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With regard to higher education, my interests include First-Year Programs, First-Year Experiences, and Learning Communities. I completed a Ph.D. degree in Educational Policy Studies with a concentration in Higher Education in 2006. My dissertation supervisor was Dr. Philo A. Hutcheson. Dr. William Curlette, Dr. John Neel, and Dr. Russell Irvine were also very valuable Dissertation Committee members. My doctoral dissertation investigated college student outcomes and assessment in the mathematics education area. I am interested in assessing whether or not First-Year Programs (including concentrated Orientation and Academic Advising processes) positively impact student persistence and rates of student retention, graduation, and career placement. My related interests in this area include placement testing, the placement of students in their beginning courses (particularly mathematics), and the rate of student attrition and its possible causes.
I am very interested in statistical inquiries involving the techniques and procedures of meta-analysis. If you know of any examples where meta-analysis is used in educational research (preferably higher ed or secondary ed), please send me the citation(s) via e-mail (see below for address).
With regard to K-12 mathematics education, I have been studying the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 for several years now. I am interested in school-based research projects which seek to determine whether or not there exists strong evidence that the procedures, processes, and implications of NCLB are leading to improvements in the teaching, learning, understanding, and retention of mathematics in the K-12 school setting. Naturally, my related interests in this area are high stakes tests, standardized testing, curriculum, and School Improvement in the mathematics education area.
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