Congratulations to three scholars who recently earned a doctorate: Stephen Ciullo, Kathleen Hughes Pfannenstiel, and Amy Broward Weisenburgh-Snyder.
Ciullo, an instructional support specialist for MCPER’s CREATE project, successfully defended his dissertation, The Effects of Graphic Organizers and Explicit Instruction on the Informational Text Learning and Comprehension of Fourth- and Fifth-Grade Students With Learning Disabilities, on September 29 in the Department of Special Education.
Pfannenstiel, supervisor for MCPER’s Validation of Early Mathematics Interventions Project, successfully defended her dissertation, Increasing Multiplication and Division Fluency: Embedding Self-Regulation Strategies Within Systematic, Strategic Instruction, on August 5 in the Learning Disabilities and Behavior Disorders program.
Weisenburgh-Snyder, a former MCPER researcher, successfully defended her dissertation, Developing a Screening Measure for At-Risk and Advanced Beginning Readers to Enhance Response to Intervention Frameworks Using the Rasch Model, on August 10 in the Learning Disabilities and Behavior Disorders program.