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Schedule of Proposal Defenses and Final Defenses for October 2008 
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TO:       All Graduate Faculty

 

FROM:     Vicky Turner

          Doctoral Degree Coordinator

 


DATE:     September 30, 2008


 

RE:       Schedule of Proposal Defenses & Final Defenses    

          for October 2008

 

 

Oct. 2, Thurs.-3:30 pm, EDS 101/Metroplex 120, Jennifer LaPlante,
Proposal Defense

The Impact of Planning, Modeling, Observing, and Providing Feedback on
Third and Fifth Grade Students' Reading Achievement and Teacher
Attitudes

Major Adviser:  Dr. Wayne Linek

Graduate Council Representative:  Dr. Nathan Harness

 

Oct. 3, Fri.-10:30 am, EDN 113E, Brent J. Ringo, Final Defense

Equity in Texas School Funding:  An Analysis of the System Under House
Bill 1

Major Adviser:  Dr. Timothy Jones

Graduate Council Representative:  Dr. Haydn Fox

 

Oct. 10, Fri.-1:30 pm, EDN 202, Susan Bray, Proposal Defense

Relationship Between Master's-Level Counseling Students' Implicit
Attitudes Toward Race Beliefs Concerning the Causes of Poverty and
Multicultural Competency

Major Adviser:  Dr. Richard Balkin

Graduate Council Representative:  Dr. Sue Espinoza

 

Oct. 17, Fri.-10:00 am, EDN 107, Andrew Fisher, Final Defense

Faculty Perceptions of Students with Intellectual Disabilities in Public
Postsecondary Education

Major Adviser:  Dr. Sharon Johnson

Graduate Council Representative:  Dr. Dale Funderburk

 

Oct. 22, Wed.-11:00 am, EDN 113E, Bruce Gearing, Final Defense

School-Based Mentoring and Academic Achievement:  Connecting Students to
the Instructional Program Through Mentoring Relationships

Major Adviser:  Dr. James Vornberg

Graduate Council Representative:  Dr. Hugh Clark

 

Oct. 24, Fri.-1:00 pm, EDN 202C, Melissa Blair, Final Defense

Comparison of the Young Schema Inventory to the Million Adolescent
Clinic Inventory:  A Validation Study Using Adolescents in a Substance
Abuse Residential Treatment Facility in North East Texas

Major Adviser:  Dr. Linda Ball

Graduate Council Representative:  Dr. Ben Cranor

 

Oct. 24, Fri.-1:30 pm , EDS 205, Margie Garcia-Steiner, Proposal Defense

Reading Comprehension Instruction for Elementary and English-Language
Learners:  A Content Analysis of Professional Literacy Texts

Major Adviser:  Dr. Mary Beth Sampson

Graduate Council Representative:  Dr. Stephen Starnes

 

Oct. 28, Tue.-10:00 am, EDS 126, Mario Campanaro, Final Defense

The Effects of a Professional Development Training Protocol on Teacher
Implementation of Comprehension Strategy Instruction

Major Adviser:  Dr. Mary Beth Sampson

Graduate Council Representative:  Dr. Nikolay Sirakov

 

Oct. 29, Wed.- 9:00 am, AGIT 205/ Metroplex 120, Alesia Louise Cochran,
Proposal Defense

Posing and Solving Word Problems:  The Impact on Second Graders
Achievement Scores, Self-Efficacy, and Attitude

Major Adviser:  Dr. Wayne Linek

Graduate Council Representative:  Dr. William Thompson

 

Oct. 29, Wed.- 11:00 am, AGIT 205/ Metroplex 120, Leslie Russell,
Proposal Defense

The Impact of Thinking Maps on the Reading Comprehension of Elementary
School Students

Major Adviser:  Dr. Mary Beth Sampson

Graduate Council Representative:  Dr. Rex Carr

 

 

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