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Author:

Li, Hongli

Title:

EVALUATING LANGUAGE GROUP DIFFERENCES IN THE SUBSKILLS OF READING USING A COGNITIVE DIAGNOSTIC MODELING AND DIFFERENTIAL SKILL FUNCTIONING APPROACH

Graduate Program:

Educational Psychology

Keywords:

Fusion model
cognitive diagnostic modeling
differential skill functioning
reading subskills
the MELAB

File:

Download Dissertation-Final-0328.pdf

Committee Members:

Hoi Kin Suen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hoi Kin Suen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Pui Wa Lei, Committee Member
Bonnie J Meyer, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Committee Member
Yong Won Lee, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Mengyi

Title:

Effects of Text Genre and Structure on 4th- and 5th-grade Students’ High-level Comprehension in Small-group Discussions

Graduate Program:

Educational Psychology

Keywords:

reading comprehension
text-based discussion
text genre
text structure
Quality Talk

File:

Download Thesis_Mengyi_Li.pdf

Committee Members:

Bonnie J Meyer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Pricilla Karen Murphy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Li, Xinyue

Title:

DEALING WITH TESTLET-STRUCTURED DATA: EFFECT OF SAMPLE SIZE ON IRT MODEL SELECTION

Graduate Program:

Educational Psychology

Keywords:

item response theory
unidimensional model
bifactor model
model selection
testlet data

File:

Download xinyue_thesis_0405.pdf

Committee Members:

Pui-Wa Lei, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Li, Mengyi

Title:

EXAMINING THE EFFECTS OF TEXT GENRE, PRIOR KNOWLEDGE, AND PERCEIVED INTERESTINGNESS ON STUDENTS’ ACQUISITION OF HIGH-LEVEL COMPREHENSION

Graduate Program:

Educational Psychology

Keywords:

text-based discussion
high-level comprehension
text feature
prior knowledge
perceived interestingness

File:

Download Mengyi_Li_Dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

P. Karen Murphy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peggy Van Meter, Committee Member
Puiwa Lei, Committee Member
Jeffrey A. Greene, Committee Member
Mosuk Chow, Outside Member
P. Karen Murphy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair