Doctor of philosophy (Ph.D.)

Degree requirements

Students must complete required credits in EPsy core areas, 9 (or 12) credits of EPsy electives, 12 credits in a supporting program or minor, 24 thesis credits, and additional courses recommended by the adviser in the student's area of emphasis in psychological foundations. You will be responsible for the core requirements in effect at the time of your admission.

Minor requirements for students majoring in other fields

A doctoral minor requires at least 15 credits of graduate-level courses in EPsy: 9 credits in psychological foundations and 6 in applied areas, of which at least 9 credits must be 8xxx level; the minor is not covered in the preliminary exams.

Doctoral degree requirements for graduation
The degree program form can be downloaded from this page Graduate School page.

Admissions information

Ph.D. dissertation samples

The Effect of Student Interaction on Group Performance in Asynchronous Learning Environments
by Nora M. Braun, 2008

Using Citation Analysis Methods to Assess the Influence of STEM Education Evaluation
by Lija Ozols Greenseid, 2008

Facilitation of Bayesian Decision Making
by Yasmine Lauren Konheim Kalkstein, 2008

A Latent Growth Curve Analysis of the Impact of School Mobility on the Reading Scores of Poor and Non-Poor Children in the U.S.
by Elaine Yee Ling Lee, 2008

"There is Always a Path to Success for Every Student:" Educator Thinking Patterns and Inclusion at Parkview Primary Center
by Jennet C. Silverman, 2008

Understanding Teacher-Student Relationships in Advisory Programs
by Mark J. Van Ryzin, 2008

Cognitive Transfer and Conservation in Chess Playing
by Michael Atherton, 2007

Event-Indexing Across Development
by Catherine Marie Bohn, 2007

Academic Growth in Kindergarten: The Effects of Child-Level and School-Level Factors on Learning Outcomes
by Tina Patane Kruse, 2007

Development and Validation of a Research-based Assessment: Reasoning about P-values and Statistical Significance
by Sharon J. Lane-Getaz, 2007

Identifying Self-Regulatory Factors that Influence the Academic Achievement Motivation of Underprepared College Students
by Seth Randall Langley, 2007

The Moral Judgment of Gifted Adolescents
by Ashley Elizabeth Lewis, 2007

Monte Carlo Evidence Regarding the Effects of Violating Assumed Conditions of Two-Level Hierarchical Models for Cross-Sectional Data
by Yukiko Maeda, 2007

Unit of Word Recognition as an Indicator of Reading Fluency: Use of a Lexical Decision Task
by Theresa Josephine Palumbo, 2007

The Effect of Social Identity, Social Power, Professor Gender and Race on Informal Student-Faculty Interactions.
by Jamie J. Peterson, 2007

Impact of Post-Discharge Habit Training of Self Care Skills on Independence, Caregiver Burden, and Development of Automaticity for Survivors of Recent Stroke
by Mary Vining Radomski, 2007

Teaching Students to Be Peacemakers: Implementing a Conflict Resolution and Peer Mediation Training in a Minneapolis K-6 Charter School
by Callie E. Walker, 2007

The Role of Connectiveness in the Comprehension of Spontaneous Spoken Discourse
by Jazmin Yomha Cevasco, 2007

Interrelationships and Gender Differences among Components of Morality for Dental Students
by Di You, 2007

An Exploratory Study of Predictive Validity and Diagnostic Utility of Cognitive Profile Patterns on the Woodcock-Johnson Psychoeducational Battery―Revised (WJ-R) Clinical Database
by Chikeung Chan, 2006

Race, Equity, and the Pattern of Opportunity
by Steven Andrew Culpepper, 2006

An Evaluation of a School-Based Program for Pregnant and Parenting Adolescents
by Juliet Melissa Fenyk, 2006

Confidence in Knowledge Past: An Empirical Basis for a Differential Decay Theory of Very Long-Term Memory Monitoring
by Jeffrey Grann, 2006

An Investigation of the Relationship Among Attitudes Toward Cooperation, Math Anxiety, and Mathematics Performance in Vocational Education Courses with an Enhanced Mathematics Curriculum
by Susan Kay Jensen, 2006

Constructive Controversy: A Long Overlooked Path to Moral Development
by Michelle Tichy-Reese, 2006

Effects of Peacekeeping and Peacemaking on Preschoolers' Competitive Conflict and Aggression
by Cary James Roseth, 2006

A Longitudinal Investigation of the Development of College Students' Reasoning About Bivariate Data During an Introductory Statistics Course
by Andrew Zieffler, 2006

Social Interdependence and Social Dominance: Determinants of Children's Bullying, Victimization, and Prosocial Behaviors
by Jiyoung Choi, 2005

Nonlinear Mixed Effects Mixture Model: A Model for Clustering Nonlinear Longitudinal Profiles
by Jeffrey Harring, 2005

Cognitive Effects of Chess Instruction on Students at Risk for Academic Failure
by Saahoon Hong, 2005

A Validation Study of the Professional Role Orientation Inventory (PROI)
by Yunjung Kang, 2005

Processing of Scientific Texts: Effects of Prior Knowledge and Text Structure
by Panayiota Kendeou, 2005

Effects of Service-Learning on College Student Moral Reasoning.
by James Lies, 2005

The Iterative Evaluation Model for Improving Online Educational Resources
by Ann Ooms, 2005

Effects of Missing Data Methods on Convergence Rates, Parameter Estimates, and Model Fits in Latent Growth Curve Modeling
by Tacksoo Shin, 2005

Cognitive and Neural Representation and Processing for Tone and Non-Tone Languages
by Yung-Chi Sung, 2005

Doctoral degrees awarded since 1981

July 2008