Current Initiatives and Research

Departamental & Faculty:

EDCP	Counseling and Personnel Services
EDCI	Curriculum and Instruction
EDHI	Education Leadership, Higher Education, and International Education
EDPS	Education Policy Studies
EDHD	Human Development and Institute for Child Study
EDMS	Measurement, Statistics, and Evaluation
EDSP	Special Education

Students: (click on the department to read more about the students' research)

These students participated in the Graduate Student Research Conference in May 2009. To see the program for the conference, click here.

EDCI	Cynthia Cannock, EDCI White Teachers in Multiracial Classrooms Leayne Freeman, EDCI IB or On-Level?: Breaking the boundaries of tracking through Creative and Subjective Pedagogy Ausaf Qarni EDCI Teaching Students of Various Religious Backgrounds Islam in the School System Cory Cummings, EDCI Is there a positive correlation between single-sex classrooms and academic progress in public schools? Rui Ma, EDCI Designing a questionnaire of advanced ESL learner's language learning strategies
EDCP	Ho Lam Yiu, EDCP Teacher Ratings of Student Behaviors and the Student-Teacher Relationship: A Focus on Asian American Students Angelo Gomez, EDCP Peer mentoring among Latina/o students in higher education: A philosophical investigation on the intersectional of lived experiences and social identities, and how a counselor makes sense of this experience. Meredith Smith, EDCP Peer Mentoring and Leadership: Differences in Leadership Self-Efficacy Among Students of Differing Peer Mentoring Relationships, Genders, and Academic Class Levels S. Mei-Yen Hui, EDCP “Haikus in the Subway”:  Understanding Student Perceived Outcomes and Meaning Making of an Alternative Spring Break Experience
EDHI	Tiffany Jones, EDHI “The Irony of the Overrepresented Minority” Affirmative Action and Asian Pacific Americans in Higher Education Miki Yoshioka, EDHI The Invisible Minority: An Examination of Access and College Choice of Southeast Asian American Students Kozue Tsunoda, EDHI Asian American Giving to U.S. Higher Education: Exploring Development Officer's Perspectives Sahar Sattarzadeh, EDHI Education for Development: The Case of the African Peer Review Mechanism Carol Corneilse, EDHI Living Feminism in the Academy: South African women tell their stories Carol Radomski, EDHI Youth Exchange and Peacebuilding Post 9/11: Experiences of Muslim high school students in the U.S. D. Brent Edwards Jr., EDHI Religion, Spirituality and Peace Education: What We Can Learn from Twelve Step Programs Cynthia Eichele, EDHI: Poster presentation: The efficacy of international study: do students apply diverse thinking to their life and work as a result?
EDPS	Ranetta Hardin, University of Maryland  Narrating an Interstitial Space: How African-American Youth Construct Their Lives in an Inner-City Boarding School Tomoko Tokunaga, University of Maryland “I’m not Going to Be in Japan Forever”: Navigating the Meaning of “Home” of Filipina Immigrant Youth in Japan
Other	Todd Stillman, MCERT Teaching Historical Thinking to Non-Native Speakers of English Amir Farmanes, UMCP School of Public Policy Breaking a vicious cycle through technological diffusion and knowledge-base development: A study into necessary educational transformations in the Middle East and North Africa Carla Onate: Poster Presentation: Introducing curriculum that presents positive images of Hispanic figures to teach grammar in context Nicole Santiago: Poster Presentation: From Comics to Quixote: Building a bridge to Understanding Spanish Literature In Yeong Ko: Poster Presentation: Bilingual Reading of Compound Words Tiffany Jones: Poster Presentation: No Longer the “Other Factor”: The Unique Experience of Multiracial Students Sociolinguistic Education: The incorporation on Non-Standard Spanish Dialects as a Means of Improving Native and Heritage Language Student Engagement and Academic Performance