Cultural and Social Identity and the Role of Insurance Status in Mental Health Service Utilization: An Exploratory Data Analysis Rita Rena Sandidge, 2020 Advisors: Scott McConnell and Andrew Zieffler
Memorable Messages from Mentors: A Qualitative Study of First-Generation Graduate Students Opal Ojeda (Cook), 2019 Advisor: Thomas M. Skovholt and Caroline Burke
A Meta-Analysis of Research Examining the Relationship between Mindfulness and Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms Kevyn Ziemann, 2019 Advisor: Patricia Veach and Thomas Hummel
A Word, a Shadow, a Breath: A Phenomenological Investigation of Therapists' Perceptions of the Stigma Experienced by Women Residing in Ireland Who Have had Abortions Meredith Anne Martyr, 2018 Advisor: Patricia Veach
Does having a school counselor matter?: A dissertation investigating school counseling in Minnesota Sarah E Cronin, 2018 Advisor: Marguerite Ohrtman
On the Frontier: Exploring Rural Psychologist Practice in Integrated Behavioral Health Care Thomas Dawson Allen, 2018 Advisor: Thomas Skovholt
Research Study of the Lived Experience of Alopecia Areata for Women During Early Adulthood Heather Rae Bemmels, 2017 Advisor: Patricia Veach
Supporting college students with autism spectrum disorder: College counselors’ perspectives Drew David Benson, 2017 Advisors: Thomas Skovholt, Sherri Turner
Understanding Emotion Regulation in Eating Disorder Recovery Nora Durkin, 2017 Advisor: John Romano
“Surviving Our History”: A Qualitative Examination of Continuous Traumatic Stress in a Sample of Afghan Women Sandra Newton, 2017 Advisor: Patricia Veach
Relationship between Women's Empathy and Their Experience of Violent Intimate Relationships: An Exploratory Study Cortney Del Duffy, 2016 Advisor: Patricia Veach
An Investigation of the Role of Psychological Altruism in Living Kidney Donors Michaela Leigh McLaughlin, 2016 Advisors: Caroline Burke, Patricia Veach
A Study of Highly Skilled LGBT-Affirmative Psychologists in College Settings Nicole Lee Park, 2016 Advisors: Thomas Skovholt, Caroline Burke
Validation and Extension of the Reciprocal-Engagement Model of Genetic Counseling Practice: A Qualitative Investigation of Genetic Counselor Goals, Strategies, and Behaviors Krista A. Redlinger-Grosse, 2016 Advisor: Patricia Veach
Secondary traumatic stress and posttraumatic growth: Risk and protective factors among American Red Cross disaster responders and disaster mental health workers Sarah Beckman, 2015 Advisor: John Romano
What matters for black students? A question of sense of belonging, campus climate, perceived discrimination, gender, and institutional satisfaction Shari Dade, 2015 Advisor: Sherri L. Turner
Key experiences in the adjustment of academically successful Chinese undergraduate international students at the University of Minnesota: A qualitative study Kangting Ji Heins, 2015 Advisors: Patricia Veach and Thomas M. Skovholt
Grief counseling best practices at university counseling centers: Current preparedness and future directions Yang-Hyang Kim, 2015 Advisor: Sherri L. Turner
Effects of PREPARE/ENRICH couple relationship education for Chinese college students in heterosexual exclusive dating relationships Ziqiu Li, 2015 Advsior: John Romano
Creation and validation of a scale to measure the reluctance to video record individual Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) sessions Sonal Markanda, 2015 Advisor: Kay Herting Wahl
Qualitative study of the development and maintainance of pathological gambling in females: And making the choice to recover Kerry O'Brien, 2015 Advisor: Sherri L. Turner
An investigation of virtues (derived from character strengths) in relation to psychological adjustment among Chinese international college students Weiyang Xie, 2015 Advisor: Sherri L. Turner
Psychological Foundations of Education
Social-emotional learning in higher education: Examining the relationship between social-emotional skills and students’ academic success Isabel Lopez Hurtado, 2020 Advisor: Geoffrey Maruyama
Revising Misconceptions Using Multiple Documents Reese Butterfuss, 2020 Advisor: Pani Kendeou
Pulling back the curtain on stereotype threat: Testing a mediation framework of identity change and belongingness Anthony Joseph Schulzetenberg, 2020 Advisor: Geoffrey Maruyama
