Literacies
Research Area
What sorts of linguistic, numeric, and cultural skills do people possess, acquire, and employ?
Literacies
Presentations
Song, Y., Xing, W., Tian, X., & Li, C. (2023). Are we on the same page? modeling linguistic synchrony and math literacy in mathematical discussions. In Proceedings of 2023 International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge (LAK 2023), March 13-17, Arlington, Texas, USA. DOI: doi.acm.org?doi=3576050.3576082
Weisberg, L., Wang, X., Wusylko, C., & Kohnen, A. M. (2023, April). Critical Online Information Evaluation (COIE): A comprehensive model for information literacy curriculum and assessment design. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting, Chicago, IL.
Ritzhaupt, A.D., Wang, X., Sommer, M., Wusylko, C., Kohnen, A.M., Dawson, K. (2023, April). The Role of Skepticism in Information Literacy Ecosystems: An Exploratory Factor Analysis. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting, Chicago, IL.
Dawson, K., Sommer, M., Wusylko, C., Wang, X., Ritzhaupt, A.D., Kohnen, A.M. (2023, April). Middle School Incidental Information Literacy (MiSIIL): Assessing Middle School Students’ Skills When Evaluating Incidental Information. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting, Chicago, IL.
Weisberg, L., Wang, X., Wusylko, C., Kohnen, A.M. (2023, April). Critical Online Information Evaluation: A Comprehensive Model for Information Literacy Curriculum and Assessment Design. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting, Chicago, IL.
Kohnen, A., Wusylko, C., Wang, X., Sommer, M., Dawson, K.M., Ritzhaupt, A.D., Lemstrom, E. (2023, April) Exploring Predictors of Middle School Students’ Incidental Information Literacy (Incidental-IL); A Mixed-Method Study. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting, Chicago, IL.
Dawayangzong, F. (2022, March). Chinese ITA Teaching Experiences at a US College Campus. Paper presented at the TESOL International Convention & English Language Expo, Pittsburgh, PA.
Dawayangzong, F. (2022, March). Translanguaging as Empowerment of Teaching English Writing in China. Paper presented at the TESOL International Convention & English Language Expo, Pittsburgh, PA.
Dawayangzong, F. (2022, November). What Successful International Teaching Assistant Do: Three Chinese ITA’ Teaching Experience at a US College Campus. Paper presented at the NCTE Annual Convention, Anaheim, CA.
Dawson, D., Sommer, M., Wusylko, C., Ritzhaupt, A., Kohnen, A. (2022, November) Design & Development of a Tool to Assess Middle School Students’ Skills When Evaluating Incidental Information. Paper presented at the Florida Educational Research Association, Daytona Beach, FL.
Kellogg, G. (2022, December). “Can’t we just enjoy the book?”: Disciplinary literacy and teachers of literature. Paper presented at the American Reading Forum Conference, St. Petersburg Beach, FL.
Kellogg, G. (2022, April). Disciplinary literacy and the teaching of literature. Roundtable session presented at UF College of Education Research Symposium, Gainesville, FL.
Wusylko, C., Sommer, M., Wang, X., Dawson, K., Kohnen, A., Ritzhaupt, A. (2022, October) Investigating the Relationship Between Adolescent Metacognitive Awareness and Information Literacy in Non-Academic Contexts. Paper presented at the Association for Educational Communication and Technology Convention, Las Vegas, NV.
Wusylko, C., Kohnen, A., & Sommer, M. (2022, July). Social Media Literacy from a Sociocultural Perspective. Paper presented at the National Association for Media Literacy Education Conference, Virtual.
Antonyan, K., Shidfar, P., Koh, D.H., Antonenko, P. (2022, March). The Role of Individual Differences in Working Memory Capacity When Comprehending Visualizations With Relative Data and Seductive Details. Paper presented at the National Association for Research in Science Teaching Annual Meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia.
Antonyan, K., Antonenko, P. (2022, March). The Science of Data Visualization Comprehension: Analysis of Seminal Theoretical Frameworks. Paper presented at the National Association for Research in Science Teaching Annual Meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia.
Antonyan, K., Shidfar, P., Koh, D.H., Antonenko, P. (2022, April). The Role of Relational Data Representations, Seductive Details, and Topic Beliefs in Data Visualization Comprehension [Poster session]. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting, San Diego, CA.
Antonyan, K., Shidfar, P., Koh, D.H., Antonenko, P. (2022, May). Cognitive Differences in Comprehending Data Visualizations with Seductive Details. Paper presented at the Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, Virtual.
Antonyan, K., Antonenko, P. (2021). Toward Improved Understanding of Data Visualization Literacy: Insights on Perception of Data Visualizations. Paper presented at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Online.
Dawayangzong, F. (April, 2021). Transformative Narratives: The Literacy Construction and Practices of First-year International Teaching Assistants of English Writing. Paper presented at the Conference on College Composition & Communication, virtual.
Kohnen, A., Wusylko, C., Sommer, M. (2021, December) Critical Information Literacy Instruction for Community College Students. Paper presented at the American Reading Forum Conference, Virtua.
Antonyan, K., Antonenko, P. (2020, November). Trends and Issues in Research on Data Visualization Literacy: A Systematic Review. Paper presented at the Association for Educational Communication and Technology, Online.
