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Education in Math, Science & Technology


Cognition & Development Area Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology Dissertation Titles 1985- 2010

What is "good reasoning" about global warming: a comparison of high school students and specialists by Stephen Thomas Adams. 1998  Advisor: Andrea A. diSessa

Teaching high school mathematics in a climate of standards-based reform: the influence and interaction of teachers' beliefs and department culture on instructional decision-making and practice by Julia Maria Aguirre. 2002   Advisor: Alan H. Schoenfeld

From functional reasoning to an adaptationist stance: children's transition toward deep biology by Doris Brigette Ash. 1995  Advisor: Ann Brown

Serious play: a comparative study of engagement and learning in hobby practices   by Flávio Saraiva Azevedo.  2005   Advisor: Andrea A. diSessa

Designing for students' science learning using argumentation and classroom debate by Philip LaVerne Bell. 1998   Advisor: Marcia C. Linn

Learning through student-generated explanations: investigating the effects of individual and collaborative explanation strategies and metacognition on the acquisition of knowledge and skills for computer programming by Kate Marie Bielaczyc.  1994   Advisor: Peter Pirolli

Regulating social interactions: developing a functional theory of collaboration by Marcela Borge. 2007   Advisor: Barbara Y. White

Generation in the knowledge integration classroom by Britte Haugan Cheng 2008  Advisor: Marcia C. Linn

Building mathematical understanding during collaboration: students learning functions and graphs in an urban, public high school by Ming Ming Chiu. 1996   Advisor: Andrea A. diSessa

Scaffolding knowledge integration through curricular depth by Douglas Burton Clark. 2000   Advisor: Marcia C. Linn

Learning science through the design of passive solar dwellings: can specialization contribute to improved learning outcomes by Alexander Jay Cuthbert. 2002   Advisor: Marcia C. Linn

Scaffolding students' reflection for science learning by Elizabeth Anna Davis. 1998  Advisor: Marcia C. Linn

Visitor behavior as a measure of the educational effectiveness of museum exhibits by Jean Frances DeMouthe.  Advisor: Lawrence Lowery

Computers and students as instructional partners: the role of simulation feedback in collaborative argumentation by Christine Lee Diehl.  2001   Advisor: Michael A. Ranney

Do students have a decent chance of success in lower track geometry classes? by Pamela Belle Lay Drew. 

"Let yourself be taken by the rhythm of working together": a study of student perspectives on collaborative processes by Sybil Jane Ellery. 1996   Advisor: Ann Brown

Trajectories of representational practice: an analysis of conceptual change in the probability inquiry environment  by Noel Denton Enyedy. 2000  Advisor: Bernard R. Gifford

How are we supposed to, like, learn it, if none of us know?: opportunities to learn and equity in mathematics cooperative learning structures   by Indigo Jody Michelle Esmonde. 2006  Advisor: Geoffrey Saxe

Andrew Falk.  2009   Advisor: Maryl Gearhart

Knowing thermodynamics: a study of student's collective argumentation in an undergraduate physics course by Nicole Marie Gillespie. 2004  Advisor: Andrea A. diSessa

Designing valid theories of learning:new insights by Bernadette Marie-Hélène Guimberteau. 2003  Advisor: Andrea A. diSessa

Coordinated causal model design: building on linked conceptual primitives by Joshua Paul Gutwil.  1996  Advisor: Barbara Y. White

Second chance at first life: fostering the mathematical and computational agency of at-risk youth by Sneha Veeragoudar Harrell. 2009  Advisor: Dor Abrahamson

Through the eyes of professional developers: understanding the design of learning experiences for science teachers by Tara Eileen Higgins.  2008  Advisor: Marcia C. Linn

Learning on the job: mathematics teachers' professional development in the contexts of high school reform by Ilana Seidel Horn. 2002  Advisor: Alan H. Schoenfeld

The effect of word processing on sixth grade writing skills by Jennifer Reese House. Advisor: Lawrence F. Lowery

A study of students' writing abilities with microcomputers by Jane Nissen Laidley.

