May 2, 2008
Six Win Graduate Student Research Conference Prizes
Writer: Michael Childs, 706/542-5889, mdchilds@uga.edu
Contact: Paula Schwanenflugel, 706/542-4273, pschawan@uga.edu
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Six students from four different departments won prizes in the annual College of Education's Graduate Student Research Conference held on Reading Day, April 29.
In the qualitative division, here are the winners, with their department, and poster title:
1st Place: Amy Alexandra Wilson, Language and Literacy Education.
Poster Title: Investing Professional Development in Content-Area Literacy Instruction: A Call to Consider Teachers’ Discipline-Specific Tools.
2nd Place: Hye-Jeong Choi, Educational Psychology and Instructional Technology.
Poster Title: Why Teachers Leave Classrooms.
3rd Place: Deb Teitelbaum, Lifelong Education, Administration, & Policy.
Poster Title: You Gotta Shake Your Own Bushes: Veteran Teachers’ Efforts to Remain Motivated.
Winners in the quantative division, were:
1st Place: Katharine Raczynski, Kelly Foster, both of Educational Psychology and Instructional Technology, and Myungweon Choi, Lifelong Education, Administration, and Policy.
Poster Title: Parent and Peer Influences on Adolescent Propensity for Delinquency.
2nd Place: Cigdem Alagoz, Educational Psychology and Instructional Technology.
Poster Title: Protective Power of the Georgia High School Graduation Predictor Test.
3rd Place: Youn-Jeng Choi, Educational Psychology and Instructional Technology.
Poster Title: A Mixture Rasch Model Analysis of Differential Item Functioning Using TIMSS Data.
Judges for the conference included COE faculty members Debbie Bandalos, Alan Cohen, Hilary Conklin, Tom Hebert, Janette Hill and Steve Olejnik.
Program Committee members included Janette Hill, Seock-ho Kim, Nancy Knapp, Stacey Neuharth-Pritchett and Paula Schwanenflugel.
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