Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript

Publication Type: Symposium Paper
Abstract: A private foundation provided funds to create the Center for Excellence in Literacy Instruction to promote partnerships between the School of Education and Barksdale Reading Institute and school districts. This center will begin a newly created Master's of Literacy Education degree program, will provide preservice teachers with more enhanced methods and field experiences related to literacy instruction, will provide schools districts and after school programs with tutoring services for struggling readers, and will provide school districts with access to professional development programs for teachers and administrators in the area of literacy instruction.

Publication Type: Multiple Paper Format
Abstract: This presentation addresses one university's redesign of their elementary education program to better reflect the changing face of the teaching of reading while recognizing the need for a more global understanding of texts and literacy.

Publication Type: Single Paper Format
Abstract: We will present a unique practicum for preservice elementary teachers' tutoring adults in an evening ESL program and explore how participants developed relationships with students and constructed pedagogical literacy knowledge.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: Research examining the social effects of mass media as it relates to body image distortion often considers some behavioral components, specifically excessive dieting, bingeing, and exercising, but little is known about the degree in which more positive media messages, specifically campaigns designed to promote positive attitudes and beliefs about body shape and size will effect the self and others. Using an experiment to test the effectiveness of four different media literacy campaigns on YouTube, this study tested the effectiveness of four stylistically different media literacy campaigns about body image and tested the possible factors that might increase or decrease the perceived effectiveness of each. Respondents in this study reported that the media literacy campaign about a celebrity’s struggle with extreme thinness proved to be the least effective of the four whereas the video presenting general information about the dangers of extreme dieting was perceived to be the most effective, at least for this sample. Self-discrepancy did not prove to be a significant predictor of perceived effectiveness of the campaign, and the amount of time spent on the Internet also proved to be a weak predictor of perceived effectiveness. These findings and the possible rationale for the lack of support with regard to the correlates of perceived effectiveness are discussed.