The Roles of Convergent, Divergent Thinking, and Contextual Focus during Scientific Reasoning: Birth of the “Z” Model Jean-Baptiste Quillien, 2019 Advisors: Keisha Varma and Wilma Koutstaal
Social Capital, Self-Control, and Academic Performance in School-Age Children and Adolescents: Patterns Associated with Race/Ethnicity Wei Song, 2018 Advisors: Geoffrey Maruyama and Zha Xiong
The Development of Arithmetic Sense and Its Predictive Relationship to Mathematical Achievement Soo-hyun Im, 2018 Advisor: Sashank Varma
Gender, Leadership, and Navigating through the Hierarchy: Behavioral Patterns and Managers’ Assessments of Performance, Promotion Potential and Career Derailment Carolyn R Dienhart, 2018 Advisor: Geoffrey Maruyama
Implicit Learning in Science: Activating and Suppressing Scientific Intuitions to Enhance Conceptual Change Jeremy Y Wang, 2018 Advisor: Keisha Varma
Incorporating Response Times in Item Response Theory Models of Reading Comprehension Fluency Shiyang Su, 2017 Advisors: William Bart, Keisha Varma
Social emotional competence: Culturally-bound or Context-free? Lara D. Westerhof, 2017 Advisors: Geoffrey Mauyama, Steve Yussen
Reducing Hindsight Bias: Tests of a Retrieval-Based Theory Martin Van Boekel, 2016 Advisors: Sashank Varma, Geoffrey Maruyama
A Twist Of Positive Youth Development: Maladaptive Self-Regulation In Early Adolescence Yuefeng Hou, 2016 Advisor: Geoffrey Maruyama
The Role of Rational Numbers in Mathematical Achievement and Decision Making James Houseworth, 2016 Advisors: Sashank Varma, Keisha Varma
The association between math teachers' moral judgment development and self-efficacy beliefs, and their relationship with student achievement Julia Chears-Young, 2014 Advisors: Geoffrey Maruyama and Muriel Bebeau
How people reason: A grounded theory of scientific reasoning about global climate change Shiyu Liu, 2014 Advisor: Frances P. Lawrenz
Quantitative Methods in Education
Using psychometric models to measure social and emotional learning constructs Mireya Carmen-Martinez Smith, 2020 Advisor: Micheal Rodriguez
Use of Aggregated Covariates in Propensity Score Analysis of Clustered Data Kyle Nickodem, 2020 Advisor: Ernest Davenport
IRT Branching Models for Individual Differences in Dual-Processing Theory of Reading Comprehension Bowen Liu, 2020 Advisor: Mark Davison
Standardized Bilingual Assessments: A Means to Reduce Construct-Irrelevant Variance and Ethnic/Racial Stereotype Threat Julio Caesar, 2020 Advisor: Michael Rodriguez
Growing Certain: Students’ Mechanistic Reasoning about the Empirical Law of Large Numbers Ethan Brown, 2019 Advisors: Robert delMas and Andrew Zieffler
Asian Americans in Educational Research: The Use of Disaggregated Racial and Ethnic Subgroup Data Mao Jacobson, 2019 Advisor: Frances Lawrenz
The Effect of Test Speededness Control Within A Computerized Adaptive Multi-Stage Framework Qinjun Wang, 2019 Advisor: Ernest Davenport
Bayesian Modeling of Associations in Bivariate Mixed-Effects Models for Segmented Growth Curves Yadira Peralta Torres, 2018 Advisors: Mark Davison and Nidhi Kohli
Using Multiple Regression to Ascertain Group Differences in the Relationship of Predictors to a Criterion: Ethnic Group Differences in the Relationship between Course- taking and Achievement in Mathematics Kyungin Park, 2018 Advisor: Ernest Davenport
Examining Power and Type 1 Error for Step and Item Level Tests of Invariance: Investigating the Effect of the Number of Item Score Levels Alicia Nicole Ayodele, 2017 Advisor: Ernest Davenport
Assessing the Development of Students' Statistical Thinking: An Exploratory Study Laura Jean Le, 2017 Advisor: Zieffler, Andrew
Identifying Aberrant Responding: Use of Multiple Measures Susan Christa Steinkamp, 2017 Advisor: Michael Rodriguez
Introductory statistics students’ conceptual understanding of study design and conclusions Elizabeth Fry, 2017 Advisor: Robert delMas
Development and Validation of a Survey to Measure Perceived Team Communication Skills in Middle and High School STEM Out-of-School Time Programs Amy Grack Nelson, 2017 Advisor: Frances Lawrenz
The Impact of Heavy-tailed Error Distributions on Partially Nested Randomized Controlled Trials Models Mario Moreno, 2017 Advisor: Michael Harwell
