Recent Ph.D. Graduates

2022

• Julie Lang
  Advisor: Jodie Novak
  Dissertation Title: Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching as Decision Making for the University Mathematician Developing Coherence in Review of Discrete Mathematics
• Lida Bentz
  Advisor: Lindsay Reiten
  Dissertation Title: Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching in Co-teachers at the Post-secondary Level: A Cognitive and Enacted Approach

2021

• Andrea Alt
  Advisor: Nathaniel Miller
  Dissertation Title: Online Instructors’ Gestures for Euclidean Transformations Online Instructors’ Gestures for Euclidean Transformations 

2020

• Jennifer Ruth Zakotnik-Gutierrez
  Advisors: Gulden Karakok and Spencer Bagley
  Dissertation Title: An Activity Theory Approach to Examining the Implications of Developmental Mathematics Reform at an Urban Community College

2019

• Elizabeth Scott-Janda
  Advisor: Robert Powers
  Dissertation Title: The Impact of Social and Cultural Factors on Minority Students' Participation in an International Baccalaureate Diploma Program

• Michelle Ann Morgan
  Advisor: Robert Powers
  Dissertation Title: Standards-Based Grading Practices in Middle School Mathematics Classrooms: A Multicase Study

2018

• Brian Arthur Christopher
  Advisor: Gulden Karakok
  Dissertation Title: The Relationship Between Calibration, Mindset, Mathematics Anxiety and Achievement in Pre-Service Elementary Teachers
• Emilie Hancock
  Advisor: Gulden Karakok
  Dissertation Title: The Sociocultural Mediation of Metacognition during Problem Solving in Undergraduate Mathematics Classroom Communities of Practice 
• Brent Hancock
  Advisor: Hortensia Soto
  Undergraduates’ Collective Argumentation Regarding Integration of Complex Functions within Three Worlds of Mathematics

2017

• Jeffrey King
  Advisor: Gulden Karakok
  Dissertation Title: Students' Social Adaptation to Mathematics Tasks

2016

• Kristin Noblet
  Advisors: Hortensia Soto & Gulden Karakok
  Dissertation Title: Preservie Elementary Teachers’ Understandings of Topics in Number Theory

2015

• Melissa Goss Troudt
  Advisor: Gulden Karakok
  Dissertation Title:  Mathematicians’ Evolving Personal Arguments:  Ideas that Move Proof Constructions Forward
• Kitty (Catherine) Roach
  Advisor: Robert Powers
  Dissertation Title: A Study of Novice Instructors’ Questioning Techniques and Classroom Discourse Surrounding those Questions
• Jonathan Troup
  Advisors: Hortensia Soto and Gulden Karakok
  Dissertation Title: “Students” Development of Geometric Reasoning about the Derivative of Complex-Valued Functions

2014

• Dibbs, Rebecca Anne
  Advisor: Michael Oehrtman
  Dissertation Title:The effects of formative assessment on students' Zone of Proximal Development in introductory calculus
• Glassmeyer, David
  Advisors: Jodie Novak and Michael Oehrtman
  Dissertation Title: Secondary Teacher Models of Quantitative Reasoning
• Roberson, Lee
  Advisor: Bill Blubaugh
  Dissertation Title: Building Bridges: Connecting Collegiate Athletic and Mathematics Cultures

2012

• Yestness, Nissa Rae
  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

• Parker, Catherine Freida
  Advisors: Hortensia Soto 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
• Andrew, Lane
  Advisors: Hortensia Soto and Richard Grassl
  Dissertation Title: The Relationship between Mathematical Induction, Proposition Functions, and Implication Functions
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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
  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 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 Nontraditional 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/cas/faculty-staff/dr-vickie-vandresar
  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.