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College of Education & Human Development Educational Psychology Psychological Foundations

Educational Psychology - Psychological Foundations/Quantitative Methods
250 Education Sciences Building - 56 East River Road - Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
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Doctor of philosophy (Ph.D.)

Degree requirements

Students must complete required credits in EPsy core areas, 9 (or 12) credits of EPsy electives, 12 credits in a supporting program or minor, 24 thesis credits, and additional courses recommended by the adviser in the student's area of emphasis in psychological foundations. You will be responsible for the core requirements in effect at the time of your admission.

Minor requirements for students majoring in other fields

A doctoral minor requires at least 15 credits of graduate-level courses in EPsy: 9 credits in psychological foundations and 6 in applied areas, of which at least 9 credits must be 8xxx level; the minor is not covered in the preliminary exams.

Doctoral degree requirements for graduation
The degree program form can be downloaded from this page Graduate School page.

Admissions information

Ph.D. dissertation samples

Evaluation the Assumption of Homogeneity of Variance via Equivalence Testing.
by Philippe Gaillard, 2009

The Role of Social Class Models in the Relationship between Socioeconomic Status and Academic Achievement.
by Kyoungwon Lee, 2009

Moral Judgment, Role Concepts, and Empathic Reponse as Predictors of Dental Student Clinical Effectiveness.
by Verna Monson, 2009

Identity Relativity: Linking Stereotype Threat and Social Comparison as Parallel Processes.
by Suzanne Russ, 2009

The structure of virtue: An empirical investigation.
by Jessica Shryack, 2009

Pragmatic and Dialectic Mixed Method Approaches: An Empirical Comparison.
by Anne Betzner, 2008

The Effect of Student Interaction on Group Performance in Asynchronous Learning Environments
by Nora M. Braun, 2008

Using Citation Analysis Methods to Assess the Influence of STEM Education Evaluation
by Lija Ozols Greenseid, 2008

The Effects of Task Characteristics on Higher-Order Learning in Online Collaborative Learning. by Robert Jorczak, 2008

Facilitation of Bayesian Decision Making
by Yasmine Lauren Konheim Kalkstein, 2008

A Latent Growth Curve Analysis of the Impact of School Mobility on the Reading Scores of Poor and Non-Poor Children in the U.S.
by Elaine Yee Ling Lee, 2008

Trust in the Evaluator-Client Relationship.
by Amy Mayer, 2008

"There is Always a Path to Success for Every Student:" Educator Thinking Patterns and Inclusion at Parkview Primary Center
by Jennet C. Silverman, 2008

Comparison of Concurrent and Separate Multidimensional IRT Linking of Item Parameters.
by Mayuko Kanada Simon, 2008

Understanding Teacher-Student Relationships in Advisory Programs
by Mark J. Van Ryzin, 2008

Causality in Embodied Theories of Text Comprehension.
by Mary Jane White, 2008

A Comparison of Academically-Successful Struggling Adult Readers' and Academically-Successful Non-Struggling Adult Readers' Fluency Skills: Implications for College Reading Instruction.
by Jennifer Willcutt, 2008

Cognitive Transfer and Conservation in Chess Playing
by Michael Atherton, 2007

Event-Indexing Across Development
by Catherine Marie Bohn, 2007

Academic Growth in Kindergarten: The Effects of Child-Level and School-Level Factors on Learning Outcomes
by Tina Patane Kruse, 2007

Development and Validation of a Research-based Assessment: Reasoning about P-values and Statistical Significance
by Sharon J. Lane-Getaz, 2007

Identifying Self-Regulatory Factors that Influence the Academic Achievement Motivation of Underprepared College Students
by Seth Randall Langley, 2007

The Moral Judgment of Gifted Adolescents
by Ashley Elizabeth Lewis, 2007

Monte Carlo Evidence Regarding the Effects of Violating Assumed Conditions of Two-Level Hierarchical Models for Cross-Sectional Data
by Yukiko Maeda, 2007

Unit of Word Recognition as an Indicator of Reading Fluency: Use of a Lexical Decision Task
by Theresa Josephine Palumbo, 2007

The Effect of Social Identity, Social Power, Professor Gender and Race on Informal Student-Faculty Interactions.
by Jamie J. Peterson, 2007

Impact of Post-Discharge Habit Training of Self Care Skills on Independence, Caregiver Burden, and Development of Automaticity for Survivors of Recent Stroke
by Mary Vining Radomski, 2007

Teaching Students to Be Peacemakers: Implementing a Conflict Resolution and Peer Mediation Training in a Minneapolis K-6 Charter School
by Callie E. Walker, 2007

The Role of Connectiveness in the Comprehension of Spontaneous Spoken Discourse
by Jazmin Yomha Cevasco, 2007

Interrelationships and Gender Differences among Components of Morality for Dental Students
by Di You, 2007

An Exploratory Study of Predictive Validity and Diagnostic Utility of Cognitive Profile Patterns on the Woodcock-Johnson Psychoeducational BatteryRevised (WJ-R) Clinical Database
by Chikeung Chan, 2006

Race, Equity, and the Pattern of Opportunity
by Steven Andrew Culpepper, 2006

An Evaluation of a School-Based Program for Pregnant and Parenting Adolescents
by Juliet Melissa Fenyk, 2006

Confidence in Knowledge Past: An Empirical Basis for a Differential Decay Theory of Very Long-Term Memory Monitoring
by Jeffrey Grann, 2006

An Investigation of the Relationship Among Attitudes Toward Cooperation, Math Anxiety, and Mathematics Performance in Vocational Education Courses with an Enhanced Mathematics Curriculum
by Susan Kay Jensen, 2006

Constructive Controversy: A Long Overlooked Path to Moral Development
by Michelle Tichy-Reese, 2006

Effects of Peacekeeping and Peacemaking on Preschoolers' Competitive Conflict and Aggression
by Cary James Roseth, 2006

A Longitudinal Investigation of the Development of College Students' Reasoning About Bivariate Data During an Introductory Statistics Course
by Andrew Zieffler, 2006


Doctoral degrees awarded since 1981

October 2009

 

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