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I normally serve on 25-30 doctoral committees in Library & Information Science, Education, Writing Studies, and other programs, and am currently Research Director for eight of these. I have now served on committees for 60 completed dissertations, including serving as Research Director on 18 of those. I have also served as international examiner for dissertations from several other countries.

Students list includes current Ph.D. students for whom I have an Adviser, Research Director, or active Committee role, as well as those who have completed their doctoral study, with their dissertation titles and current positions. The list also includes students who have completed the Certificate of Advanced Study or Masters (with Thesis). Through research grants I directly supervise three graduate students and indirectly about a dozen others. I am also adviser for 31 GSLIS Masters students.


 
Active Ph.D. [Adviser / Research Director] 

Junghyun An, Curriculum & Instruction, Service learning in postsecondary technology education: Educational promises and challenges in student values development [Advisor/Research Director]

Jim Buell, Educational Psychology, development and evaluation of collaborative educational technologies [Research Director]

Sharon Comstock, Graduate School of Library and Information Science [Advisor/Research Director]

Deborah Gilman, Curriculum & Instruction; learner-directed curriculum and instruction; dissertation: Art as language and early literacy, educational dialogue groups, dialogue use in education, conversations of the young, multi-disciplinary and trans-disciplinary curriculum. [Advisor/Research Director]

D. Michelle Hinn, Educational Psychology; simulations, gaming, and virtual environments in formal and informal learning environments, children as designers of visual information, access to technology (particularly the accessibility of technology for persons with disabilities), evaluation of information technologies [Research Director]

Norma Linton, Graduate School of Library & Information Science, Informing ourselves through the ages [Advisor]

Luisa Rosu, mathematics education, Curriculum & Instruction [Advisor/Research Director]

Mihye Won, Curriculum & Instruction, technology in science education [Advisor/Research Director]


 
Active PhD [Committee] 
Nama Raj Budhathoki, Urban and Regional Planning; use of spatial data infrastructures [Committee]

Timnah Card, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Analysis and adaptation of 'earphone English': A public library program for limited English proficient youth[Committee]

Heekyung Choi, Graduate School of Library and Information Science; A qualitative study of students’ perceptions and expectations on college-level IT education [Committee]

Chris Devers, Curriculum & Instruction; technology in education. [Committee]

Susan Gregson, Curriculum & Instruction, Community of practice teacher education model [Committee]

Lara Cathleen Hebert, Curriculum & Instruction, Online communities for teacher development [Committee]

Ana Houseal, Curriculum & Instruction; inquiry-based learning in science [Committee]

Cameron Jones, Graduate School of Library and Information Science; Community inquiry labs [Committee]

Dan Kauwell, Educational Psychology, visualization of Internet based information, Internet-based learning and associated emerging technologies, and adaptive learning environments [Committee]

Mustafa Koc, Curriculum & Instruction; education in Turkey [Committee]

Yu-Hua Lan, Curriculum & Instruction, information technology, access issues, gender [Committee]

Ching-Chiu Lin, Art & Design; The changing nature of visual literacy in the information age: Three case studies of secondary school art teachers’ perceptions of visual literacy [Committee]

Muzhgan Nazarova, Graduate School of Library and Information Science; Service learning and career development: A case study in library and information science [Committee]

Kim Nguyen, Educational Psychology, technology and literacy; collaborative learning [Committee]

Claudia Rebaza, Graduate School of Library and Information Science; Information seeking [Committee]

Ruben Sariol, Educational Organization & Leadership, Technology integration into the curriculum [Committee]

Vandana Singh, Graduate School of Library and Information Science; online technical support communities for Open Source Software [Committee]

Derek Van Ittersum, English/Writing Studies, qualitative research of writers using computers, technology and literacy, history of computing [Committee]

Linda Vigdor, Educational Psychology; conceptual understanding of technology in relation to technology practices [Committee]

Virgil E. Varvel Jr., Curriculum & Instruction; Individual knowing in face-to-face and mediated contexts [Committee]

Noemi Waight, Curriculum & Instruction; Technology in pre-college science education: Toward a theory of balance and viability [Committee]


 
√ Completed Ph.D. 

