Selected Projects
Informational Literacy
- Informational Comprehension Instruction in the Primary Grades
- Informational Comprehension Assessment in the Primary Grades: The Concepts of Comprehension Assessment (COCA)
- Informational Comprehension Assessment in the Primary Grades: The Informational Strategic Cloze Assessment (ISCA)
- Digital Technology, Critical Research, and Literacy Development in Urban Schools
- Measuring Writing Achievement: How States Assess Writing
- Project ACCEL: ACCelerating Expository Literacy to Improve Outcomes
- Exploring Transfer from Reading to Writing in Struggling Readers
- Video-Based Response and Revision project
Narrative Literacy
- Writing for Healing with Teen-aged Orphans of Rwandan Genocide
- Literature Circles in Elementary Classrooms: An Exploratory Study of Children’s Enjoyment, Learning, and Executive Functioning Abilities
Literacy and Technology
- New Modes of Reading Comprehension on the Web
- Pathways to Bilingualism: E-Learning and the Teaching of Modern Foreign Languages
- The Virtual History Museum: Technology Tools and Environments to Support the Historical Understanding of Students with Disabilities
- Visualizing Composition: Understanding Composing Processes as a Coordination of Technological and Cultural Activities
Teacher Professional Development
- The Intern Video ARCHIVE Project: Analyzing and Reflecting on Classroom Literacy and Science Discussions: How does Investigation of Video Cases Enhance Interns’ Expertise?
- Preservice Teachers: Teaching Adolescents Strategies for Reading and Writing with Science and Mathematics Texts
- Engaging Students in Science: A Study of Effective Middle School Science Teaching
- Learning to Leave No Child Behind: Peer-Initiated Professional Development and the Literacy Education of English Language Learners
- Examining the value-added to reading intervention outcomes from a systematic problem analysis
Unclassified Projects
- Assessment of Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy
- Benchmark School Study
- Concepts of Comprehension Assessment (COCA) in action
- Cultural Practices of Literacy Study
- Cultural Reciprocity: A Path for Bridging the Gap Between Home and School
- Examining high school and college student experiences with accommodations among students with learning disabilities
- Growing Writers: Teaching Genre to Elementary Students of All Abilities
- The Influence of Oral Narrative in Teaching Writing
- Linking Domain and Situated Motivation for Writing with Writing Performance and Experience
- Mentoring Beginning Teachers in Teaching Literacy in Urban Elementary Schools
- MSU/LEARN (Michigan State University/Urban Literacy Education Action Research Network)
- National Center for the Study of Electronic Text
- The Promoting Emergent Literacy in Licensed Care (PELLC) Project
- School psychologists with accommodation and remediation knowledge to promote literacy everywhere (Project SPARKLE)
- Six Summers: Critical Research and Urban Youth
- A Study of Elementary and Middle School Teachers Who Communicate Effectively With Parents
- Toward a Less Simple View of Reading
- Understanding the Functions of Oral Narrative Discourse in Literature Discussions
- The Urban Literacies Project
- Using an Aesthetic Reading/Writing Workshop to Prepare Teacher Poet Fellows
