Doctoral Students

Doctoral Dissertations

Primary Advisor

Gardner, A. (2020). Listening to college algebra survivors: A natural history ethnograpy. Unpublished Ph.D dissertation. School of Education and Human Development University of Colorado Denver. (Heather Lynn Johnson, Advisor). DOWNLOAD

Azeem, Sumbal. (2018) Relationship of covariational reasoning on college students’ interpretation of function notationUnpublished Ph.D. dissertation. School of Education and Human Development, University of Colorado Denver. (Heather Lynn Johnson, Advisor) DOWNLOAD

Committee Member

Wei, B. (2022). Relating elementary teachers’ MKT with their task selection for teaching multiplicative reasoning: A constructivist viewpoint. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Colorado Denver. (Ron Tzur, Advisor)

Harrington, C. (2021). Progressions in mathematical reasoning: A case study of two teachers’ levels of units coordination. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Colorado Denver. (Ron Tzur, Advisor) DOWNLOAD

Smith, A. (2021). Time is when you wait:” An exploration of children’s conceptions of duration as an attribute of their lived experiences. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Colorado Denver. (Ron Tzur, Advisor) DOWNLOAD

Hodkowski, Nicola M. (2018) Manifestations of elementary mathematics teachers’ shifts toward second order modelsUnpublished Ph.D. dissertation. School of Education and Human Development, University of Colorado Denver. (Ron Tzur, Advisor) DOWNLOAD

Risely, Rachel (2016). Considerations of numbers used in tasks for promoting multiplicative reasoning in students with learning difficulties in mathematicsUnpublished Ph.D. dissertation. School of Education and Human Development, University of Colorado Denver. (Ron Tzur, Advisor) DOWNLOAD

Lartson, Cobina (2013). Effects of design-based science instruction on the science problem-solving skills among different groups of high-school traditional chemistry studentsUnpublished Ph.D. dissertation. School of Education and Human Development, University of Colorado Denver. (Carole Basile, Advisor) DOWNLOAD