Dissertation Defenses
College of Education & Human Development doctoral students present and defend their final dissertations in public presentations that are open to faculty and other graduate students in the program.
“Examining Perceived Stress and Anxiety in Post-Stroke Aphasia: Exploring Self-Reports, Proxy Ratings, Qualitative Participant Experiences, and Non-Modifiable Predictors”
Hannah Griffey
April 14, 1-3 p.m., CEHD Room 833
“Measuring and Predicting School Belonging Perceptions Among Neurodiverse Students”
Allison Wayne
April 7, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., CEHD Room 977
“Putting the Perfectionism Social Disconnection Model to the Test: A Scoping Review and Three-wave Longitudinal Study
Hannah Wetstone
April 2, 9-11 a.m., CEHD Room 926
“Hyper(IN)visibility: Exploring and Transforming School Climate Experiences through the Lens of Black Girls with and without Disabilities”
Jhanelle Adams
April 14, 12:30-2:30 p.m., CEHD Room 926
“A Comprehensive Study of Factors Related to Teacher Stress and Teacher Well-Being”
Sneha Pimpalkhute
May 12, 1-3 p.m., CEHD Room 926
“Teaching Strategies, Methods, and Scaffolds Recommended by Mathematics Standards: Are they Reflective of Best Practices in Multilingual Pedagogy?”
Elizabeth Sanders
March 10, 1-3 p.m., COE Room 514
“Make it Make Sense: A Case Study Exploring Secondary School Leaders’ Sensemaking of and practices to support the Transition to High School”
Dominique Vidal Nichols
Feb. 11, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., CEHD Room 981
“Gender Differences in Locus of Control: Does Controlling for Response Style Bring Any Difference?”
Jingxuan Liu
March 25, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., WebEx Meeting
“Conceptualizing Education as an Economic Good: A Case Study That Describes the Tensions Experienced by School Leaders Amid Conceptual Misalignment Between School Leaders and Their Organizations”
Breana Mitchell
March 31, 1-3 p.m., CEHD Room 496
“Leading Ladies: A Hermeneutic Phenomenology of Black Women School Leaders in the Wake of Brown v. Board of Education”
Jairus Hallums
April 10, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., CEHD Room 496
“Heart Rate Validity of a Photoplethysmography Fitness Device During Sustained High Force Contractions”
Jason Wesley Thomas
April 14, 8-10 a.m., KH Offices Large Conference Room
“Motivational Factors in Choosing to be a Special Education Teacher”
Kelly Standridge
March 24, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., Zoom Presentation
“Math Talk: An Exploration of Verbal Scaffolding Practices in Middle School Mathematics Instruction”
Lynda Osborne
March 26, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., Zoom Presentation
“We’re Helping Them, But We’re Also Helping Ourselves: Transformational Processing of African American Boys in an Afrocentric Service-Learning Journey to Ethiopia”
Liya Endale
March 27, 3-5 p.m., Teams Meeting
“Examining Two Participatory Design Approaches to TeachLivE Mixed-Reality Simulation Development for Teacher Training”
Erin Anderson
April 14, 2-4 p.m., Zoom Presentation
“Math Lives Matter: A Case Study of Black Elementary Teachers Striving to Teach Mathematics for Social Justice”
Jerre Snead
Feb. 26, 9-11 a.m., COE Room 509 – Library
”Examining Teachers’ Attitudes, Beliefs, and perceptions Towards Cultural and Linguistic Discontinuity in the Elementary Art Classroom”
Ashley Maxey
March 11, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., Zoom Presentation
“Understanding Self-Identifying White Antiracist Teacher Beliefs About Teaching Difficult Topics in U.S. History”
Jennifer Broman-Fulks
March 13, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., CEHD Room 650
“An Exploration of Piano Classes in Georgia Public Schools”
Emily Grooms Eldridge
March 14, 1-3 p.m., Zoom Presentation
“Building Robust Mathematics Identities: The (Re)Living and (Re)Telling Stories of Black Male Middle and High School Mathematics Teachers”
Rogers Smith
March 14, 2-4 p.m., CEHD Room 608
“Stories of Resilience: The Internship Experiences of Students from Historically Marginalized Communities in a World Language Program”
