Educational Psychology - Student News

Upcoming Dissertation Seminars

The Scholarly Community is cordially invited to share the final oral dissertation presentation by

Shawna Petersen-Brown

in partial fulfillment of requirements for the PhD in Educational Psychology, a thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota

Enhancing Maintenance and Generalization of Incremental Rehearsal through Theory-based Modifications

Thursday, April 25
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
10 Education Sciences Building

COMMITTEE:
Professor Jennifer McComas, chair
Professor Matthew Burns, adviser
Professor Kristen McMaster
Professor Jim Ysseldyke
Professor Sashank Varma

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The Scholarly Community is cordially invited to share the final oral dissertation presentation by

Mark Rose Lewis

in partial fulfillment of requirements for the PhD in Educational Psychology, a thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota

Using Testing to Potentiate Learning from Expository Texts

Monday, May 6
12:00- 1:00 p.m.
250J Education Sciences Building

COMMITTEE:
Professor Jeanette Gundel, chair
Professor Sashank Varma, adviser
Professor Mark Davison
Professor Keisha Varma

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The Scholarly Community is cordially invited to share the final oral dissertation presentation by

Lyle Noisy Hawk

in partial fulfillment of requirements for the PhD in Educational Psychology, a thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota

Traditional Lakota Concept of Well-Being: A Qualitative Study

Monday, May 6
1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
320 Education Sciences Building

COMMITTEE:
Professor Geoffrey Maruyama, chair
Professor Sherri Turner, adviser
Professor Susan Rose
Professor Jeylan Mortimer

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The Scholarly Community is cordially invited to share the final oral dissertation presentation by

Sarah Scholin

in partial fulfillment of requirements for the PhD in Educational Psychology, a thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota

Direct and Indirect Effects of Textbook Modality on Adolescents' Reading Comprehension and Engagement

Tuesday, May 7
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
10 Education Sciences Building

COMMITTEE:
Professor Mark Davison, chair
Professor Matthew Burns, adviser
Professor Sandra Christenson
Professor David O'Brien

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The Scholarly Community is cordially invited to share the final oral dissertation presentation by

Christopher Desjardins

in partial fulfillment of requirements for the PhD in Educational Psychology, a thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota

Evaluating the Performance of Two Competing Models of School Suspension Under Simulation: The Zero-inflated Negative Binomial and the Negative Binomial Hurdle

Friday, May 10
11:00 a.m. - noon
330 Education Sciences Building

COMMITTEE:
Professor Mark Davison, chair
Professor Michael Harwell,co-adviser
Professor Adam Rothman, co-adviser
Professor Ernest Davenport

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The Scholarly Community is cordially invited to share the final oral dissertation presentation by

Naomi Rahn

in partial fulfillment of requirements for the PhD in Educational Psychology, a thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota

A Comparison of Word Learning a 3-Year-Old Children At-risk for Language and Literacy Difficulties in Two Conditions: Dialogic Reading and Activity-based Intervention

Tuesday, May 14
9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
320 Education Sciences Building

COMMITTEE:
Professor Kristen McMaster, chair
Professor Scott McConnell, adviser
Professor Frank Symons
Professor Joe Reichle
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The Scholarly Community is cordially invited to share the final oral dissertation presentation by

Okan Bulut

in partial fulfillment of requirements for the PhD in Educational Psychology, a thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota

Between-Person and Within-Person Subscore Reliability: Comparison of Unidimensional and Multidimensional IRT Models

Tuesday, May 14
11:00 am. - noon.
330 Education Sciences Building

COMMITTEE:
Professor Mark Davison, chair
Professor Michael Rodriguez, adviser
Professor Ernest Davenport
Professor David Weiss

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The Scholarly Community is cordially invited to share the final oral dissertation presentation by

Peter Nelson

in partial fulfillment of requirements for the PhD in Educational Psychology, a thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota

Student Perceptions of the Classroom Environment: Actionable Feedback as a Catalyst for Instructional Change

Wednesday, May 15
2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
325 Education Sciences Building

