[VPAAEtal] Schedule of Proposal Defenses & Final Defenses for March 2013

Wed Feb 27 15:41:50 CST 2013

TO:           All Graduate Faculty

FROM:     Vicky Turner

                   Doctoral Degree Coordinator

DATE:       February 27, 2013

RE:            Schedule of Proposal Defenses & Final Defenses for March
2013

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Fri., Mar. 1, 10:30 am, BIN 234, Tammy Dortch, Final Defense

The Lived Experience of Breast Cancer and Death Anxiety

Major Advisor:  Dr. Stephen Freeman

Graduate Council Representative:  Dr. Julia Ballenger

Fri., Mar. 1, 11:00 am, H of L 134, Ann-Marie Lopez, Final Defense

Negotiating Identity, Exploring Perception: Male Intercollegiate
Student-Athletes and Basic Writing Instruction

Major Advisor:  Dr. Donna Dunbar-Odom

Graduate Council Representative:  Dr. Daniel Creider

Mon., Mar. 4, EDS 101/MPLX 131/TEX MOB 235, Angie Gutsch, Proposal
Defense

Doing More with Less: Correlations Between Texas State Budget Reductions
and Economically Disadvantaged Student Achievement in Texas Public
Schools

Major Advisor:  Dr. Maria Hinojosa

Graduate Council Representative:  Dr. Joyce Miller

Mon., Mar. 4, 10:00 am, EDN 108, Fannie Albert, Final Defense

Computer Learning and Usage by Older Adults

Major Advisor:  Dr. Jon Travis

Graduate Council Representative:  Dr. Melinda Schlager

Mon., Mar. 4, 1:30 pm, EDN 108, Audrey Williams, Final Defense

Achieving the Dream: A Look at Hispanic Student Success at Community
Colleges in Texas

Major Advisor:  Dr. Joyce Scott

Graduate Council Representative:  Dr. Robert Williams 

Tue., Mar. 5, 9:00 am, EDS 101/TEXMOB 235/MPLX M120, Yi-Hsien Lin, Final
Defense

A Quantitative Research Investigation into High School Design and Art
Education in a Local High School in Texas

Major Advisor:  Dr. Maria Hinojosa

Graduate Council Representative:  Dr. Jacqueline Wahrmund

Tue., Mar. 5, 9:00 am, BIN 214, Marion Blake, Final Defense

Possible Selves in an Academic Setting

Major Advisor:  Dr. Stephen Reysen

Graduate Council Representative:  Dr. Kriss Kemp-Graham

Tue., Mar. 5, 9:00 am, EDN 113E, Kelley Estes-Jones, Final Defense

Beginning, Building, and Sustaining an Inclusive Public School
Education: A Study of Texas Programs for Preschool-Aged Children with
Disabilities

Major Advisor:  Dr. Casey Brown

Graduate Council Representative:  Dr. Brenda Moore

Tue., Mar. 5, 11:00 am, AGIT 233/MPLX 131, Richard James, Final Defense

Teacher Self-Efficacy in Understanding Standards-based Curriculum:
Finding the Gap Between Curriculum and Instructional Design

Major Advisor:  Dr. David Brown

Graduate Council Representative:  Dr. Arthur Borgemenke

Tue., Mar. 5, 1:30 pm, H of L 134, Danielle Brownsberger, Proposal
Defense

Writing on the Subject of Autism: Ethos, Aging, and the Politics of
Neurological Difference

Major Advisor:  Dr. Donna Dunbar-Odom

Graduate Council Representative:  Dr. JoHyun Kim

Wed., Mar. 6, 8:30 am, EDS 101/MPLX 120/ TEXK 235, Tonya Mamantov, Final
Defense

An Investigation of English as a Second Language Models (Pull-Out,
Co-Teaching, and Inclusion) on the Texas English Language Proficiency
Assessment System

Major Advisor:  Dr. Maria Hinojosa

Graduate Council Representative:  Dr. Stephen Reysen 

Wed., Mar. 6, 9:00 am , HofL 134, Sean Ferrier-Watson, Proposal Defense

Fearful Beginnings: The Evolution of the Nineteenth-Century American
Ghost Story for Children

Major Advisor:  Dr. Susan Stewart

Graduate Council Representative:  Dr. Chuck Holt

Wed., Mar. 6, 10:00 am, EDN 113, Travis Matthews Sr., Final Defense

Athletic Directors' Perceptions on Coaching Certification in the State
of Texas

Major Advisor:  Dr. Rusty Waller

Graduate Council Representative:  Dr. Harvetta Robertson-Henry

Wed., Mar. 6, 11:00 am, EDN 113, Amber Reed, Final Defense

The Effect of Instructional Delivery Mode on Student Success in
Developmental Mathematics Classes in a North Texas Suburban Community
College

Major Advisor:  Dr. Rusty Waller

Graduate Council Representative:  Dr. Curt Carlson

Wed., Mar. 6, 2:00 pm, EDN 113, David Sparks, Final Defense

An Analysis of Stereotype Threat in African American Engineering
Students at Predominantly White, Ethnically Diverse, and Historically
Black Colleges and Universities

Major Advisor:  Dr. L. Rusty Waller

Graduate Council Representative:  Dr. Stephen Starnes

Wed., Mar. 6, 3:00 pm, EDS 101/MPLX 123, Dana Jobe, Proposal Defense

The Influence of Teachers and Parents on the Academic Reading
Performance and Self-Efficacy of African American Males in Grades 3rd,
4th, and 5th