Fang, Z., Gresser, V & Cao, P. (Dec, 2021). Genre and register features of sixth-grade students’ informational writing. Paper accepted by the Literacy Research Association’s 71st Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA.
Fang, Z., Cao, P & Gresser, V. (April, 2021). A longitudinal study of school children’s discursive competence in informational writing. Paper accepted by the American Educational Research Association Annual Conference.
Fang, Z., Gresser, V., Cao, P. & Zheng, J. (2020). Nominal complexities in school children’s informational writing. Paper presented at the American Association for Applied Linguistics Annual Conference.
Boehm, S. & Miller, H.C. (November, 2020). “You’ve messed with the wrong generation” YAL and youth political engagement. Presentation for the YA Studies Association.
Colantonio-Yurko, K., Boehm, S., Miller, H. C., & Olmstead, K. (November, 2020). Disrupting misogyny: Teaching about sexual violence in young adult literature during the #metoo era. Presentation for the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), Denver, CO.
Mundorf, J., Bainter, T., Bourn, J., Kohnen, A., Mertens, G., & Boehm, S. (November, 2020). Cross-curricular informational literacy: Confluences of inquiry. Presentation for the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), Denver, CO.
Hansen, A., Boehm, S., & Flake, C. (November, 2020). Mental health discussions and young adult literature. Presentation for the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), Denver, CO.
Miller, H. C., Colantonio-Yurko, K., Boehm, S., & Olmstead, K. (2020, October). K-12 literacy instruction in the #metoo era. Presentation for the International Literacy Association (ILA), Columbus, OH.
Publications
Weisberg, L., Wang, X., Wusylko, C., & Kohnen, A. (2022). Critical Online Information Evaluation (COIE): A comprehensive model for curriculum and assessment design. Journal of Media Literacy Education, 15(1), 14-30.
Wusylko, C., Boehm, S., Dawson, K., & Kohnen, A. (2022). Adolescent Social Media Information Literacy Outside of School: A Scoping Review of the Literacy and Educational Technology Literature. Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 51(1), 629-647.
Liu, M., Pan, Z., Li, C., Han, S., Shi, Y., & Pan, X. (2021). Using Learning Analytics to Support Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: A Systematic Focused Review of Journal Publications from 2016 to Present. International Journal on E-Learning, 20(2), 137-169.
Kim, H. J., & Uysal, H. (2021). Shifting the discourse of plagiarism and ethics: A cultural opportunity in higher education. International Journal of Ethics Education, 6(1), 163-176.
Uysal, H. (2021). [Review of the book Transforming literacy education for long-term English learners: Recognizing brilliance in the undervalued, by M. D. Brooks]. The CATESOL Journal, 32(1), 221-222.
Fang, Z., Gresser, V., Cao, P. & Zheng, J. (2021). Nominal complexities in school children’s informational writing, Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 50, 1-15.
Miller, H. C. & Boehm, S. (2021). A civic and literary coalition: Analyzing young adult literature and news media in secondary ELA. The English Record, 71(2), 49-60.
Kohnen, A., Mertens, G., Hampton, J., Fu, D. (2020). A Study of Middle School Students’ Online Credibility Assessments: Challenges and Possibilities. Research in the Teaching of English, 56(1), 33-59.
Cao, P (2020). Review of Pre-K Stories: Playing with Authorship and Integrating Curriculum in Early Childhood. Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 16(1), 1-8.
Dowie-Chin, T., Cowley, M.P.S., & Worlds, M. (2020). Whitewashing through film: How educators can use critical race media literacy to analyze Hollywood’s adaptation of Angie Thomas’s the hate u give. International Journal of Multicultural Education, 22(2), 129. https://doi.org/10.18251/ijme.v22i2.2457
Fang, Z., Cao, P., & Murray, N. (2020). Language and meaning making: Register choices in seventh- and ninth-grade students’ factual writing. Linguistics and Education, 56, 1-12.
Townsend, S., Colantonio-Yurko, K., Graziani, D., & Boehm, S. (2021). Connections, continuities, and critical lapses: Underperforming and underprepared in school writing. Journal of Literacy Innovation, 6(1), 57-73.
Townsend, J., & Crane, S. (2019). We, the jury: Documenting diverse responses to Delia’s culpability in Zora Neale Hurston’s “Sweat” Ubiquity. The Journal of Literature, Literacy, and the Arts, 5(2), 7-38.
Boehm, S., Colantonio-Yurko, K., Olmstead, K., & Miller, H. C. (2020). Athlete as agitator, assaulter, and armor: Sports, identity, and sexual assault in young adult literature. Study and Scrutiny: Research on Young Adult Literature, 4(2), 31-56. https://doi.org/10.15763/issn.2376-5275.2020.4.2.31-56
Kohnen, A. M., Mertens, G. E., & Boehm, S. M. (2020). Can middle schoolers learn to read the web like experts? Possibilities and limits of a strategy-based intervention. Journal of Media Literacy Education, 12(2), 64-79. https://doi.org/10.23860/JMLE-2020-12-2-6
Miller, H.C., Colantonio-Yurko, K., & Boehm, S. (2020). Confronting concerns, navigating politics: Teaching young adult literature in high school English departments. English Leadership Quarterly, 42(2), 11-15.
Boehm, S. (2019). The power in progress: Developing writers through personal writing critiques. Florida English Journal, 54(1), 45-49.
