Advising
Though he served as an advisor to Ph.D., M.A., and M.Ed. graduate students when he was a faculty member, Dr. Andersen does not serve as a graduate advisor in his current position. However, he does serve as a committee member on Ph.D. candidacy examination and dissertation committees. Though most of these committees have been in the School of Teaching and Learning's Integrated Teaching and Learning program, he has also served on committees in other programs in the College of Education and Human Ecology.
As a faculty member, he advised three doctoral students:
- Tracy Huziak-Clark (Ph.D. in education, 2003). Verbal and social interaction patterns among elementary students during self-guided "I Wonder" projects. Currently at Bowling Green State University (Ohio, USA).
- Nejla Yürük (Ph.D. in education, 2005). An analysis of the nature of students' metaconceptual processes and the effectiveness of metaconceptual teaching practices on students' conceptual understanding of force and motion. Currently at Gazi University (Ankara, Turkey).
- Ayse Oguz (Ph.D. in education, 2005). Surveying American and Turkish middle school students' existing knowledge of earthquakes by using a systemic network. Currently at Mugla University (Mugla, Turkey).
He has served as a member of Ph.D. candidacy examination and dissertation committees:
- Mary Lightbody (Ph.D., 2004)
- Daniel Brilhart (candidate, 2005)
- William Jones (candidate, 2005)
- Erin Sanchez (Ph.D., 2005)
- Mustafa Yasar (Ph.D., 2006)
- Mary Ann Wojton (candidate, 2006)
- Lori Marshall (candidate, 2006)
For students who wish to have him serve on a Ph.D. candidacy examination or dissertation committee, a letter of request needs to be sent from your unit's Graduate Studies Committee to Associate Dean Elliot Slotnick, 250 University Hall. Note that Dr. Andersen would be in addition to the required four (for candidacy examinations) or three (for dissertation) graduate faculty members on the committee.
Some doctoral programs have rules concerning the number of committee members from within the program and the number outside the program. In the School of Teaching and Learning, the ITL programs does not have a "distribution requirement" for masters and Ph.D. committees, but the Science Education Ph.D. program does:
Ph.D. Candidacy committees: 2 members in science education, 1 outside science education, 1 outside the College of Education
Ph.D. Dissertation committees: 2 in science education, 1 outside science education
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