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Recent ITP Dissertations

March 5, 2008

In recent dissertations from WCER’s Interdisciplinary Training Program in Education Sciences, C.S. Hulleman evaluates whether helping students see the value in their coursework contributes to interest. Specifically, perceptions of utility value predicted topic interest, behavioral inclination, and performance.

James (Dimitri) William Topitzes examines the effects of child maltreatment on adult crime. The main effect results illuminate enduring effects of maltreatment and recommend prevention and early intervention treatment strategies.

Arnold Shober argues that government agencies in general are able to shape the policy preferences of their political principals even in unfavorable political environments.

WCER’s Interdisciplinary Training Program in Education Sciences is helping to train a new generation of researchers who are attuned to the need for concrete knowledge about “what works” in education, and who can bring the most rigorous tools of quantitative social science to bear on the practical problems of education. More information about ITP is available here.