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.
There are no dissertation defenses scheduled for the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at this time.
“Preparing Effective Urban Practitioners: The Study of Two Urban-Focused School Psychology Graduate Training Programs”
Kirnel Daniel
Feb. 27, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., CEHD room 1025
“School Counselors and Multicultural Counseling Competencies: Are We As Competent As We Think We Are?”
Vanessa Placeres
March 10, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., CEHD room 1025
“Applied Suicide Intervention Training for Inclusive Post-Secondary Education Staff: Intervention Skill Measurement, Skill Retention and Staff Attitudes”
Mackenzie Suttles
March 25, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., WebEx presentation
“Men’s Externalizing Depression Invariance of the Male Depression Risk Scale and Latent Profiles Among African American and European American Men”
Robert Alan Stewart
April 9, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., online presentation
“Examining Experiences of Cyberbullying Victimization and Corresponding Psychological Distress in Women of Color”
Joanna Menendez
May 1, 1-3 p.m., Zoom presentation (meeting ID: 115 517 160)
“How It Lives In Me Is the Work: A Critical Collaborative Authoethnography of a Mother and Daughter’s White Identity Development”
Margaret W. Dantzler
April 9, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., WebEx presentation (password: 5BXfiYxFw73)
“Bringing Clarity to the Construct: A Content Analysis of Dispositions for Urban Teaching and Learning”
Sarah Mia Obiwo
April 9, 2-4 p.m., WebEx presentation (password: dispositions)
“Aqui Estamos: A Portrait of Four Latinx School Leaders in Georgia”
Taylor Barton
March 30, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m, WebEx presentation (password: defense)
“What’s Culture Got To Do With It? Leadership for Culturally Responsive SEL Implementation”
Lindsay Welles Wyczalkowski
March 30, 1-3 p.m., WebEx presentation (password: defense)
“Perceptions of How Leadership Interactions Influence the Development of Collective Efficacy in Professional Learning Communities”
Toni Ross Weir
April 1, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m., WebEx presentation (password: defense)
“Influence of Transformational Principal Practices on Developing a Teacher Leadership Pipeline”
Deborah Lipes White
April 2, 1-3 p.m., WebEx presentation (password: defense)
“Perceptions of Transformational Leadership: The Effects of Organizational Justice for English Language Learners”
Graham A. Oakley
April 3, 1-3 p.m., WebEx presentation (password: defense)
“Understanding the Impact of K-12 Principals on African American Male Teachers Educational Self-Efficacy”
Sean Antonetti
April 7, 9:30-11:30 a.m., WebEx presentation (password: defense)
“The Implementation of Organizational Systems to Reduce Novice Teacher Attrition: A Case Study of One High-Needs School”
Eldread L. Nunnally, Jr.
April 7, 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m., WebEx presentation (password: defense)
“Exploring Assistant Principals’ Preparedness to Lead Diverse Schools as Culturally Responsive Leaders in an Urban School District”
Catana Harris
April 7, 12-2 p.m., WebEx presentation (password: defense)
“An Eyeball, a Rock, and a Purple Rubber Ducky: Portraits of Leaders Implementing AP and 18 Open Enrollment Programs Concurrently at One Urban High School in the Southeast”
Chanika R. Perry
April 8, 1:30-3:30 p.m., online presentation
“More than Free Speech: Politics, Higher Education, and the First Amendment”
Kristina Mickel Clement
April 9, 12-2 p.m., WebEx presentation (password: QKpZgjM3t45)
“Experiences and Perspectives of Graduate Teaching Assistants at a Large Urban University”
Justina Rodriguez Jackson
April 9, 1-3 p.m., WebEx presentation
“The Effects of Partitioned Pricing on Sport Event Ticket Purchasers”
Armin Marquez
March 4, 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., Sports Arena large conference room
“The Effects of Walking on Serum Lipids and Lipoproteins in Overweight and Obese Women: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis”
Anjulyn M. Ballard
March 9, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., CEHD room 1030
“Moringa oleifera Improves Skeletal Muscle Metabolism and Running Performance in Mice”
Siobhan Maureen Eze
April 13, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., WebEx presentation
“Captains at the STEM of Their Own Ship: An Examination of Underrepresented Minority Student Participation in a Self-Directed, ICT After-School Intervention”
Timothy Hicks
Jan. 31, 2-4 p.m., CEHD room 116
“An Analysis of Process at the Nexus of Instructional and Software Design”
Eric Scott Sembrat
Feb. 7, 2-4 p.m., CEHD room 116
“Competencies for Customer Education Professionals in SaaS Organizations: A Multi-Phase Analysis”
Julia Cerin Huprich
March 31, 1-3 p.m., Zoom presentation
“A Multimodal Analysis of Teacher-Student Interactions in Reading Recovery Writing Sessions”
Cindy Fujimoto
March 10, 1-3 p.m., CEHD room 650
“Unsolicited Narratives: The Experiences of Afro-Caribbean Women as Mathematics Learners and as Educators in U.S. Institutions of Higher Education”
Dihema R. Longman
April 2, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., WebEx presentation
“All Cultures Matter: Rachel Davis DuBois, the lntercultural Education and Group Conversation Movements”
Charles Lamont Hight
April 7, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., WebEx presentation (password: qY3fVGaRu33)
“‘Kids Can Change the World’: An Action Research of Latinx English Language Learner Students’ Experiences in Culturally Relevant Morning Meetings”
Darline Douangvilay
April 8, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., WebEx presentation (password: dVrFy4FEP82)
“Art Talk/Creative Talk Time (C.T.T.): A Framework for Using Student-Teacher Conversation as an Instructional Tool in the Art Room”
Erica Pendleton
April 10, 2:30-4:30 p.m., online presentation
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.