COMMITTEE:
Professor Theodore Christ, chair
Professor Jim Ysseldyke, adviser
Professor Amanda Sullivan
Professor Lori Helman
Professor Debra Peterson

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The Scholarly Community is cordially invited to share the final oral dissertation presentation by

Cengiz Zopluoglu

in partial fulfillment of requirements for the PhD in Educational Psychology, a thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota

Assessing Dimensionality of Latent Structures Underlying Dichotomous Item Response Data with Imperfect Models

Friday, May 17
10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
10 Education Sciences Building

COMMITTEE:
Professor Michael Rodriguez, chair
Professor Ernest Davenport, adviser
Professor Mark Davison
Professor Niels Waller
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The Scholarly Community is cordially invited to share the final oral dissertation presentation by

Amanuel Medhanie

in partial fulfillment of requirements for the PhD in Educational Psychology, a thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota

The Robustness of Multilevel Multiple Imputation for Handling Missing Data in Hierarchical Linear Models

Monday, May 20
10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
330 Education Sciences Building

COMMITTEE:
Professor Ernest Davenport, chair
Professor Michael Harwell, adviser
Professor Michael Rodriguez
Professor Thomas Post
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The Scholarly Community is cordially invited to share the final oral dissertation presentation by

Breanne Byiers

in partial fulfillment of requirements for the PhD in Educational Psychology, a thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota

Functional Communication Training in Rett Syndrome

Monday, June 3
10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
330 Education Sciences Building

COMMITTEE:
Professor Susan Hupp, chair
Professor Frank Symons, adviser
Professor Michael Rodriquez
Professor Joe Reichle
Professor Arthur Beisang

Thesis Planning Panel

Doctoral students are required to submit the Thesis Planning Panel form by the end of the semester following completion of the oral prelim. If you completed your prelim oral in the fall, you should be submitting your thesis proposal by the end of this semester. If forms are not submitted in a timely manner, a hold will be placed on your record. Be sure to contact Kathy Walter (kwalter@umn.edu) if you need to request an extension.

Submitting Graduate Degree Plan

Students are required to submit a graduate degree plan for each degree they complete. Be sure to submit your degree plan according to the following timelines:

M.A.: After completing 10 credits (ordinarily no later than the second semester of your first year).

Specialist: After completing 20 credits (ordinarily no later than the second semester of your first year).

Ph.D.: After completing four semesters. The Educational Psychology Department requires doctoral students to submit their degree program forms to the DGS prior to taking the written general preliminary examination. This should be by the end of the second year of graduate study, and at least one semester prior to the term in which you plan to take the prelim oral exam.

For those who are approaching these deadlines, submit degree programs by Friday, May 3.

For detailed information on submitting the degree program, consult your track handbook and the Ed Psych Student Handbook.

Remember that degree programs can be changed in the future through a simple petition process. Be sure to submit the petition form prior to taking courses for which you are requesting a change.

PLEASE NOTE: A hold will be placed on your record at the DGS's request if:

-- You are in the M.A. program and do not submit your degree program form by the time you complete 14 credits;
-- You are in the Specialist program and do not submit your degree program form by the time you complete 24 credits;
-- You are in the Ph.D. program and fail to submit your degree program form by the time you complete four semesters.

You will be unable to register, to obtain a transcript, etc. until the hold is released by the DGS.

You will also need to submit your committee information online.

Doctoral students submit them at http://www.grad.umn.edu/students/forms/doctoral/index.html

Specialist Certificate students at http://www.grad.umn.edu/students/forms/postbac/index.html

Masters students at http://www.grad.umn.edu/students/forms/masters/index.html

Registration Reminders

Graduate students are required to register every fall and spring semester in order to remain active.

-- Be sure to register before the first day of classes in order to avoid paying a late registration fee. Courses with low enrollment are often cancelled prior to the start of the semester; don't lose your chance to take a course because you didn't register in time. See cancel/add information for details on making registration changes.

-- If you are working as a graduate assistant, are an international student, or are receiving a fellowship, you are required to register full-time (6-14 credits each semester).