Check Int CR- Evaluating Statewide School Accountability Systems: Comparison of Growth Models Katherine D. Edwards, 2016 Advisors: Frances Lawrenz, Nidhi Kohli
EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STATISTICAL LITERACY AND STATISTICAL REASONING Anelise Guimaraes Sabbag, 2016 Advisors: Joan Garfield, Andrew Zieffler
Modeling Item Features that Characterize Measurement Bias Luke David Stanke, 2016 Advisor: Michael Rodriguez
A restricted bi-factor model of subdomain relative strengths and weaknesses Yu-Feng Chang, 2015 Advisor: Mark Davison
Simulating the Effects of Test Score Reliability and Test Dimensionality on Teacher Value-Added Scores and Inferences. Danielle N. Dupuis, 2015 Advisor: Michael Rodriguez
Improving the use of subscores on a test battery: Some reliability and validity evidence from the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children- Fourth Edition Lan Huang, 2015 Advisor: Mark Davison
A spatial regression discontinuity evaluation of Minnesota's Quality Compensation for Teachers Program Christopher Moore, 2015 Advisors: Ernest Davenport and Frances Lawrenz
Quantifying quality: The effects of score transformation method and school demographics on school rankings under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Alison Phillips, 2015 Advisors: Frances Lawrenz and Andrew Zieffler
School Psychology
How Teacher Self-efficacy and Mindset Influence Student Engagement and Math Performance Andrew Thayer, 2020 Advisors: Clayton Cook and Theodore Christ
Supporting Fidelity of Implementation of Class-wide Behavioral Interventions Jenna Klaft, 2020 Advisors: Robin Codding and Amanda Sullivan
Universal Factors and Tier 1 Interventions Associated with Quality Student-Teacher Relationships Laurie Kincade, 2020 Advisor: Amanda Sullivan
Screening for Social-Emotional and Behavioral Aspects of Kindergarten Readiness: A Systematic Review of Screeners and Validation of BASC-3 BESS Teacher for Somali Students Alaa Houri, 2020 Advisor: Amanda Sullivan and Faith Miller
An Exploratory Study of Trauma Screening Procedures and Instruments in Schools Sophia Frank, 2020 Advisors: Clayton Cook and Amanda Sullivan
Profiles of Parental Mental Health and Children’s Academic Coping Aria Fiat, 2020 Advisors: Clayton Cook and Amanda Sullivan
The Differential Effects of Elaborated Task and Process Feedback on Multi-digit Multiplication Rebecca Edmunds, 2020 Advisors: Robin Codding and Amanda Sullivan
Sources of variance in reading comprehension research: The role of measures and interventions Calvary Diggs, 2020 Advisor: Theodore Christ
Mathematics Computation: Generalizability and Dependability of Student Performance by Sample Size Danielle Becker, 2020 Advisors: Theodore Christ and Amanda Sullivan
Exploring Relationships among Organizational Factors, Teachers' Attitudes toward Evidence-Based Practices, and Implementation of Universal Prevention Programs Yanchen Zhang, 2019 Advisors: Clayton Cook and Amanda Sullivan
Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Mathematics Word Problem Solving with English Learners Leila C Jones, 2019 Advisors: Robin Codding and Amanda Sullivan
Influence of Head Start Lead Teacher Profiles on the Relation between Coaching and Intervention Fidelity Stephanie Brunner, 2019 Advisor: Amanda Sullivan
Effectiveness and Key Components of School-Based Anxiety Interventions Victoria Erhardt, 2019 Advisors: Annie Hansen-Burke and Faith Miller
Engagement versus Motivation: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Motivation and Engagement Wheel Alyssa Schardt, 2019 Advisor: Faith Miller
Examining the Structural Validity of the My Class Inventory – Short Form for Teachers (TMCI-SF) in Early Elementary School Classrooms Chloe Webb, 2019 Advisors: Amanda Sullivan, Clayton Cook
The Effects and Generalization of a Choice-Based Intervention with Highly preferred Items on Student Off-Task Behavior Gregory R Simonson, 2018 Advisor: Amanda Sullivan
Training Educators to Implement Mindfulness-Based Interventions: Evaluating the Effects of In-Service and Coaching on Intervention Fidelity Laura Marie Potter, 2018 Advisor: Scott McConnell
An evaluation of the use of oral reading fluency as a screening tool with emerging biliterates Kirsten Newell, 2018 Advisor: Robin Codding
