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July 20, 2010
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UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School awards 37 doctorates

Thirty-seven doctoral candidates from UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz Graduate School took part in graduation ceremonies in the academic year 2009-10. Listed below are the new Ph.D.s and their dissertation titles.

Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology

Counseling Psychology

Saul Alamilla “Examining the Moderating Effects of Enculturation and Color-Blind Racial Ideology on the Relationship between Racism-Related Stress and Psychological Distress among Latino/as”

Yong Park “Development of the Preliminary East Asian Relationship Norm Scale: Factor Analysis, Reliability, and Validity”

Clinical Psychology

Ty Vernon “Fostering a Social Child: Assessing the Transactional Benefits of Parent-Delivered Embedded Social Interaction with Young Children with Autism”

Sara Walker “The Effect of Drinking Motivation on Consumption and Response to Intervention among College Students”

School Psychology

Diane Tanigawa “Perceived Social Support as a Buffer against the Manifestation of Depressive Symptoms for Peer Victims”

Department of Education

Child and Adolescent Development

Wei-Wen Chen “The Relation between Taiwanese Parental Influences and Academic Achievement: The Effects of Students’ Academic Beliefs and Filial Piety”

Joyce Ester “Racial Regard as a Predictor for Hazing Attitudes”

Piljoo Kang “The Role of Church Engagement, Spirituality, and Mentoring Relationships in Psychological and Behavioral Outcomes of Korean American Adolescents”

Nicole Merino “Parallel Relations of Pretend Play, Social Competence, and Theory of Mind Development in Preschool Aged Children”

Cultural Perspectives and Comparative Education

Jairo Arellano “Newcomers: Culture and Language Experiences of Mexican Students Arriving in a California School”

John Hammond “What Counts as Context? Examining the Uses and Construction of Context in the Classroom Negotiation of Respect”

Margrete Hartman “Acculturation and Adjustment among Immigrant Adolescents in Norway: Focus on Belonging and Performing in School”

Laura Hill-Bonnet “Learning in Two Languages: An Ethnographic Examination of Bridging Conceptual Knowledge across Linguistic Contexts”

Michelle Samura “Architecture of Diversity: Dilemmas of Race and Space for Asian American Students in Higher Education”

Charlene Tomas “High School Health Education: Fillipino-American Teenage Mothers’ Sex Education Experiences and Recommendations”

Educational Leadership and Organizations

John Dewey “Teaming as a School Enhancement Strategy: An Examination of the Conditions, Features and Dynamics of Teacher Work Teams in Two Local Elementary Schools”

Laila Diguilio “Cognitive and Noncognitive, Two Sides of the Same Coin: Using Latent Class Analysis to Compare Students on Select Academics and Career Outcomes”

Diane Gomez “School Violence Prevention: Climate and Moral Perspectives of Sixth through Eighth Grade Students Attending a Southern California Catholic School”

Cheri Scripter “A Thematic Analysis Regarding Education Goals in Nigeria and Select Unesco Education for all Priorities”

Mingni Su “Merger of Higher Education institutions: Case Studies in China in the 1990s”

Sharon Woodlief “Out of the Classroom and into the Heart of the Matter: A Case Study of University Student Residents’ Reaction to Access to Multicultural Awareness Education”

Special Education, Disabilities, and Risk Studies

April Regester “Beyond High School: A Look Back on Student and Teacher Perspectives on Their Participation with Inclusive Friendship Programs in High School”

Teaching and Learning

Gregory Bayless “High School Students Personal Epistemologies, Goal Orientations and Academic Performance”

Alison Bright “Identity Development in TAs and Tutors: From Preparation to Practice”

Caren Converse “Unpoetic Justice: A Qualitative Study of the Pre-Sentence Investigation Report”

Svetlana Grishchenko “A Comparative Analysis of Word Problems in Selected United States and Russian First Grade Textbooks”

Emily (Jee Sun) Kang “Depth and Breadth: Bridging the Gap between Scientific Inquiry and High Stakes Testing with Diverse Junior High School Students”

Christine Faith Law “Identities of Becoming: Interviewing Asian Deaf Immigrants in America”

Kristen Lewis “Constructing Scientific Literacy in Inquiry-Based Communities of Science Practice”

Sun Ah Lim “Ethnic and Racial Difference in Higher Education Access: Effects of Family and School Resources”

Suzanne Null “Continued Variation amid Standardization: The Effects of School Program Improvement Status and of Participation in the South Coast Writing Project (SCWriP) on Teachers’ Curricular Sensemaking and Enactment”

Ed.D. – Educational Leadership

Dan Eller “College Vice Presidents’ Role in Fundraising Activities in the 2000s and Beyond: A Case in California”

Anne Haberkern “The Culture of Study Abroad in the 21st Century: A Case Study of Organizational Response to Growth”

Devon Hodgson “An Exploration of Two Mid-Level Faculty Developers’ Influence on Organizational Learning as Transformational Leaders in Two California Community Colleges”

Geoffrey Sandfort “Principal Leadership and Student Achievement: An Examination of Connections between Structural, Human Resource, Political, and Symbolic Leadership on Performance Outcomes on the California High School Exit Exam”

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