Rae-Ann Montague, Graduate School of Library and Information Science; Riding the waves: A case study of learners and leaders in library and information science education [Committee]

Keren Moses Joshi, Graduate School of Library & Information Science; Literate attachments in a multilingual kindergarten: A case study, May 2006 [Advisor]

Juna Snow, Curriculum & Instruction; Stonesoup: Technology innovation, introduction, and use to support learner-centered education, May 2005; Assistant Professor, Diagnostic Sciences, School of Dental Medicine, Boston University [Advisor/Research Director]

Sherry Sullivan, Curriculum & Instruction; Elementary science education: Dilemmas facing preservice teachers, May 2005; Assistant Professor & Scholar-in-Residence (Greenman Elementary School), Aurora University [Advisor/Research Director]

Bharat Mehra, Graduate School of Library and Information Science; The cross-cultural learning process of international doctoral students: A case study in library and information science education, December 2004, Assistant Professor, School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville [Committee]

Ulrike Gretzel, Institute of Communications Research, Persuasion vs. personalization: Consumer responses to preference elicitation processes in destination recommendation systems, May 2004, Assistant Professor, Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences, Texas A&M University [Committee]

Dean Grosshandler, Curriculum & Instruction, Sustaining inquiry in an after-school science and design lab: The significance of the parts ecology, May 2004, Visiting Assistant Professor and Postdoctoral Fellow, Teacher Education, Michigan State University [Advisor/Research Director]

Linnea Rademaker, Curriculum & Instruction, A community arts advocacy group and its educational policies, actions and activities: A case study, May 2004 [Committee]

Youcheng (Raymond) Wang, Leisure Studies, Towards a theoretical framework of collaborative destination marketing: A case study of Elkhart County, Indiana, May 2004, Assistant Professor, Rosen College of Hospitality Management, University of Central Florida [Committee]

Adrian John Kok, School of Social Work, Situated evaluation of an interorganizational collaboration, December 2003; Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Social Work, Dominican University, River Forest, IL [Committee]

Jo Williamson, Curriculum & Instruction/Writing Studies, Teachers as change mediators in educational reform, August 2003; Director, Division of Instructional Technology & Media, Office of Information Technology, Georgia Department of Education [Advisor/Research Director]

Xiao-Hui (Christine) Wang, Curriculum & Instruction; Third space: Sharing a computer in a first-grade classroom [Winner of the AERA—Early Education/Child Development SIG Dissertation Award], August, 2003; Assistant Professor, State University of New York, Buffalo [Research Director]

Karen Lunsford, English/Writing Studies; Distributed argumentative activity: Redefining arguments and their re-mediation from a sociohistoric perspective, August, 2003; Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara [Committee]

Jennifer Robins, Graduate School of Library & Information Science; The role of a mediating information structure in a contextualized system, August, 2003; Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership & Human Development, Central Missouri State University, MO [Committee]

Jared Berrett, Educational Psychology; Teaching of technological literacy through a nonlinear approach: A case study of exemplary practice at Wood River Middle School, May 2003, Assistant Professor, School of Technology, Brigham Young University [Committee]

George Reese, Curriculum & Instruction; Technology-enhanced education reform: An historical analysis of the evolution of the Office for Mathematics, Science and Technology Education at the University of Illinois (1993-2002), August, 2002; MSTE Director, Office for Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education (MSTE), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [Committee]

Akihiko Takahashi, Curriculum & Instruction; Affordances of computer-based and physical geoboards in problem-solving activities in middle grades, August, 2002; Assistant Professor, DePaul University [Committee]

Jianxia Du, Education Policy Studies; Technology and quality of education for low-income minority students: Issues and policy implications, August 2002; Assistant Professor, Educational Technology, Mississippi State University, Starksville [Committee]

Michelle Kazmer, Graduate School of Library and Information Science; Disengagement from intrinsically transient social worlds: The case of a distance learning community, August 2002, Assistant Professor, College of Information, Florida State University [Committee]

Gicheol Han, Educational Policy Studies; A study of Jürgen Habermas's communicative rationality: An educational interpretation, May 2002, Post-Doc, The Institute of Asia Pacific Education Development, Seoul National University, Korea [Committee]

Cecelia Merkel, Graduate School of Library and Information Science; Uncovering the hidden literacies of have-nots: A study of computer and Internet use in a low-income community, May 2002, Post-Doc, Penn State University [Committee]

Aijun (Anna) Li, Curriculum & Instruction; Teachers using technology: Case studies of three elementary teachers, May 2002; Senior Evaluation Specialist, SERVE Center at University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC [Committee]

Laura Neumann, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Communities of practice as information systems: Humanities scholars and information convergence, May 2002; Usability Engineer, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond WA [Committee]

Steven Downey, Human Resource Education; University students' perceptions, interpretations, and preferences regarding two-dimensional and three-dimensional concept mapping, December 2000; Research Fellow, National Center for Supercomputing Applications' Knowledge and Learning Systems Group, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL [Committee].

