations International: http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/9983081
- Zderad, Jon
Advisor: Robert Mayes/ Jodie Novak
Dissertation Title: Understanding a Student's Oral, Written and Pictoral Mathematical Voice through Engagement in and Reflection on Classroom Episodes.
1999
- Belloso, Rafael
Advisor: Robert Mayes/ Larry Lesser
Dissertation Title: A measurement model using path analysis with latest variables to assess the student affective domain before learning introductory statistics. - Lee, Wan-I
Advisor: Robert Mayes/ Richard Grassl
Dissertation Title: An Exploration of the Relationship Between Students' Proof-Writing Abilities and Van Heile Levels of Geometric Thought in a College Geometry Course. - Yuan, Yuan
Advisor: Robert Mayes
Dissertation Title: The impact of student learning style and classroom environment interactions on the development of function concept in college algebra students. - Kloster, Tom
Advisor: Robert Mayes
Dissertation Title: Towards a Model of the Comprehension of the Cartesian Plane. - Strickland, Jeff
Advisor: Robert Mayes
Dissertation Title: How Students Make Meaning in a Reform Calculus Course.
Email: aj3948@usma.edu - Su, Robert
Advisor: J.Wey Chen
Dissertation Title: The Effects of Enhanced Web-based Instruction on Preservice Teachers' Mathematics Achievement and Attitude Changes toward Mathematics and Towards Computer in Taiwan, Republic of China.
1998
- Bush, Jennifer Bergner
Advisor: Robert Mayes/ Steven Leth
Dissertation Title: An Exploratory Study of Two Students' Understanding of Group Theory Concepts Assumed Prerequisite to the Concept of Quotient Group. - Wisniewski, Ronald S.
Advisor: Robert Mayes
Dissertation Title: The Effects of an Integrated Curriculum on Students' Attitudes and Abilities Regarding the Application of Calculus to Physics Problems. - Chilcoat, Richard
Advisor: Robert Mayes
Dissertation Title: Comparing the Use of Graphing Calculator and Writing With More Traditional Methods.
Email: rac28@jan.ucc.nau.edu
1996
- Isom, Matt
Advisor: Jeff Farmer/Steven Leth
Dissertation Title: The Effect of a Mathematics Curriculum Influenced by Writing.
Homepage: At ASU
Email: isom@asu.edu - Mingus, Tabitha Terese Young
Advisor: William Bosch/ Jeff Farmer
Dissertation Title: The Effect of Conceptual, Constructivist Approach to Teaching Linear Algebra on Student Attitudes About Mathematics and the Learning of Mathematics. - Soto, Hortensia
Advisor: Robert Mayes
Dissertation Title: Technological vs. Traditional Approach in Conceptual Understanding of Series. - VanDresar, Vickie
Advisor: Chuck McNerney
Dissertation Title: Relationships of a Mathematics Content Course for Elementary/Middle School Teacher with Pre-Service Teachers' Attitudes/Beliefs about Mathematics and the Teaching of Mathematics.
Homepage: http://www.ashland.edu/colleges/arts_sci/compsci/Faculty/vandresar.html
Email: vvandres@ashland.edu
1995
- Hsieh, Dannie
Advisor: William Blubaugh
Dissertation Title: A Comparison of the Thinking Processes of Mathematically- Advanced and Average Students (Age 10-11), Engaged in Mathematics Problem Solving. - Brown, John W.
Advisor: William Blubaugh
Dissertation Title: The Effect of a Computer-Supported Curriculum on Student Beliefs About Mathematics and Mathematics Achievement.
1994
- Olsen, Jim
Advisor: William Bosch
Dissertation Title: The Effect of the Use of Number Line Representation on the Student Understanding of Basic Function Concepts.
Homepage: http://www.wiu.edu/users/mfjro1/wiu/index.htm
Email: james_olsen@ccmail.wiu.edu - Ma, Hsiu-Lan
Advisor: William Blubaugh
Dissertation Title: A Comparative Study Between Traditional Instruction and Modified Multimedia Instruction in Math Problem-Solving Achievements and Beliefs of Sixth Grade Students in Taiwan. - Wu, Der Bang
Advisor: Chuck MeNerney
Dissertation Title: A Study of the vanHeile Model in the Teaching of Non Euclidean Geometry to Perspective Elementary School Teacher in Taiwan, The Republic Of China. - Duchrow, Linda
Advisor: Steven Leth/Robert Mayes
Dissertation Title: Effect of HyperCard Based Electronic Performance Support System on Teacher Attitude Towards Mathematics.
Homepage: http://www.regis.edu/regis.asp?sctn=apg&p1=ut&p2=mt&p3=fac&p4=lduchrow
1993
- Pan, Hung-Ming
Advisor: Igor Szczyrba
Dissertation Title: A study of Metacognitive Behaviors In Mathematical Problem Solving of Older Elementary Students in Taiwan.
