Expert Areas: The uses of music as an instructional tool in the general elementary classroom (American Orff-Schulwerk Association Research Grant, 2019)
Expert Areas: Research interests span across teacher preparation courses and P-12 instruction for children who are deaf or hard of hearing and include a focus on metacognitive teaching and learning strategies, working memory, language, and literacy
Expert Areas: Use and selection of children’s literature in the classroom, as well as students’ responses to different formats of literature; ole of PST’s and teacher education in social movements; qualitative method, specifically content analysis, case study methods, and narrative inquiry.
Expert Areas: Strategies for teaching digital literacy skills to young adults with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (IDD); promoting social media safety for young adults with IDD; technology use of young adults with IDD; technology support for parents and teachers of young adults with IDD; quantitative, single-subject, and survey research methods.
Expert Areas: Examining the progression of algebraic thinking in students, math-specific literacy strategies and professional learning in communities of practice; qualitative methodologies.
Expert Areas: Social studies education; assessments and literacy instruction for culturally and linguistically diverse students; teacher education; teacher retention; teacher relationships.
Expert Areas: K-12 online learning; digital equity; assistive and instructional technology; mathematics interventions for students with learning disabilities
Expert Areas: Using Rasch Analysis (and Winsteps software) psychometric model for analyzing categorical (bivariate) data in science education. Science inquiry and engineering for children, children and teen’s conceptualization of the particle nature of matter, and energy education in science education.
Expert Areas: Studies in librarianship, cultural studies, film studies, leadership studies, Appalachian studies, qualitative and quantitative methodologies.
Expert Areas: Graduate writing and mentoring, educational discourses in schools and media, second language acquisition, ESL students' high school science writing, transformative learning in undergraduate ESL endorsement courses, corpus pedagogy, disciplinary literacy, culturally and linguistically responsive pedagogies.
Expert Areas: Automated information organization and classification; study of quantitative aspects of information (informetrics); analysis of research productivity and collaboration
Expert Areas: Reading and writing in elementary classrooms; children’s literature; language learning; cultural and linguistic responsive teaching; qualitative literacy scholarship, including descriptive and ethnographic case studies, discourse analysis, content analysis, and critical literacy.