Yulan Yuan, Leisure Studies; Managing changes: Evaluation of the implementation of network technology in the tourism industry, December 2000, Assistant Professor Department of Sport and Leisure Studies, National Dong-Hua University, Taiwan [Committee]

Beena Choksi, Educational Psychology; CARA (Child Abuse Risk Assessment): A situated evaluation of an innovative learning environment, June 2000, Visiting Specialist in Education, School of Social Work, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL [Committee].

Maureen Hogan, Curriculum & Instruction/Writing Studies; What is C.A.R.E.? The birth and identity formation of an alternative public middle school, May 2000, Assistant Professor of Education, University of Alaska at Fairbanks [Advisor/Research Director]

Kevin Leander, Curriculum & Instruction/Writing Studies; Classroom discourse, identity, and the production of social space [winner of the Education Alumni Association Graduate Medal], October 1999, Associate Professor of Language & Literacy in the Department of Teaching and Learning, Vanderbilt University [Advisor/Research Director]

Hui-Ju Huang, Curriculum & Instruction; Holistic aspects of children's ways of understanding in making sense of genetics, October 1998, Assistant Professor, Department of Teacher Education, California State University, Sacramento, CA [Advisor]

Punya Mishra, Educational Psychology, Flexible learning in the periodic system: The design of a multimedia hypertext for learning complex concepts in chemistry, May 1998, Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology, Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI [Committee]

Carole Janisch, Curriculum & Instruction, Reflective learning through collaboration: Middle school students reading, writing, and thinking, May 1998, Assistant Professor, Curriculum & Instruction, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX [Committee]

Kerry Ulm Ose, English/Writing Studies, Useable and transcendent truths: The story of one woman's subversion of academic discourse,May 1998 [Committee]

Shih-Kuan Hsu, Curriculum & Instruction, Connecting at a distance: Learner's perspectives and experiences with teleconferencing courses, October 1997, Professor, Center for Teacher Education, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan [Advisor/Research Director]

Christine Chin, Curriculum & Instruction, Students' learning approaches and their understanding of some chemical concepts in eighth-grade science, October 1997; Professor, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore [Advisor/Research Director]

Diana Beck, Curriculum & Instruction, Contexts of learning: Children's experiences in a summer science camp, May 1997, Assistant Professor, Science Education, Knox College, Galesburg, IL [Committee]

Richard Frazier, Curriculum & Instruction, Ways of working, Ways of being: A study of four children in a setting for learning science, August 1996, Associate Professor, Science Education, Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg, MO [Committee]

Ruey Chuan Cheng, Curriculum & Instruction, A case study of a third-grade teacher's literacy instruction in a racially mixed classroom, October 1996, Associate Professor, Division of Teacher Education, Providence University, Tai-Chung City, Taiwan [Research Director]

Ina Gabler, Curriculum & Instruction/Writing Studies, The writing classroom as a mosaic: Three perspectives, August 1996, Assistant Professor, Education, Millikin U., Decatur, IL [Advisor/Research Director]

David Michael Marcovitz, Curriculum & Instruction, Support for technology and innovation in the elementary school, May 1996, Associate Professor, Education, Director of the Graduate Program in Educational Technology, Loyola College, Owings Mills, MD [Advisor/Research Director]

Sue Ellen Williams, Curriculum & Instruction/Writing Studies, Teachers' written comments and students' responses: A socially constructed interaction, May 1996, Professor, English, Olivet Nazarene University, Kankakee, IL [Committee]

Eva Erdosne Toth, Curriculum & Instruction, Scientific inquiry in high school science learning: Collaborative research activities applying scientific visualization, May 1996, Researcher, Learning Research and Development Center, Pittsburgh, PA [Committee]

Shan-Mei (Amy) Tseng, Curriculum & Instruction, Solo accompaniments in instrumental music education: The impact of the computer-controlled Vivace on flute student practice, January 1996, Taiwan [Committee]

Shobha Sinha, Curriculum & Instruction, Children's response to multicultural literature in the classroom, October 1995, Assistant Professor, Central Institute of Education, North Campus, Delhi University, New Delhi, India 91 120 4613720 [Advisor/Research Director]

Judith Davidson Wasser, Curriculum & Instruction/Writing Studies, Living reading: The mutual construction of spirituality and reading, August 1995, Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA [Advisor/Research Director]

Lillie R. Albert, Curriculum & Instruction, A case study of the complexities of learning to teach problem solving: The effects of a writing process strategy model on seventh-grade students' mathematics performance, August 1995, Assistant Professor, Boston College, Newton, MA [Committee]

Hui-Fen Lin, Curriculum & Instruction, Science learning in one kindergarten classroom, May 1995, Assistant Professor, Shin-Zhu Teacher's College, Taiwan [Committee]

