Browsing GSE Theses and Dissertations by Keyword "Education, Educational Psychology"
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Children’s Internalizing Symptoms in Anticipation of the Transition to Middle School: Causal Inferences in the Context of a Natural Experiment
(2014-10-22)The middle-school transition has long been linked with poor social-emotional and academic outcomes for children. However to date, research on the middle-school transition has been predominantly observational, not experimental, ... -
Dyslexia as Disability
(2015-05-18)These three qualitative studies describe and analyze how and when young dyslexic people manage disability labels in talk. The theoretical framework informing this study includes post-structuralist approaches to analyzing ... -
Effects of Socio-Cognitive Conflicts on Group Cognition and Group Performance
(2014-10-22)Socio-cognitive conflict is a mechanism that drives cognitive development/learning in collaborative learning. Such conflicts occur when individuals have different perspectives on the same problem. To adequately solve ... -
Exploring Social-Emotional Cognition and Psychophysiologic Synchrony During Teaching Interactions
(2016-05-13)Conceptions of learning have evolved from behaviorist and mechanistic models to models that are dynamic, complex, and process-oriented. Educators’ and researchers’ understanding of teaching can benefit from a similar ... -
How People Learn to Think Globally: Mapping and Measuring the Development of Internormative Cognition
(2018-05-08)Managing the global organization of human activity requires the cognitive capacity to generate internormative frameworks of judgment—frameworks that transcend the boundaries between normative communities. This dissertation ... -
Implicit Learning: Development, Individual Differences, and Educational Implications
(2015-03-10)This dissertation attempts to link models from cognitive neuroscience with problems and models from education research as well as to advance our understanding of implicit learning. In addition to a review of the current ... -
Making Meaning of Risk: Exploring Resilient Adolescents’ Interpretations of the Impact of Negative Life Experiences
(2015-05-15)Our understanding of the relationship between risk factors and resilience has been framed primarily by probability. Resilience has been conceptualized as “beating the odds”: doing better than our statistical predictions ... -
More Than Just Symbols: Mental and Neural Representations Related to Symbolic Number Processing in Mathematics
(2016-05-17)The ability for students to understand numbers and other mathematical symbols is a crucial part of success in mathematics. Accordingly, it is important for researchers to understand the nature of symbolic number processing ... -
Neural Precursors of Language in Infants at High Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder
(2015-09-28)Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a developmental disorder characterized by difficulties in social interaction and communication. Abnormal language development is a pervasive symptom of this disorder, though research has ... -
Tipping the Scales: Social Justice and Educational Measurement
(2014-10-22)In this work I address foundational concerns at the interface of educational measurement and social justice. Following John Rawls’s philosophical methods, I build and justify an ethical framework for guiding practices ...