Past Recipients of the Paul R. Pintrich Dissertation Awards
The following individuals have been noted for outstanding dissertations in the field of Educational Psychology.
2022 Dissertation Award Winner
Yeo-eun Kim: “Study, Socialize, and Play: Understanding Students’ Multiple Goal Pursuit and Multiple-Goals-Directed Self-Regulation.”
2021 Dissertation Award Winner
Nikki Glover Lobczowski: “Building From the Inside Out: The Formation and Regulation of Emotions in Collaborative Learning.”
2020 Dissertation Award Winner
Kevin Wong: “The Promise of Educational Media for Dual Language Learners’ L1 and L2 Vocabulary Development.”
2019 Dissertation Award Winner
Jenna Finch: “Executive Functions in Elementary School: Contextual Influences and Links to Adaptive Functioning.”
2018 Dissertation Award Winner
Amanda Baker: “Epistemic Profiles, Dissonance Negotiation, and Perspective Transformation in Postsecondary Service-Learning.”
2017 Dissertation Award Winner
Alison Koenka: “Grade Expectations: An Investigation of Performance Feedback, Classroom Goal Structures, and the Motivational Consequences of Their Dynamic Interplay.”
2016 Dissertation Award Winner
Gregory Trevors: “Controversial Science Knowledge: A Multi-study Examination of How Epistemic Cognition and Emotions Relate to the Ways We Learn Science.”
2015 Dissertation Award Winner
Teomara Rutherford: “Calibration of confidence judgments in elementary mathematics: Measurement, development, and improvement”
2014 Dissertation Award Winner
Kate Snyder: “Developmental Pathways in Underachievement”
2013 Dissertation Award Winner
Kate Niehaus: “School Support, Parental Involvement, and Academic and Social-Emotional Outcomes for English Language Learners.”
2012 Dissertation Award Winner
Maggie Renken: “Computer Simulations and Conceptual Change: What is the Role of Simulated Experiments in the Context of Prior Belief Bias and Ambiguous Data?”
2011 Dissertation Award Winner
Jamaal Matthews: “Toward a Holistic Understanding of Identification with Academics in Ethnic-Minority Boys at Risk for Academic Failure”
2010 Dissertation Award Winner
Andrew Butler: “Using Repeated Testing and Variable Encoding to Promote Transfer of Learning”
2009 Dissertation Award Winner
Chris Hulleman: “The Role of Utility Value in the Development of Interest and Achievement”
2008 Dissertation Award Winner
Lynette S. Arnold: “Enhancing Student Academic Regulatory Processes: A Study of Metacognitive Knowledge Monitoring, Strategic Enhancement and Achievement.
2007 Dissertation Award Winner
Brian Beitzel: “Designing Contrasting Video Case Activities to Facilitate Learning of Complex Subject Matter.”
2006 Dissertation Award Winner
David Fortus: “Design-Based Science and the Transfer of Science Knowledge and Real-world Problem-Solving Skills.”
2005 Dissertation Award Winners
Michele Gregoire Gill: “Effects of Augmented Activation, Refutational Text, Efficacy Beliefs, Epistemological Beliefs, and Systematic Processing on Conceptual Change.”
Robert Klassen: “A cross-cultural investigation of the efficacy beliefs of South Asian immigrant and Anglo non-immigrant early adolescents”
2004 Dissertation Award Winner
Elizabeth A. Linnenbrink: “The Dilemma of Performance Goals: Promoting Students’ Motivation and Learning in Varying Goal Oriented Classrooms.”