-- Advanced masters or doctoral students may register using the full-time equivalent registration (EPsy 8333 or 8444). If you have completed all coursework and registered for all thesis credits, you may qualify. Please note that masters students must apply for this status in advance. Each semester you register under this status you'll need to submit the "application for full-time status with one-credit registration" form. Details and forms are available at http://www.grad.umn.edu/students/registration/specialcategories/

-- If you only need to register in order to remain active in the Graduate School, you may register for Grad 999, a no-cost/no-credit registration option. However, please note that EPsy students are only allowed to register for Grad 999 four times. More information about this registration option is available at http://www.grad.umn.edu/current_students/registration/special-categories.html#grad999.

--Upon registering for Grad 999 for the fourth semester, a hold will be placed on your record and you will be required to submit a completion plan with objective benchmarks.

-- Ed Psych graduate students may not register for more than 24 credits of EPsy 8666 (pre-thesis credits) during their graduate career. PLEASE NOTE: YOU MUST CONTACT KATHY WALTER (kwalter@umn.edu) IN ORDER TO REGISTER FOR EPsy 8666.

-- If you are planning to take the written prelim exam, be sure to check with your program area for the registration deadline. You need to have submitted a degree program or degree plan in order to register for the written prelim.

-- If you are taking your oral prelim within the first two weeks of the fall semester, be sure to return the Prelim Oral Examination Report to the Graduate Student Services (160 Williamson) immediately following the exam. You will also need to submit a copy of exam report form to 250 EdSciB on or before September 16 so that you can change your registration to EPsy 8888 (thesis credits) for Fall 2013. Note: You need to schedule your oral prelim with the Graduate School; see their website for the scheduling form.

-- Doctoral students may register for up to 6 doctoral thesis credits prior to passing the oral prelim exam if
a. the adviser determines the student is research ready,
b. the degree plan is submitted and approved,
c. the student completed 36 course credits that are included on the degree program/plan (masters courses may be included on the degree plan), and
d. the student submitted the doctoral thesis credit registration request form

Dissertation Seminars

The Scholarly Community is cordially invited to share the final oral dissertation presentation by

Ian M. Macfarlane

in partial fulfillment of requirements for the PhD in Educational Psychology, a thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota

Anxiety's Effect on the Experience of Supervision of Genetic Counseling Students

Wednesday, April 17
2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
10 Education Sciences Building

COMMITTEE:
Professor Thomas Skovholt, chair
Professor Patricia McCarthy Veach, adviser
Professor Salina Renninger
Professor Bonnie LeRoy

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The Scholarly Community is cordially invited to share the final oral dissertation presentation by

Wendi M. Schirvar

in partial fulfillment of requirements for the PhD in Educational Psychology, a thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota

Investigating Social Competencies in Students with High Intelligence

Tuesday, April 23
3:30-4:30 p.m.
330 Education Sciences Building

COMMITTEE:
Professor William Bart, chair
Professor Scott McConnell, adviser
Professor Sherri Turner
Professor Geoffrey Maruyama

Spring Commencement

The College of Education and Human Development is pleased to announce that the Spring 2013 commencement exercises will be held on Thursday, May 16, at 1:00 PM in Mariucci Arena. The Educational Psychology Department will host a reception before the commencement ceremony.

All active students will receive an email early in March inviting them to commencement. To be eligible to participate in the commencement ceremony, MA and SC students must have submitted their degree program forms; PhD students must have submitted the thesis planning panel form.

Be sure to RSVP by April 25.

Dissertation Seminar

The Scholarly Community is cordially invited to share the final oral dissertation presentation by

Russell Swinburne Romine

in partial fulfillment of requirements for the PhD in Educational Psychology, a thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota

The Effects of Causal Relations and Propositional Density in Texts on Item Difficulty in Reading Comprehension Assessment

Monday, March 25
1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
330 Education Sciences Building

COMMITTEE:
Professor Charles R. Fletcher, chair
Professor S. Jay Samuels, adviser
Professor Michael Rodriquez
Professor Sashank Varma

Submitting Degree Plan

Be sure to submit your degree plan according to the following timelines:

M.A.: After completing 10 credits (ordinarily no later than the second semester of your first year).

