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June 19, 2007
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UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School awards 37 doctorates

UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz Graduate School of Education awarded 37 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

Counseling Psychology

Annie Ahn
Asian Values Gap, Cognitive Flexibility, Coping Strategies, and Child-Parent Conflicts among Korean American Young Adults and Their Parents

Sarah Porter
Undoing Circumscription: The Effect of Critical Career Counseling Ingredients on the Expansion of Women’s Career Choices

Clinical Psychology

Jennifer Greif Green
A Psychometric Analysis of the School Victimization Scale: Cross-Cultural Equivalence in the United States, Guatemala, and Israel

Eileen Klein
Training Paraprofessionals to Faciliate Social Interactions Between Children with Autism and their Typically Developing Peers

Francis Panteleakos
Peritraumatic Dissociation in Substance Abusing Populations Seeking Treatment

Hani Talebi
An Examination of Differences in Time to Treatment, Pretreatment Symptomatology, and Attrition Rates in a Sample of Maltreated European American and Latino Youth

Quy Tran
Using a Self-Assessment Procedure to Improve Parent Implementation of Intervention for Children with Autism

School Psychology

Megan Allen
The Relationship Between Temperament, Social Support, and Problem Behavior in a Group of Behaviorally At-Risk Adolescents

Blanca Orellana
The Relationship Between Parent-Child Acculturation, Family Functioning, and Problem Behavior Among a Sample of Latino Youth

Education

Child and Adolescent Development Emphasis

Lisa Weckbacher
The Role of Visualization in Three-Dimensional Geometric Problem Solving

Cultural Perspectives and Comparative Education Emphasis

Jairo Arellano
Ya-Hui Luo Use of Storybook Reading as a Curriculum Design in a Family Literacy Program: Socializing Parents to the Mainstream Family Literacy Practices and Promoting Parents’ English Proficiency

Educational Leadership and Organization Emphasis

Brenda Arellano
The Impact of Parental Involvement on the Achievement of Language Minority Latino Students in Early Elementary School

Yolanda Marquez

Janet McPherson
The Effects of Retention Strategies on Student Attrition at a Private, Four-Year, Religiously Affiliated Liberal Arts University

Adrian Palazuelos
Teacher Control Over Evaluation

Ghazala Rafiq
Language Policies in Sindh, Pakistan, and Their Implications for Education: An Ethnographic Case Study

Nancy Shatzer
Liberal Arts College Experiential Internship Learning and Assessment

Research Methodology Emphasis

Lubella Lenaburg
Predicting Student Performance in Introductory Statistics Using a Measure of Perception of Cognitive Competence in Statistics: An Analysis Using Bayesian Networks

Loan Tran
Investigating Group Differences in the Educational Achievement Gap in Early Elementary School: A Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling Analysis

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

Special Education, Disabilities, and Risk Studies Emphasis

Ariella Eichenbaum
Using Behavioral Momentum to Increase the Effectiveness of Time Delay Prompting and Improve the Spontaneous Communication in Children with Autism

Alexis Filippini
Project Word: Effects of Adding Vocabulary to Early Reading Instruction for English Learners At-risk of Reading Difficulties

Jane Lacy
Using a Motivational Extracurricular Activity to Improve the Social Interactions of Adolescents with High-Functioning Autism or Asperger Syndrome

Nicolette Nefdt
The Use of a Self-Directed Learning Program to Provide Introductory Training to Parents of Children with Autism

Jessica Singer
A Retrospective Interview Study of LIteracy Sponsorship and First Generation Latino College Writers

Emily Solari
Effects of Listening Comprehension Versus Phonological Awareness Interventions for Kindergarten English Learners

Teaching and Learning Emphasis

Rene de los Santos
‘Acerquemoslos economica y espiritualmente’: The Rhetoric of Mexico’s Economic (Re)Organization

Timothy Dewar

Janet van der Veen
Symmetry and Aesthetics in Introductory Physics: A Case Study of a New Paradigm in Physics Education

Pamela Yeagley
Teachers, Mandates, and Mediation in our Schools (working title)

Education, Joint Program in Educational Leadership with Cal Poly SLO

Terry Dworaczyk
The Significance of Classroom Instructional Practices on Student Achievement in an Inner-City School

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

Zachary Hall
An Exploratory Investigation of the Influence of College President Perceptions on Organizational Commitment to Higher Education Marketing at High Performing California Community Colleges

Lynne Lamb
Being Different: A Case Study of the Special Needs Student in the Elementary Classroom

Patricia Martin
An Exploration of Job Satisfaction and Workers’ Compensation Costs among Auxiliary Employees in Higher Education

Christopher Skinner
Challenge and Opportunity: Undergraduate Admissions Routines and Perceptions of Change

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