Analysis of student thinking regarding living and nonliving by Pamela Marie Lanaro. Advisor:  Lawrence Lowery

The homework cycle: identity development and the meaning of mathematics homework in the lives of urban middle school students by Mara Grayce Landers. 2007  Advisor:   Alan H. Schoenfeld

Leonard, Michael  1992  Advisor: Alan H. Schoenfeld

Curriculum enactment customizations as a catalyst for teacher learning by Alan Lawrence Li.  2007  Advisor: Marcia C. Linn

Transfer reconceived: How "Sameness" is produced in mathematical activity by Joanne Elizabeth Lobato.  1996  Advisor: Alan H. Schoenfeld

Suzanna Loper.  2005  Advisor:  Barbara Y. White

A cognitive account of teachers' descriptive knowledge by Rodrigo Ezequiel Madanes. 1999  Advisor: Andrea A. diSessa

Teaching, research, and instructional design: bridging communities in mathematics education by Susan Magidson.  2002  Advisor:  Schoenfeld 

Making sense of linear equations and graphs: an analysis of students' conceptions and language use by Judit Nora Moschkovich. 1992  Alan H. Schoenfeld

The development of conceptual understanding through the use of computational representations by Orit Parnafes.  2005  Advisor:   Andrea A. diSessa

Ideological change in teachers' understanding of race and racial justice by Thomas Marukara Philip. 2007  Advisor:   Andrea A. diSessa

Dyscalculic in the making: mathematical sovereignty, neurological citizenship, and the realities of the dyscalculic by Tamar Judith Posner. 2008  Advisor: Ingrid Seyer-Ochi

Students' construction of qualitative physics knowledge: learning about velocity and accerleration in a computer microworld by Jeremy M. Roschelle. 1991  Advisor:   Andrea A. diSessa

A study of teacher learning and professional development through collaborative reflection on artifacts of practice by Ann Joo Ryu. 2006 Advisor: Schoenfeld

Computational tools for modeling and aiding reasoning: assessing and applying the theory of explanatory coherence by Patricia Kathleen Schank.  1995  Advisor:   Michael A. Ranney

Developing students' understanding of scientific modeling by Christine Virginia Schwarz. 1998  Advisor: Barbara Y. White

Constructing inquiry: one school's journey to develop an inquiry-based school for teachers and students by Stephanie Lee Sisk-Hilton. 2005  Advisor:   Marcia C. Linn

An examination of knowledge-in-action: an exploratory study of female teachers responsible for science instruction by Carolie Ann Sly.  1991  Advisor: Lawrence Lowery

Connecting beliefs and teaching practices: a study of teaching assistants in reform-oriented calculus courses by Natasha Margaret Speer. 2001  Advisor:  Alan H. Schoenfeld

Disciplined perception: comparing the development of embodied mathematical practices in school and at work by Reed Richard Stevens. 1999  Advisor:  Rogeres Hall

Erika Tate.  2009  Advisor: Marcia C. Linn

Student conceptions of confounding in observational settings: results form experimental surveys by Nathaniel Albert Titterton. 2001  Advisors:  Paul Holland & Andrea A. diSessa

Learning to speak for nature: a case study of the development of scientists and their representational practices by José Antonio (Tony) Torralba. 2006  Advisors:  Geoffrey Saxe and Rogers Hall.

Promoting student understanding of elementary probability using a technology-mediated inquiry environment by Philip James Vahey.  1998   Advisor: Bernard R. Gifford

Pathways of professional learning for elementary science teachers using computer learning environments by LaTonya Michelle Williams.  2004  Advisor:   Marcia C. Linn

Thinking through new vocationalism: examining career academy students' problem solving and school performance by Christopher Yalun Wu.  2005  Advisor:   Daniel Stern