Major Advisor:  Dr. Jennifer Sennette

Graduate Council Representative:  Dr. JoHyun Kim

Thu., Mar. 7, 8:45 am, EDS 101/MPLX 131/TEXMOB 235, Sharonda Pruitt,
Final Defense

The Effects of 21st Century community Learning Center Programs on
Standardized Assessment in Texas

Major Advisor:  Dr. Maria Hinojosa

Graduate Council Representative:  Dr. Linda Openshaw

Thu., Mar. 7, 10:00 am, EDN 108, Michael Walker, Final Defense

Learning Communities in a Community College

Major Advisor:  Dr. Joyce Scott

Graduate Council Representative:  Dr. Aaron Cooper 

Thu., Mar. 7, 11:00 am, EDN 108, Carol Rosales, Proposal Defense

The Effects of Truancy on Completion Rates

Major Advisor:  Dr. James Vornberg

Graduate Council Representative:  Dr. Winfred Arnold

Thu., Mar. 7, 1:00 pm, EDS 101/MPLX 131/TEXMOB 235, Bradley Duncan,
Proposal Defense

A Correlational Study of Bilingual Programs Used in the Region 10
Service Area to Educate English Language Learners and Their Results on
the 5th Grade TAKS Reading Assessment

Major Advisor:  Dr. Maria Hinojosa

Graduate Council Representative:  Dr. Curtis Jones

Thu., Mar. 7, 3:30 pm, HofL 134, Akinbiyi Adetunji, Proposal Defense

Meaning-Making in a Nigerian Linguistic Landscape: The Example of Ibadan

Major Advisor:  Dr. Robert Baumgardner

Graduate Council Representative:  Dr. Derek Lester

Fri., Mar., 8, 2:00 pm, HofL 134, Kent Ross, Final Defense

Developing a Psychogeographical Literary Method in Transatlantic
Postmodern Fictions of Detection: Paul Auster's the New York Trilogy and
Martin Amis's London Fields

Major Advisor:  Dr. Hunter Hayes

Graduate Council Representative:  Dr. Nate Templeton

Fri., Mar. 8, 5:00 pm, HofL 134, Charity Adama, Proposal Defense

A Post-Colonial Analysis of Tanure Ojaide's The Activist and The Tale of
the Harmattan: Eco-Womanism and Visions of Environmental Justice 

Major Advisor:  Dr. Robin Reid

Graduate Council Representative:  Dr. Judy Ford

Mon., Mar. 18, 11:15 am, BIN 234, Holly Keddington , Final Defense

Complement Syntax, Mental Verbs, and Theory of Mind in Students Who are
Deaf

Major Advisor:  Dr. Steven Ball

Graduate Council Representative:  Dr. Kriss Kemp-Graham

Tue., Mar. 19, 8:30 am, EDN 113E, Lanny Mathews, Proposal Defense

Factors Influencing the Establishment and Sustainability of Professional
Learning Communities: The Teacher's Perspective

Major Advisor:  Dr. Chuck Holt

Graduate Council Representative:  Dr. Haydn Fox

Tue., Mar. 19, 9:30 am, BIN 234, Dawn Weatherford, Final Defense

Visual and Verbal Influences on Recognition Memory for Faces

Major Advisor:  Dr. Curt Carlson

Graduate Council Representative:  Dr. Donna Dunbar-Odom

Tue., Mar. 19, 10:00 am, EDN 113E, Kelly Moeller, Final Defense

Charter Schools: A Comparison of Charter Schools and Traditional Schools
on English Language Learners' Academic Outcomes in Texas

Major Advisor:  Dr. James Vornberg

Graduate Council Representative:  Dr. Chris Gonzalez

Tue., Mar. 19, 1:00 pm, EDN 108, Nikketta Wilson, Final Defense

Perceptions of an Induction Program From Beginning Teachers and Teacher
Mentors in an Urban School District 

Major Advisor:  Dr. Rick Lumadue

Graduate Council Representative:  Dr. Nathan Harness

Tue., Mar. 19, 2:00 pm, EDN 113, Patricia Williams, Final Defense

A Phenomenological Investigation of Secondary Teachers Who Successfully
Integrated Instructional Technology into the Curriculum

Major Advisor:  Dr. Casey Brown

Graduate Council Representative:  Dr. Martha Foote

Tue., Mar. 19, 2:30 pm, EDN 108, Cristal Joslin, Final Defense

SOS: Save Our Staff-A Critical Look at Texas Teacher Attrition, a Ten
Year Longitudinal Study (2000-2001 Through 2010-2011)

Major Advisor:  Dr. Rusty Waller

Graduate Council Representative:  Dr. Yvonne Villanueva-Russell

Wed., Mar. 20, 10:00 am, EDS 101, Stacy Carpenter, Final Defense

Perceptions of the Roles and Responsibilities of the School Resource
Officers in Traditional Texas Secondary Schools: Does Funding Make a
Difference?

Major Advisor:  Dr. Maria Hinojosa

Graduate Council Representative:  Dr. Joyce Miller

Wed., Mar. 20, 11:00 am, EDN 108, Gregory Shirley II, Final Defense

How Financial Aid Impacts the College Attendance Decision

Major Advisor:  Dr. L. Rusty Waller

Graduate Council Representative:  Dr. Jim Heitholt

Mon., Mar. 25, 10:00 am, H of L 134, Laura Di Ferrante, Final Defense

Small Talk at Work: A Corpus Based Discourse Analysis of AAC and Non-AAC
Device Users

Major Advisor:  Dr. Lucy Pickering

Graduate Council Representative:  Dr. Joyce Scott

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