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