Specialist: After completing 20 credits (ordinarily no later than the second semester of your first year).

Ph.D.: After completing four semesters. The Educational Psychology Department requires doctoral students to submit their degree program forms to the DGS prior to taking the written general preliminary examination. This should be by the end of the second year of graduate study, and at least one semester prior to the term in which you plan to take the prelim oral exam.

For those who are approaching these deadlines, submit degree programs by Friday, December 15.

For detailed information on submitting the degree plan, see the Ed Psych Student Handbook.

Remember that degree plans can be changed in the future through a simple petition process. Be sure to submit the petition form prior to taking courses for which you are requesting a change.

PLEASE NOTE: A hold will be placed on your record at the DGS's request if:

You will be unable to register, to obtain a transcript, etc. until the hold is released by the DGS.

Graduate Student Research Day

Graduate Student Research Day will be held on Friday, March 1. The Educational Psychology Department instituted this annual event in 2001 in recognition of the abilities and talents of its students. This annual event has been designed with three purposes:

-- to provide a format for graduate students to present their research and be recognized locally by peers and faculty
-- to provide students an opportunity for professional development and practice for future state or national conferences, and
-- to promote a department-wide activity that brings faculty and graduate students together around a common goal of disciplined inquiry.

Proposal forms are available at http://www.cehd.umn.edu/edpsych/forms/default.html. Submit proposals to Kathy Walter (kwalter@umn.edu) by Wednesday, January 16.

Registration Reminders

Graduate students are required to register every fall and spring semester in order to remain active.

• Be sure to register by January 21 in order to avoid paying a late registration fee. Courses with low enrollment are often cancelled prior to the start of the semester; don't lose your chance to take a course because you didn't register in time. See spring's cancel/add information for details on making registration changes.

• If you are working as a graduate assistant, are an international student, or are receiving a fellowship, you are required to register full-time (6-14 credits each semester).

• Advanced masters or doctoral students may register using the full-time equivalent registration (EPsy 8333 or 8444). If you have completed all coursework and registered for all thesis credits, you may qualify. Please note that masters students must apply for this status in advance. Each semester you register under this status you'll need to submit the "application for full-time status with one-credit registration" form. Details and forms are available at http://policy.umn.edu/forms/otr/otr195.pdf

• If you only need to register in order to remain active in the Graduate School, you may register for Grad 999, a no-cost/no-credit registration option. However, please note that EPsy students are only allowed to register for Grad 999 four times. More information about this registration option is available at http://www.grad.umn.edu/current_students/registration/special-categories.html#grad999. Upon registering for Grad 999 for the fourth semester, a hold will be placed on your record and you will be required to submit a completion plan with objective benchmarks.

• Ed Psych graduate students may not register for more than 24 credits of EPsy 8666 (pre-thesis credits) during their graduate career. PLEASE NOTE: YOU MUST CONTACT KATHY WALTER (kwalter@umn.edu) IN ORDER TO REGISTER FOR EPsy 8666.

• If you are planning to take the written prelim exam in the spring, be sure to check with your program area for their registration deadline. You need to have submitted a degree program or degree plan in order to register for the written prelim.

• If you are taking your oral prelim by February 4, be sure to return the Prelim Oral Examination Report to the Graduate Student Services (160 Williamson) immediately following the exam. You will also need to submit a registration exception request on or before February 4 so that you can change your registration to EPsy 8888 (thesis credits) for Spring 2013. Note: You need to schedule your oral prelim with the Graduate School; see their website for the scheduling form.

• Doctoral students may register for up to 6 doctoral thesis credits prior to passing the oral prelim exam if

a. the adviser determines the student is research ready,
b. the degree plan is submitted and approved,
c. the student completed 36 course credits that are included on the degree program/plan (masters courses may be included on the degree plan), and
d. the student submitted the doctoral thesis credit registration request form.