Youngcook Jun, Curriculum & Instruction, Learning to solve algebraic equations by teaching the computer, May 1995, Assistant Professor, Computer Science Education, Sunchun National U., Sunchun City, Chon Nam-Do, Korea [Advisor/Research Director]

Ruth Becker, Curriculum & Instruction, The second language writing of Chinese ESL students: Transfer and writing development, May 1995, 4th-grade Sheltered English in a transitional bilingual program, Waukegan, IL [Committee]

Sandra Levin, Curriculum & Instruction, The realizations of telecommunications in high school science classrooms: An evaluation of teachers' use of technology, October 1994, Visiting Assistant Professor, Curriculum & Instruction, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL [Committee]

Sook-Hi Kang, Curriculum & Instruction, The effects of computer-based, context-embedded approaches to second-language vocabulary learning, May 1994, Instructional Designer, Korean Educational Development Institute, Korea [Committee]

Martha Waggoner, Curriculum & Instruction, Will it work with my kids: Teachers' practical concept of effective reading instruction, May 1994. [Committee]

Jeanne Connell, Educational Policy Studies, Reconstructing a pragmatic theory of knowledge: A transactional perspective, Assistant Professor, Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL [Committee]

Deborah Winking, Educational Psychology, The match between current national assessment initiatives in reading and validated dimensions of authentic assessment, May 1994, Senior Consultant, Panasonic Foundation, Pleasanton, CA [Committee]

Colleen P. Gilrane, Curriculum & Instruction, Where will we talk about these things next year, when we're not in this class anymore?: Exploring the role of community in teacher education, May 1994; Associate Professor, Elementary/Language Arts Education, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN [Advisor/Research Director]

Montserrat Mir, Educational Psychology, The use of English requests by native Spanish speakers and its relation to politeness functions, October 1993, Assistant Professor, Illinois State University, Normal, IL [Committee]

Jane Montes, Curriculum & Instruction, Beyond computation in mathematics: An instructional study with third-grade bilingual Mexican-American children, October 1993; Assistant Professor, Curriculum & Instruction, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL [Committee]

Fangmay Lai Kunjung, Curriculum & Instruction, Effects of linear, hypertext, and hypertext with advisement approaches on computer-assisted learning, October 1993, Lung-Ching, Taiwan [Committee]

Yuangshan Chuang, Curriculum & Instruction, A quantitative corpus analysis of word frequency and part of speech in the English textbooks used at senior high schools in Taiwan, May 1993, Professor, English, Kaoshiung Normal University, Kaoshiung, and Chair of the National English Proficiency Test for All on the Web, Taiwan [Committee]

Raoul Cervantes, Educational Psychology, Every message tells a story: A situated evaluation of instructional networking, May 1993; Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology, Osaka, Japan [Committee]

Min-Ling Tsai, Curriculum & Instruction, The unintelligible voices that make sense: Ting-Ting and Ying learning to be preschool students, May 1993, Assistant Professor, Elementary Education, National Taipei Teachers College, Taipei, Taiwan [Committee]

Genell Harris, Curriculum & Instruction, Gateway to educational change: A situated evaluation of a FrEdMail adoption, May 1993, Associate Professor, Elementary Education, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT [Research Director]

Haesun Kim Chung, Educational Psychology, Factors that affect the use of instructional electronic message systems, August 1991, Seoul, Korea [Committee]


 
√ Completed CAS/Master\'s 

Noemi Waight, Curriculum & Instruction, Technology-supported inquiry in a sixth-grade science classroom, June 2004 [Committee]

Deborah Fuoss, Graduate School of Library & Information Science; Re-design of the web site for the ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education (ERIC/EECE), December 2002 [Committee]

Akihiko Takahashi, Curriculum & Instruction, An investigation of computer-instantiated problem solving (CIPS), June 2000 [Committee]

Don Crockett, Curriculum & Instruction, The use of formative evaluation in the development of educational software: A case study of Bird Walk 101, December 1999, The Virtual Birder, Boston, Massachusetts [Advisor/Research Director]

Jacob B. Scruggs, Curriculum & Instruction, The science and science fiction of 2001: An inquiry for high school physics students, 1997 [Committee]

Chris Burke, Curriculum & Instruction, 4-H Missions in Space: Changing student conceptions through experiential learning, July 1994 [Committee]

Hui-Fen Lin, Curriculum & Instruction, "Let\'s story!" Chinese preschoolers\' joint exploration of two picture books, 1993 [Committee]

Elizabeth Stuart MacDonell, Curriculum & Instruction, Designing an integrated approach to teaching and learning science: A pilot study of WEE Science, 1993 [Advisor]


 
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