Mathias Guerreiro-Aires
March 26, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., CEHD Room 650
“I Should Know, I Once Was a Black Girl: The Positionality of Black Women Science Teachers to Engage Black Girls”
Teresa Massey
April 2, 2-4 p.m., CEHD Room 650
“A Case Study of Conversation and The Middle School Fanfiction Writer”
Megan Lewis
April 7, 12-2 p.m., CEHD Room 650
“Prior and Current Experiences of Black Girls in Advanced Biology High School Courses: A Phenomenological Study”
Jessica Snead
April 10, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., CEHD Room 654
“I See You As A Person”: Black Women Secondary Science Teachers’ Considerations For Teaching Science To Black Youth”
Karin L. Mason
April 10, 2-4 p.m., CEHD Room 654
“Khong Phai Dang Vira Dau: A Counternarrative of Asian American Students Navigating through High School”
Peter Nguyen
April 14, 3:30-5:30 p.m., CEHD Room 654
“Art Education Practices with Emerging Plurilingual Learners Through Authentic Carino and Translanguaging”
Stephanie L. Birmingham
April 14, 12-2 p.m., CEHD Room 650
“Orchestra Directors’ Perceptions on the Inclusion of Culturally Responsive Teaching in the Orchestra Curriculum to Aid in the Recruitment and Retention of Black and Latino Students in String Orchestra Programs”
Krissi Davis
May 8, 2-4 p.m., Haas Howell Room 625
Prospectus Presentations
College of Education & Human Development doctoral students present and defend their prospectus presentations in public presentations that are open to faculty and other graduate students in the program.
The Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders does not have any prospectus presentations scheduled at this time.
“From the Vantage Point of Students with Emotional Behavioral Disorders (EBD): A Multi-Method Exploration of School Climate Perceptions”
Gina Norman
April 28, 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., Zoom presentation
“Which One Doesn’t Belong? (And Why?): Using Discourse Analysis to Investigate Authority in an Elementary Classroom”
Joshua Nelson
May 1, 4:30-6:30 p.m., CEHD Room 596
“HERstory Matters: Black Women Elementary Educators’ Storied History of Mathematical Identity Formation”
Sheniqua Pierce
May 6, 8:30-10:30 a.m., CEHD Room 596
“An Exploration of Recent Early Literacy Research of African American Children in Early Literacy Instruction”
Corey Evans
May 7, 1-3 p.m., CEHD Room 1025
“From Meta-Analysis to Policy and Practice: Understanding How Education Research is Interpreted and Applied”
Hannah Scarbrough
April 14, 9-11 a.m., Zoom Presentation
“Transadaptation of the Original Grit Scale (Grit-O) into Bangla for University Students in Bangladesh”
Roti Chakraborty
April 15, 9-11 a.m., Webex Presentation
“Bridging Guidelines and Practice: An Implementation Science Perspective on Statistical Rigor in Meta-Analysis”
Caroline Chubb
April 16, 1-3 p.m., Zoom Presentation
“A Qualitative Case Study Of Principal Supervision Support Structures In Urban Settings”
Nelson L. Render
April 24, 9-11 a.m., Zoom Presentation
The Department of Kinesiology and Health does not have any prospectus presentations scheduled at this time.
The Department of Learning Sciences does not have any prospectus presentations scheduled at this time.
“Learning from Teachers’ Experiences with Formative Assessment in the Secondary Mathematics Classroom”
Jeanine DeLatron Holihan
Feb. 18, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., CEHD Room 630
“Exploring the Lived Experiences of Black Girls in a Literary Society: Impacts on Educational Pursuits and Identity Formation”
Alicia Darian
March 24, 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., WebEx Presentation
“Black Teachers’ Professional Learning Communities and Black Literacies”
Alana Odom
March 31, 1-3 p.m., Zoom Presentation
“Teaching Hope: An Educator’s Experiences Teaching Gaza Children in War”
Ahmed Ahmed
April 28, 1-3 p.m., CEHD Room 650
“Why Do Parents Withdraw Their Children? Voices from Mandarin-English Dual Language Immersion Programs in the Southern United States”
Ji Ma
May 6, 2-4 p.m., Zoom presentation (meeting ID: 913 9367 1951; password: 443908)