Barbara Bush Fellowship
Past Recipients
2010-2011
Alicia Friday
Doctoral student in human resource development, Department of Educational Administration & Human Resource Development.
Research topic: integration of technology for instruction in Texas family literacy programs.
Quinita Ogletree
Doctoral student specializing in urban education, Department of Teaching, Learning & Culture.
Research topic: the relationship between the services offered by family literacy programs and the verbal and nonverbal intelligence and thinking skills of young children.
Juana Vaquero
Doctoral student in school psychology, Department of Educational Psychology.
Research topic: examined the effects of a 15-week, parent-delivered shared book reading intervention on the literacy and language skills of low-income, preschool English language learners participating in Head Start.
Dr. Mary Alfred welcomes 2010-2011 Barbara Bush Fellows to TCALL
L-R: Dr. Mary Alfred,
Juana Vaquero, Alicia Friday, and Quinita Ogletree.
2009-2010
Rose Anna Santos
Doctoral student in higher education administration, Department of Educational Administration & Human Resource Development.
Research topic: literacy development, particularly how fathers facilitate literacy development within their families; how fathers in family literacy programs, specifically Hispanic fathers, view parenting and literacy role-modeling to their children.
Priya Darshini Kurup
Doctoral student in human resource development, Department of Educational Administration & Human Resource Development.
Research topic: the effect of work-life balance on parental participation and retention in family literacy programs.
Tiffany Lipsett
Doctoral student in curriculum and culture with an emphasis on visual literacy, Department of Teaching, Learning & Culture.
Research topic: the interaction between parents and children, and the social and cultural context in which literacy skills are learned in the home.
Jeeyoung Shin
Doctoral student in English as a Second Language, Department of Teaching, Learning & Culture.
Research topic: conducted an intervention study with language-minority families using a conceptual framework to identify key issues to understand their literacy patterns and experiences.
L-R: Rose Anna Santos, Priya Darshini Kurup, Tiffany Lipsett & Jeeyoung Shin
2008-2009
Marla Rea
Doctoral student in bilingual education, Department of Educational Psychology.
Research topic: how immigrant families’ access to continuing education opportunities affects their children’s success in school.
Renata Russo
Doctoral student in adult education, Department of Educational Administration & Human Resource Development.
Research topic: the impact of the four components of a family literacy program on parents’ literacy development in obtaining their GED.
Megan Terry
Doctoral student in school psychology, Department of Educational Psychology.
Research topic: retested and analyzed the measures she created as a 2007-2008 Fellow, for a Home Literacy Environment Test that was administered to Head Start parents in Brazos County.
Megan Terry, Renata Russo, and Marla Rea
2007-2008
Rebekah Haynes
Doctoral student in school psychology, Department of Educational Psychology.
Research topic: literacy found in the home environment, such as shared book reading, as well as factors contributing to the parent-child relationship.
Petra Robinson
Doctoral student in adult education, Department of Educational Administration & Human Resource Development.
Research topic: the impact family literacy programs have on various elements of the participants' family life, including economic impact, community involvement, parental engagement, personal development and self-esteem, safety and health environment and accountability, and literacy levels in family units.
Megan Terry
Doctoral student in school psychology, Department of Educational Psychology.
Research topic: planned to create measures for a Home Literacy Environment Test so that it can be used by a variety of researchers and professionals to improve literacy in the home .
Becki Haynes, and Megan Terry. Missing from the picture is Petra Robinson.