There are no prospectus presentations scheduled for the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at this time.
“Homelessness: The Influence of Choice, Relatedness and Mastery on Recovery and Well-Being”
Joshua Castleberry
Jan. 28, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., CEHD room 977
“Evaluation of Intensive Behavioral Interventions for Severe Avoidant-Restrictive Food Intake Disorder in Young Children”
Emily Kate Rubio
Feb. 26, 1:30-3:30 p.m., Classroom South 510
“Factors Predicting the Self-Efficacy of Instructional Coaches of Mathematics in Urban Elementary Schools”
Ayana Oden
Jan. 14, 2-4 p.m., CEHD room 509
“Elementary Teachers’ Perceptions of a Literacy Curriculum and Their Instructional Decision-Making in a High-Needs School”
Cletis Geraldine Kenya Allen
Feb. 13, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., CEHD room 596
“Cognitive Dissonance and Special Education Teachers: Examining Instructional Decisions in a High-Stakes Testing Era”
Alyse H. Showers
Feb. 13, 2-4 p.m., CEHD room 209
“Student Success According to Whom? A Black Aesthetics Critical Discourse Analysis of Institutional and Student-Defined Student Success and Black Students’ Visual Meaning-Making”
Natasha K. McClendon
Feb. 11, 1-3 p.m., CEHD room 409
“Exploring the Collision of Instructional Leadership and Destructive Leadership”
Amanda Merritt
April 6, 1-3 p.m., WebEx presentation
“Unlocking Cross-Divisional Sharing: A Multiple-Case Study of Vertical Collaboration in Independent Schools”
Wade A. Hanse
April 21, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., online presentation
“The Impact of Instructional Coaching on Teacher Efficacy in the Areas of Instructional Strategies, Student Engagement and Classroom Management”
John Hruby
April 22, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., online presentation
“Creating Digital Content for the Individual Learner: A Personalized Approach to Online Learning”
Genna Sengstacke McCurley
April 23, 1:30-3:30 p.m., online presentation
“An Observation of the Impact of Tailored Messages on Compliance During Desire2Move”
Ashlee Davis
Jan. 27, 4-6 p.m., Sports Arena room 137
“An Investigation of the Current Grading Practices of Secondary Physical Education Teachers”
Casey Hollibaugh
Feb. 14, 3:30-11:30 a.m., Sports Arena large conference room
“An Explorative Study into Online Kinesiology Courses”
Gi-cheol Kim
April 20, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., WebEx presentation (password: GOKH)
“Educational Attainment: What Does It Tell Us About Adults Who Struggle With Reading?”
Christine Dunagin Miller
Jan. 28, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., One Park Place, Suite 503
“A Mixed-Methods Study of Teacher Education Faculty’s Culturally Responsive Teaching Self-Efficacy and Outcome Expectancy Beliefs”
Shaneeka Favors
April 6, 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., WebEx presentation
“An Examination of Liberation Through Education at an African Centered School”
Sherman McKie
April 9, 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., online presentation
“Intercultural Competence and Critical Cultural Awareness in Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language: A Mixed Method Case”
Awad Awad
April 13, 12-2 p.m., online presentation
“An Examination of Peer Influences on Identity in the Art Classroom”
Nova Mead
April 23, 2:30-4:30 p.m., online presentation