Student Travel Funding

We are pleased to announce that the Educational Psychology Department is allocating funds for reimbursement of student travel this year. Award amounts will be up to $250 per student per year.

To qualify for these funds:

• You must be an active Educational Psychology graduate student.
• You must travel to and present at a national or international conference or professional meeting.
• Your faculty advisor must approve the travel.

Please note that these funds may not be used for state or regional conferences nor can they be used for training or workshop participation.

To receive reimbursement, you must submit all of the following to the staff member in your area:

Student Travel Funding Request form
proof of attendance
a copy of the conference program showing your presentation
original receipts for expenses for which you are requesting reimbursement. (Do not include meal receipts.)
signed and completed expense reimbursement form (available at http://intranet.cehd.umn.edu/EPsy/). Be sure to include detailed information about your travel: who, what, when, where and why. (For example, I traveled to Indianapolis, IN to present a poster at the national meeting of ABC Society, December 1-3, 2011. In addition, include a sentence on how your presentation benefits your research or project.) Detailed instructions are available at http://policy.umn.edu/prod/groups/president/@pub/@forms/@procurement/documents/form/um1612instructions.pdf) Note that we do not reimburse for poster printing.

Submit to your program staff within 30 days after the conference. Last date to submit for reimbursement is June 5.

There are other sources for student travel funding. Check with Grad SEHD (http://www.tc.umn.edu/~gradsehd/index_files/Page517.htm) and Council of Graduate Students (http://www.cogs.umn.edu/awards.html)

Dissertation Seminar

The Scholarly Community is cordially invited to share the final oral dissertation presentation by

Isadora Szadokierski

in partial fulfillment of requirements for the PhD in Educational Psychology, a thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota

Predicting Intervention Effectiveness from Oral Reading Accuracy and Rate Measures through the Learning Hierarchy/Instructional Hierarchy

Wednesday, October 17
3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
330 Education Sciences Building

COMMITTEE:
Professor Kristen McMaster, chair
Professor Matthew Burns, adviser
Professor Jennifer McComas, adviser
Professor Lori Helman

Privately-funded Fellowships: Upcoming Deadlines

The Graduate School has a competition for several privately-funded fellowships for the coming year. Applications and instructions are available at http://www.grad.umn.edu/fellowships/endowed/.

Two of special interest to Ed Psych students are the Eva O. Miller and the Wallace and Stout Fellowships. Most fellowship applications are due in the Graduate School by 12 noon, November 1, 2012. We can only nominate one student for the Wallace/Stout so we have an internal deadline of noon on October 16. Submit the application to kwalter@umn.edu

Dissertation Seminar

The Scholarly Community is cordially invited to share the final oral dissertation presentation by

Adam Lekwa

in partial fulfillment of requirements for the PhD in Educational Psychology, a thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota

Formative Assessment of Mathematics Learning for English Language Learners

Wednesday, September 19
1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
250J Education Sciences Building

COMMITTEE:
Professor Theodore Christ, chair
Professor Jim Ysseldyke, adviser
Professor Martha Thurlow
Professor Lori Helman

Dissertation Seminars

The Scholarly Community is cordially invited to share the final oral dissertation presentation by

Angie Pohl

in partial fulfillment of requirements for the PhD in Educational Psychology, a thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota

Personal Readiness Evaluation for Postsecondary (PREP): An Initial Validity Study

Thursday, September 6
9:00-10:00 a.m.
330 Education Sciences Building

COMMITTEE:
Professor Jennifer York-Barr, chair
Professor Sandra Christenson, adviser
Professor Michael Rodriguez
Professor Annie Hansen

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The Scholarly Community is cordially invited to share the final oral dissertation presentation by

Aolin Xie

in partial fulfillment of requirements for the PhD in Educational Psychology, a thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota

An Empirical Study of Bonett's (2009) Meta-Analytic Model

Friday, September 14
10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
250J Education Sciences Building

COMMITTEE:
Professor Michael Rodriguez, chair
Professor Michael Harwell, adviser
Professor Ernest Davenport
Professor Frances Lawrenz