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SESAME (Graduate Group in Science and Mathematics Education)


Dissertation Titles and Advisors. Graduate Group in Science and Mathematics Education 1989-2009

Information performances and illative sequences: sequential organization of explanations of chemical phase equilibrium by Nathaniel  James Swanton Brown.  2009   Advisor: Angelica Stacy

Learning thermochemistry: understanding the challenges and promoting its success by Karen Chang.  2009  Advisor: Angelica Stacy

Measuring the development of conceptual understanding in chemistry by Jennifer Marie Claegens         2007         Advisor: Angelica Stacy

The longitudinal impact of an eighth grade inquiry curriculum on students' beliefs and achievement in science by Jacqueline Joan Madhok. 2006  Advisor: Marcia C. Linn

Promoting knowledge integration of scientific principles and environmental stewardship:  assessing and issue-based approach to teaching evolution and marine conservation by Timothy David Zimmerman.  2005   Advisor: Marcia C. Linn

The nature of inquiry in science centers: describing and assessing inquiry at exhibits by Scott Meyer Randol. 2005   Advisor: Barbara Y. White

Student self-assessment in an interactive learning environment technological tools for scaffolding and understanding self-assessment practices by Eric Martin Eslinger.  2004  Advisor: Barbara Y. White

How HIV clinicians acquire representational fluency: a case study of the HIV Resistance Preceptorship Mary Annette Banach.  2003  Advisor: Bernard R. Gifford

Controvery in the classroom:  how eight-grade and undergraduate students reason about tradeoffs of genetically modified food by Sherry Lynn Seethaler.  2003  Advisor: Marcia C. Linn

The construction of similarity: context sensitivity and the transfer of mathematical knowledge by Fr. Joseph Francis Wagner.  2003   Advisor: Alan H. Schoenfeld

Acceptance of evolutionary explanations as they are applied to plants, animals, and humans by Anastasia Thanukos.  2002  Advisor: Michael A. Ranney

Proof and justification in collegiate calculus by Manya Janaky Raman.  2002         Advisor: Alan H. Schoenfeld

Designing instruction to support mechanical reasoning: three alternatives in the simple machines learning environment by Ann Frances McKenna. 2001  Advisor: Alice Agogino

Designing effective animations for computer science instruction by Oliver Grillmeyer. 2001  Advisor: Marcia C. Linn

Cognitive pattersn of neuroanatomy concepts: knowledge organizations that emerge from problem solving versus information gathering by Jeanne Margaret O’Malley Weidner. 2000  Advisor: Marion Diamond

Image processing in a science classroom: the role of students’ undertanding of the technology by Jeffrey S. Friedman. 1999  Advisor: Andrea A. diSessa

Scaffolding scientific discussion using socially relevant representations in net worked multimedia by Christopher M Hoadley. 1999  Advisor: Marcia C. Linn

Teaching science for public understanding: developing decision-making abilities by Marcelle A. Siegel. 1999  Advisors: Marion Diamond and Michael A. Ranney

Inscribing the winch: a case study of two students constructing knowledge for representing the physical world with algebra by Andrew Gyula Izsak.  1999  Advisor: Alan H. Schoenfeld

Student goal orientation in learning inquiry skills with modifiable software advisors by Todd Adrian Shimoda. 1999  Advisor: Barbara Y. White

Visualization tools: models, representations and knowledge integration by Brian Foley. 1999 Advisor: Marcia C. Linn

Fostering expiring inquiry skills and beliefs about chemistry through the MORE laboratory experience by Lydia Tsing Tien. 1998 Advisor: Angelica Stacy

Facilitating knowledge integration in science through electronic discussion: the multimedia forum kiosk by Sherry Hsiao-Rai His. 1997 Advisor: Marcia C. Linn

Mathematics socialization and identity among African Americans: community forces, school forces, and individual agency by Danny Bernard Martin. 1997 Advisor: Alan H. Schoenfeld

Student control of whole-class discussions in a community of designers by Peter Birns Kindfield. 1996  Advisor: Andrea A. diSessa

The symbolic basis of physical intuition: a study of two symbol systems in physics instruction by Bruce Lawrence Sherin.  1996 Advisor: Andrea A. diSessa

Design of performance based assessments as contributors to student knowledge integration by Helen Cobb Clark. 1996  Advisor: Marcia C. Linn

The nature and dynamics of teachers’ content knowledge Miriam Gamoran Sherin. 1996         Advisor: Alan H. Schoenfeld

Diving into communities of learning: existential perspectives on communities of practice and zone of proximal development by Edouard Albert Lagache. 1995  Advisor: David Miller

Transparent detector models: promoting conceptual change in geometrical optics by Sue Allen.         1994         Barbara Y. White

How scientific accounts appeal to their authors and readers: a case study in the nature writing of Loren Eisley by Yaakov Garb. 1993  Advisor: Carolyn Merchant

Students’ strategies for learning programming from a computational environments: a design, evaluation, and model Margaret Mary Recker.  1992  Advisor: Peter Pirolli

Defying common sense: epistemological beliefs in an introductory physics course by David Morris Hammer. 1991 Advisor: Andrea A. diSessa

The implications of functional and structural knowledge representations for novice programmers by Lydia Michelle Mann. 1991  Advisor: Andrea A. diSessa

The process of scientific knowledge acquisition among middle school students learning thermodynamics by Eileen Lob Lewis. 1991 Advisor: Marcia C. Linn

Explorations of mathematical sense-making: an activity-oriented view of children’s use and design of material displays by Luciano de Lemos Meira. 1991  Advisor: Alan H. Schoenfeld

Pictorial representations and understanding genetics: an expert/novice study of meiosis knowledge by Ann Carol Hildebrand 1990  Advisor:  Andrea A. diSessa        

Children’s learning in computer microworld for transformation geometry by Laurie Edwards. 1989 Advisor: Andrea A. diSessa

Promoting integration of instructed and natural world knowledge in thermodynamics by Nancy Butler Songer. 1989 Advisors: Alan H. Schoenfeld ands Marcia C. Linn