Competency based adult education and theological education are synthesized to identify a
core of minimal competencies needed by beginning pastors of congregations of the Church …

Science of reading is a term that has been used variously, but its use within research, policy,
and the press has tended to share one important commonality: an intensive focus on …

… Aukerman, 2012). But while our study indicated that the students were hearing and engaging
in close reading, driven by the divergence of their interpretations, our study also indicated …

This conceptual essay critiques reading comprehension pedagogies that are part of the
current educational landscape. I argue that comprehension pedagogy generally reflects one of …

The Standard Model of particle physics attempts to describe the most fundamental aspects
of our world. It has generated a vast number of successful predictions and offers immense …

Professional development has often been about assuring teacher mastery of “best practices.”
But researchers ascribe great importance to developing creative practitioners who can …

In this study, the authors examine how emergent bilingual second graders collaboratively
constructed textual understandings, a phenomenon they call intercomprehending, by building …

We consider the important issue of including personal value preferences in decision support
systems (DSS). Various personal differences have been shown to affect the acceptance, use…

This study offers an alternative to traditional notions of scaffolding for reading comprehension
by tracing the evolution of a fifth-grade small group literature conversation in which the …

… literacy as personal response, is not on transmission of a particular idea or set of analytic
tools, but rather on opportunities for students to offer their own responses—a potentially rich …