Fall 2024 - Spring 2025
PhD Thesis Defense: Alfonso Martinez
Friday, September 6, 2024; 10:00 AM; Zoom
Title: Topics in Bayesian Generalized Latent Variable Modeling
Committee Chair: Jonathan Templin
PhD Thesis Defense: Maria Slusarek
Monday, October 28, 2024; 11:00 AM; N111 Lindquist Center
Title: World Language Teacher Beliefs about Asynchronous Courses at Two-Year Colleges
Committee Chairs: Pamela Wesely; Maria Belen Hernando Llorens
PhD Thesis Defense: Kalen Zeiger
Monday, November 11, 2024; 9:00 AM; Zoom
Title: Trans Inclusive and Trans Competent Clinical Practices: Improving Clinical Intakes and Settings
Committee Chair: Jacob Priest
PhD Thesis Defense: Janet Sales de Oliveira Francisco
Tuesday, November 12, 2024; 1:00 PM; Zoom
Title: Adult Multilingual Refugees: Stories of higher education achievements.
Committee Chair: Erika Johnson
PhD Thesis Defense: Tasha Lindo
Thursday, November 14, 2024; 1:30 PM; Zoom
Title: Engaging in critical conversations with secondary school Asian American and Pacific Islander girls in an AAPI young adult book club
Committee Co-Chairs: Amanda Thein; Saba Vlach
PhD Thesis Defense: Tania Lefevre
Wednesday, November 20, 2024; 10:00 AM; Zoom
Title: Exploring the Experiences of Puerto Rican Teachers Resisting the Pull of Migration
Committee Chair: Liz Hollingworth
PhD Thesis Defense: Catie Mintz
Tuesday, February 4, 2025; 9:00 AM; Zoom
Title: Item Parameterization and Ability Estimation: Considerations for Bayesian Multidimensional Adaptive Testing
Committee Chair: Jonathan Templin
PhD Thesis Defense: Annette Vernon
Monday, February 24, 2025; 1:00 PM; S340B LC
Title: Text-to-Speech Technology as a Designated Support on Statewide Reading Assessment: Impact on Item Performance and Item Functioning
Committee Chair: Catherine Welch
PhD Thesis Defense: Faiaz Rahman
Monday, March 3, 2025; 10:30 AM; N111 LC
Title: How Collaboration Shapes Computational Thinking: Evidence from Iterative Block-Based Programming in Higher Education
Committee Chair: Kathy Schuh
PhD Thesis Defense: Stephanie Preschel
Thursday, March 27, 2025; 2:00 PM; S401 PBB
Title: Mind over math: The role of metacognition in college students' academic success
Committee Chair: Nicholas Bowman
PhD Thesis Defense: Mackenzie Kirby
Wednesday, April 2, 2025; 10:00 AM; N111 LC
Title: EXPLORING RACIAL SOCIALIZATION: USING PHOTO ELICITATION TO INVITE COLLEGE STUDENTS INTO DEEPER REFLECTION ON MESSAGING ABOUT RACE IN THEIR COLLEGE ENVIRONMENT
Committee Chair: Sherry Watt
PhD Thesis Defense: Hyeryung Lee
Monday, April 7, 2025; 10:00 AM; Zoom
Title: A Biclustering Approach for Detecting Cheating in Educational Assessments
Committee Co-Chairs: Walter Vispoel; Won-Chan Lee
PhD Thesis Defense: Jin Chang
Friday, April 11, 2025; 2:00 PM; N434 LC
Title: Am I Invisible?: Asian American Student Activism at the University of Iowa from 1998-2008
Committee Chair: Katrina Sanders
PhD Thesis Defense: Jeongmin Ji
Monday, April 14, 2025; 10:00 AM; S340B LC
Title: A Comparison of Different Machine Learning Methods in the Prediction of College Readiness: An Exploratory Study
Committee Chair: Catherine Welch
PhD Thesis Defense: Bing Gao
Monday, April 14, 2025; 1:00 PM; N262 LC
Title: Exploring the Acculturation of International Graduate Students: A Qualitative Case Study
Committee Chair: Pam Wesely
PhD Thesis Defense: Eric Field
Tuesday, April 15, 2025; 9:00 AM; 610 BBC
Title: Teaching to the Teachers: The Effect of an Educational Workshop Related to Twice-Exceptionality on Pre-Service Teachers’ Knowledge and Self-Efficacy
Committee Co-Chairs: Susan Assouline; Yanchen Zhang
PhD Thesis Defense: Emily Mozena
Wednesday, April 16, 2025; 8:30 AM; S350 LC
Title: Understanding Perspectives and Resilience of Adolescents with a Parent Diagnosed with Cancer
Committee Chairs: Kathy Schuh
MA Thesis Defense: Lingguo Meng
Friday; April 18, 2025; 10:00 AM; Zoom
Title: Moderated Non-Linear Factor Analysis Model: A Comparison of Bayesian and Frequency Methods
Committee Chair/Co-Chair: Jonathan Templin/Lesa Hoffman
PhD Thesis Defense: Yuchen Liu
Friday, April 18, 2025; 11:00 AM; Zoom
Title: The Impact of Storytelling on Intercultural Communicative Competence Development with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations
Committee Chair: Lia Plakans
MA Thesis Defense: Teri Schnelle
Friday; April 18, 2025; 2:00 PM; S104 LC
Title: The Academic Consequences of Student Arrests
Committee Chair: Lesa Hoffman
PhD Thesis Defense: Maria-Victoria Perez
Tuesday, April 22, 2025; 10:00 AM; N111 LC
Title: "You Can Tell They Try, You Can Tell There Are Resources": A Case Analysis of Institutional Contexts for College Student Mental Health
Committee Chair: Jodi Linley
PhD Thesis Defense: Daniela Cardoza
Tuesday, April 22, 2025; 12:00 PM; Zoom
Title: Undergraduate Student Experience in the Research University Survey: Investigating Measurement Invariance Across Institutions and Colleges
Committee Chairs: Jonathan Templin
PhD Thesis Defense: Carrie Wilbert
Thursday, May 8, 2025; 12:00 PM; N340 LC
Title: Video Relay interpreters and their experience with occupational stress, mental health counseling, and wellness. A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY
Committee Chair-Co-Chair: Susannah Wood, Ebonee Johnson