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DISSERTATIONS & THESES

Electronically submitted to KSU

    Major Professor
        N. Sanjay Rebello
        Dean Zollman

    Ph. D. Students

       Bijaya Aryal: Transfer of learning with an application to the physics of positron emission tomography
        Jackie Chini: Comparing the scaffolding provided by physical and virtual manipulatives for students' understanding of simple machines
        Edgar Corpuz: Students' modeling of friction at the microscopic level
        Lili Cui: Assessing college students' retention and transfer from calculus to physics
        Spartak Kalita: Transfer of students' learning about x-rays and computer-assisted tomography from physics to medical imaging
        Todd Leif: A case study of the physics enhancement project for two year colleges...
        Fran Mateycik: Facilitating case reuse during problem solving in algebra-based physics
        Mojgan Matloob Haghanikar: Exploring students' patterns of reasoning
        Adrian M. Madsen: Studies of visual attention in physics problem solving
        Dyan McBride: Transfer of learning from traditional optics to wavefront aberromtery
       Christopher M. Nakamura:  The Pathway Active Learning Environment: an interactive web-based tool for physics education
       Dong-Hai Nguyen: Facilitating students' application of the integral and the area under the curve concepts in physics problems

    Masters Students

        Qi Zhang: Integrating experimentation and instrumentation in upper-division physics

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