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June 20, 2006
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UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School awards 27 doctorates

UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz Graduate School of Education awarded 27 doctorates to graduates this June. Here is the list of graduates, their department/program and the name of their dissertations:

Counseling, Clinical and School Psychology

Janice Elaine Basch
An Examination of Subtypes in an Adult Drug Court

Alison Diane Brown
Factors Related to the Traditionality of Women's Math-Related Occupational Choices

Theodore Raymond Burnes
Opening the Door to a Bigger Closet: An Analysis of Sexual Orientation Identity Development for Lesbian, Bisexual, and Queer Women of Color

Elizabeth Diane Cordero
Parents as Protective Factors against the Emergence of Eating Problems in College Women

Karen Man Shan Sze
Using a High-Probablity Behavioral Momentum Sequence to Teach Functional Vocabulary to Children with Autism

Yasmeen Ihsan Yamini-Benjamin
Moving toward a Better Understanding of Black Women's Work Adjustment: The Role of Perceived Discrimination and Self-Efficacy in Predicting Job Satisfaction and Psychological Distress in Black Women

Education

Terran Leon Brown
Measuring the Black-White Achievement Gap in Racially Isolated Schools

Jodi Anne Colitti
Case Studies of At-Risk Students in Junior High School: Their Perceptions of Resiliency-Building Factors and Their Attitudes toward School

Marcela DeSouza
Succeeding in School: A Retrospective Study Exploring How Academic Achievement Is Possible for Mexican Second Language Learners in the United States

Andrew Kent Faulk Jr.
Administrators' Views of Zero Tolerance

Michael C. Harnett
Humor as an Enhancement of Writing Motivation and Performance: "Enjoyable Incongruity," Will, and Skill for Community College Students

Hilary Peregrine Johnson
A Study of Curriculum and Practices in Two Tenth Grade English Classrooms: Observing Antecedents of Opportunities to Learn

Kristina Marie Lague
An Investigation into the Opportunities for Learning to Be Literate in a Pre-Kindergarten Classroom Community

Yandong Liang
Parental Expectations of Only Boys and Only Girls in China

James Corey McKenna
The Development and Implementation of an Integrated Curriculum at an Elementary Math, Science, and Technology Magnet School

Patricia Ramirez
Digital Story Telling: A Window into the Lives of Latino Immigrant Families in the United States

Grace Ellen Santarelli
Latino Parental Involvement in Special Education Preschool Classrooms: A Qualitative Study

Dulcie Nan Sinn
Parental Involvement: Perceptions of Supports and/or Constraints from the Teachers' Union — An Exploratory Case Study of a California School District

Audrone Skukauskaite
Intended and Unintended Consequences of Education Reforms in Lithuania on the Lives and Work of EFL Teachers

Tessa Jo Tinkler
Transitory Freedom: Political Discourses of Adolescent Refugees in a Photography-Based After-School Program

Angiline Louisa Whitney
The Transformative Power of Writing: Teachers' Writing at a National Writing Project Summer Institute

Sukkyung You
Identifying Significant Factors Related to Adolescents' Academic Engagement Using Multilevel Latent Growth Curve Modeling

Education, Joint Program with Cal Poly SLO

Kevin Fredrick Botenbal
An Exploration of a Community College's Learning and Response to New Accreditation Standards for the Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes

James Joseph Brescia
Maintaining Academic Achievement in Times of Declining Enrollment

Holly Corine Edds
Grade Configurations of Schools and Selected Student Outcomes: A Focus on High Poverty Sixth Grades in Rural Areas

Patty Lynn Grady
Increasing Academic, Behavorial, and Psychological Engagement among At-Risk Junior High Students

Janice Jane Wellman
The Effects of a Systematic, Explicit Literacy Program on the Reading Performance of Kindergarten Students

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