Northern Illinois University
Mathematics Education Doctorates
A. Ph.D.'s from the Department of Mathematical Sciences,
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Vicki Schell, 1991
Lenior Rhyne College, North Carolina
Ph.D., Mathematics Education, Director: Merlyn Behr
An Investigation of the Role of Symmetry in Partitioning
Tasks
David Klanderman, 1996
Trinity Christian College, Illinois
Ph.D., Mathematics Education, Director: Helen Khoury
Preservice Teachers' Level of Understanding Variables
and
Functions within Multiple Representational Modes
Esther M. Huntzinger Billings, 1998
Grand Valley State University, Michigan
Ph.D., Mathematics Education, Director: Helen Khoury
Qualitative-Based Reasoning of Preservice Elementary
School Teachers
in Proportion Situations
Jason Thrun, 1999
University of Wisconsin at Plattville
Ph.D., Mathematics Education, Director: Helen Khoury
College students' rational-number-as-operator
strategies: A focus
on
students' coordination of units and distributivity of operators in problem-
solving situations
Bharath Sriraman, 2002
University of Montana
Ph.D., Mathematics Education, Directors: Robert Wheeler, Alan Zollman, &
Harvey Switzky
A Grounded-Research Qualitative Study of Ninth Grade Students'
Generalization Processes in Combinatorial Problem-Solving Items - with
Connections to Mathematical Creativity
B. Ed.D.'s from the College of Education
Moti Shertzer, 1995
Ed.D., Educational Psychology
The effects of metacognitive and metasocial processes on mathematical
problem-solving skills
Lyle Harris, 1996
Ed.D., Curriculum & Instruction, Director: Frank Bazeli
An analysis of mathematical achievement, differential aptitude, academic
attitudes, and demographic characteristics of ability grouped ninth-grade
mathematics students.
Rich Wyllie, 1996
Ed.D., Curriculum & Instruction, Co-Directors: Helen Khoury & Frank
Bazeli
The effects of implementing a supplemental research-based instructional
unit on students' cognitive related obstacles associated with linear
equation solving in algebra.
Ellen Hines, 1998
Ed.D., Curriculum & Instruction, Co-Directors: Helen Khoury & Frank
Bazeli
Analysis of processes used by middle-school students to interpret
functions embedded in dynamic physical models and represented in
tables, equations, and graphs
McKenna, Neal 1992
Ed.D., Curriculum & Instruction, Co-Directors: Merlyn Behr & Frank
Bazeli
Relationships among community college algebra students' conceptions
of variable, working memory capacity, the complexity and context of
variable expressions, and their effects on the students' abilities to
unitize
variable complexes.
Keith Drew, 1999
Judson College, Illinois, Director: Nina Dorsch
Ed.D., Curriculum & Instruction
National vision and local practice: A discrepancy evaluation case study
of one teacher's geometry class
Marilyn Zopp, 1999
Ed.D., Curriculum & Instruction, Director: Carla Shaw
Mathematics anxiety, the adult student, and the community college