THE PROPONENTS' PROFESSIONAL BIOGRAPHIES

DAVID PEARSON

University of California, Berkeley/UCB. Graduate School of Education

Skills and Expertise

Teaching and Learning, Professional Development, Curriculum Development,
Teacher Training, Pedagogy, Assessment, Pedagogics, Teaching Methodology,
Teacher Education, Teaching Methods, Psycholinguistics

Works/Projects
 First Grade Second Language: Uniting Science Knowledge and Literacy
Development for English Learners
 Becoming a Nation of Readers: 30-Year Retrospective
 On Becoming a Thoughtful Reader: Learning to Read like a Writer
 The Roots of Reading Comprehension Instruction Reprint
 Looking Beyond What you See: Critical Inquiry and Video Reflection through
Positioning Analysis and Story
 An Analysis of the Test Complexity of Leveled Passages in Four Popular
Classrooms Reading Assessments
 8 Making Room to Read: The Evolution of a Secondary School Library
 Making Room to Read
 From what is Reading? To what is Literacy?
 The Roots of reading comprehension instruction
 The Integration of Common Core and Response to Intervention: Supporting
Vulnerable Readers in a Time of Sophisticated Standards
 Handbooks of Reading research
 DAVID E. RUMELHART

American Author/Psychologist

He obtained his undergraduate education at the University of

South Dakota, he got a B.A. in Math and Psychology in 1963. At
Stanford University he received a Ph. D. in Mathematical
Psychology in 1967.

Works/Known for
 He explored the possibility of formulating a formal
grammar to capture the structure of stories due to is
admiration on Formal Linguistic Approaches
 Connectionism
 Artificial Neural network Modelling
 Deep Learning
 Applications of backpropagation
 (Thesis) The Effects of Interpresentation Intervals on
Performance in a Continuous Paired-Associate
 DR. RICHARD C. ANDERSON

American Educational Psychologist/Director of the Center for

the Study of Reading/Professor Emeritus at the University of
Illinois at Urbana Champaign/Past President of the American
Educational Research Association/Professor at Beijing Normal
University and National Taiwan University/President of China
Children's Book

Education: Harvard University

Top Journals
 Journal of Educational Psychology (23)
 American Educational Research Journal (9)
 Reading Research Quarterly (8)
 Reading and Writing (5)
 Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior (4)
 KEITH E. STANOVICH
 Canadian Author
 Emeritus Professor of Applied Psychology and Human Development, University of
Toronto
 Former Canada Research Chair of Applied Cognitive Science

 His Classic Article on the MATTHEW EFFECT in Education has been cited over
1000 times in the scientific literature.
 He is the author of over 175 scientific articles, several of which have become
Current Contents Citation Classics.

Research Areas
 Psychology of Reasoning
 Psychology of Reading
His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's
scientific consensus about what reading is.

Works/Books
 Progress in Understanding Reading
 What Intelligence Tests Miss
 Rationality and Reflective Mind
 The Robot's Rebellion
 How to Think Straight About Psychology
 ROBERT TIERNEY
University of Central Florida/UCF
School of Social Work

Skill/Expertise
Learning

Works/Contributions
 How will Literacy be assessed in the Next Millennium?
 Portfolios: Assumptions, Tensions and Possibilities
 Literacy assessment reform: Shifting beliefs, principled possibilities and Emerging practices
 The engagement of Thinking Processes: A two Year Study of Selected Apple Classroom of
Tomorrow Students
 Traversing the Topical Landscape: Reading and Writing as Ways of Knowing
 The effects of Reading and Writing upon Thinking Critically
 Commentary: Cohesion: Problems with Talking about Text
 On becoming a Thoughtful Reader: Learning to read like a Writer
 Toward a Composing Model of Reading
 Learning from Text
 Cohesion: problems with talking about text: a Brief Commentary
 Developing Reader's Knowledge through Analogy
 Reading and Writing as ways of Knowing and Learning
 The Cohesion Concept's Relationship to the Coherence of Text

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GROVER C. MATHEWSON

Notable Work
 Model of Attitude Influence upon Reading and
Learning to read.