Influence of Child Find Referral Mechanisms on Early Childhood Special Education Participation Elyse McCullough Farnsworth, 2018 Advisor: Amanda Sullivan
Summer Learning Loss in Reading Achievement: Effects of Demographic Variables and Summer Activity Julia Baker, 2018 Advisor: Theodore Christ
The Relation between Parent Involvement and the Development of Kindergarten Self-Regulation and Literacy Skills Amber Hays, 2018 Advisor: Scott McConnell
Investigating Young Children’s Attitudes toward Mathematics: Improved Measurement and the Relation to Achievement Allyson Kiss, 2018 Advisor: Theodore Christ
The Effectiveness of the ACHIEVER Adult Resilience Curriculum in Promoting Teacher Wellbeing Elizabeth Margaret Christian, 2017 Advisors: Amanda Sullivan, Clayton Cook
Sexual minority youth diversity and resilience Jessie Marie Kember, 2017 Advisors: Theodore Christ, Annie Hansen-Burke
Prevalence of Youth with Disabilities in the Juvenile Justice System Aleksis Paul Kincaid, 2017 Advisor: Amanda Sullivan
Student-Centered Analyses of Classroom Perceptions and their Prediction of Student Disengagement Joseph Andrew Demers, 2016 Advisor: Christ, Theodore
Investigating Why Phrase Drill Works: The Effects of Modeling and Sentence Repetition on Student Oral Reading Fluency Skills Lynn Marie Edwards, 2016 Advisor:Burns, Matthew
A Comparison of Targeted and Multicomponent Small-Group Reading Interventions in Early Elementary Grades. Hall, Matthew Steven 2016 Advisors: Matthew Burns, Theodore Christ
Relationship between the Learning Hierarchy and Academic Achievement on Strategies Used by Third-Grade Students when Solving Multiplication Word Problems Rebecca Ann Kanive, 2016 Advisors: Matthew Burns, Theodore Christ
Intervening with the Interventionist: Matching Interventions for Treatment Integrity to Stages of the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change Abbey C. Karich, 2016 Advisors: Matthew Burns, Theodore Christ
School Psychologists' Consistency and Confidence in Learning Disability Identification: The Impact of Identification Methodology and Inconclusive Student Data Kathrin E. Maki, 2016 Advisors: Matthew Burns, Amanda Sullivan
The Comparative Effects of Dyad Mathematics Interventions on Improving Multiplication Proficiency Sandra Moran Pulles, 2016 Advisors: Matthew Burns, Theodore Christ
School Psychologists’ Decision Making in Evaluations for Emotional Disturbance Shanna S. Sadeh, 2016 Advisors: Amanda Sulliva, Matthew Burns
Defining and Measuring School Readiness using Confirmatory Factor Analysis Techniques Jenna Marie Ward, 2016 Advisors: Annie Hansen-Burke, Theodore Christ
The influence of parenting stress and social support on parenting behavior during a preventative parenting education program for enhancing school readiness Kate Clayton, 2015 Advisors: Theodore J. Christ and Scott McConnell
Examining the effects of an attribution retraining intervention on the attributions and engagement of alternative school students Maureen Cooper, 2015 Advisor: Sandra Christenson
Determinants of school completion: Student perceptions of success at an experiential learning high school. Elizabeth Mary Hagen, 2015 Advisor: Christenson, Sandra
Parental trust of schools and its role in postsecondary readiness Rosalie Palan, 2015 Advisor: Sandra Christenson
An evaluation of the accuracy of time series interpretations of CBM-R progress monitoring data Ethan Van Norman, 2015 Advisor: Theodore J. Christ
A proposed algebra problem-analysis model Christopher Walick, 2015 Advisors: Matthew Burns and Theodore Christ
Using Measures of Mathematics to Predict Response to Supplemental Intervention. Anne Follen Zaslofsky, 2015 Advisors: Matthew Burns, Theodore Christ
Special Education
A Meta-analysis on the Effects of Vocabulary Instruction for English Learners Ellina Xiong, 2020 Advisors: Jennifer McComas and Kristen McMaster
Child and Evaluation Characteristics Predicting Educational Eligibility of Autism Spectrum Disorder: Examining the Role of Race and Ethnicity Kelsey Ann Young, 2020 Advisors: LeAnne Johnson and Jason Wolff
Exploring Determinants of Early Childhood Special Educators' Practice Selections for Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Maria Lemler Hugh, 2020 Advisors: LeAnne Johnson and Veronica Fleury
The Use of Generalizability Theory to Inform Sampling of Language Learning Environments for Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Andrea Lynn Boh Ford, 2020 Advisor: LeAnne Johnson
Examination Of Three Practice Schedules for Single Digit Math Kyle B Wagner, 2019 Advisor: Kristen McMaster
The IEP Data Collection Intentions Scale (IDCIS): Scale Development and Validation for Intended Score Interpretation and Use in Early Childhood Brenna Noland Rudolph, 2019 Advisor: LeAnne Johnson
Using Brief Experimental Analysis to Identify Effective Mathematics Fluency Intervention for Students in Middle SchoolJohn Mouanoutoua, 2019Advisor: Jennifer McComas
The Effect of Parent-Implemented Functional Communication Training on Challenging Behavior and Communication: A Meta-Analysis Brittany Pennington, 2019 Advisors: Jason Wolff and Kristen McMaster
Redefining the Word Gap from a Cumulative Risk Perspective Erin Lease, 2018 Advisor: Scott McConnell
Conflicting Relations Paradigm: The Effects of A Stimulus Equivalence-Based Approach to Changing Bias Robert Henery, 2018 Advisor: Jennifer McComas
The impact of a delay to early intensive behavioral intervention on educational outcomes for a cohort of medicaid-enrolled children with autism Adele Faye Dimian, 2017 Advisors: Frank Symons, LeAnne Johnson
The Effects of Combining Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies and Incremental Rehearsal on Non-Spanish-Speaking English Language Learners’ Reading Achievement Amy Bethel Leinen, 2017 Advisors: Kristen McMaster, Asha Jitendra
The Effects of Early Numeracy Interventions for Students in Preschool and Early Elementary: A Meta-Analysis Gena Nelson, 2017 Advisor: Theodore Christ
Relations between CBM (Oral Reading and Maze) and Reading Comprehension on State Achievement Tests: A Meta-Analysis Jaehyun Shin, 2017 Advisor: Kristen McMaster
Examining Generalization Performance in a Conditional Discrimination Task for Learners with Moderate to Severe Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Mo Chen, 2016 Reichle, Joe
The Classroom Learning Activities Checklist: Validity Evidence of an Observation Tool in Preschool Candee, Allyson Joelle 2016 Advisor: McConnell, Scott
Exploring Early Childhood Language Environments: A Comparison of Language Exposure, Use and Interaction in the Home and Child Care Settings Anne Larson, 2016 Advisor: Scott McConnell
Effectiveness of Mathematical Word Problem Solving Interventions for Students with Learning Disabilities and Mathematics Difficulties: A Meta-Analysis Amy E. Lein, 2016 Advisor: Asha Jitendra
An examination of fidelity of two parent-implemented vocabulary interventions for young learners with autism spectrum disorder Quannah Elizabeth Parker-Mcgowan, 2016 Advisor: Joe Reichle
Communication intervention for children with severe neurodevelopmental disabilities: An application of telehealth as a service delivery mechanism Jessica Jo Simacek, 2016 Advisor: Jennifer McComas
Repeated reading with and without vocabulary instruction: Outcomes for English language learners Dana Brandes, 2015 Advisor: Kristen McMaster
Effects of data-based instruction for students with intensive early writing needs: A randomized control trial Pyung-Gang Jung, 2015 Advisor: Kristen McMaster
Technical characteristics of e-based vs. paper-pencil CBM tasks for students who are deaf and hard of hearing. Elizabeth Anne Lam, 2015 Advisors: Kristen McMaster, Susan Rose
Social Communication Across Language Environments in Nonverbal Children with ASD from English and non-English Speaking Families. Emily Rudrud Monn, 2015 Advisor: Jennifer McComas
Word Identification for Children who are Deaf/Hard of Hearing. Brooke A. Peterson, 2015 Advisor: Susan Rose
The effects of computer-assisted instruction in reading: A meta-analysis Amy Kunkel, 2015 Advisor: Kristen McMaster
An investigation into the validity of using a CSA to inform hypotheses regarding student behavior Meredith Peterson, 2015 Advisor: Jennifer McComas
Examining Special Educators Verbal Responsiveness in Groups of Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Qian, Xueqin 2015 Advisor: Joe Reichle
Examining Effects of a Repeated Reading Intervention and Predictive Effects of Student Inputs. Stephanie Marie Snidarich, 2015 Advisor: Jennifer McComas