MARAVENE TAYLOR (BETH) Special Education

JOURNAL ARTICLES PUBLISHED:

With Williams, J. P., & deCani, J. S. "Constructing Macrostructure for Expository Text."
Journal of Educational Psychology 75 (1984): 1965-1985.

With Williams, J. P. "Comprehension of Learning Disabled Readers: Task and Text
Variations." Journal of Educational Psychology 75 (1983): 743-751.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS:

Book 2: Reading. State of Connecticut, Department of Education, CONNCEPT Study
Guide For Writing and Reading, 1987.

With Williams, J. P., Jarin, D. C., & Milligan, E. S. Determining the Main Idea of
Expository Paragraphs: An Instructional Program for the Learning Disabled and Its
Evaluation. Technical Report No. 25, Research Institute for the Study of Learning
Disabilities, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1983.

CONFERENCE PAPERS ORALLY DELIVERED:

"Literacy Activities for Educationally At-Risk African-American Elementary School
Children Using Whole Language and Direct Instruction Methods." Topical Conference on
Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Exceptional Learners sponsored by the Council for
Exceptional Children, Minneapolis, November 1992.

With Williams J. P., & Jarin, D. C. "Research on Text Structure and Instructional
Development: Determining the Main Idea of Expository Paragraphs." American
Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, April 1983.

With Williams, J. P. "Comprehension of Learning Disabled Readers: Task and Text
Variations." American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, NY, March
1982.

With Williams, J. P. "The Development of the Ability to Comprehend Simple Expository
Paragraphs." American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles,
April 1981.

With Williams, J. P., & Ganger, S. "Factors Affecting Children's Ability to Detect
Inappropriate Information in Paragraphs." Annual Meeting of the American Educational
Research Association, Boston, April 1980.

RECENT GRANTS RECEIVED:

"Integrating Educational Computer Literacy Competencies into Core Course on Academic
Remediation." Faculty Development Grant, Summer 1995

"Models for Developing Integrated, Faculty-Supervised Field-Based Components in Core
Courses." Dean of School of Education sponsored project, Summer 1994

"Student Literacy Corps in an Urban School." Grant funded by the Student Literacy Corps
Program of the Office of Post-Secondary School Education of the United States
Department of Education, 1991-1993

"Writing Skills of Students at Southern Connecticut State University." University grant,
1987-1988

DISSERTATION TITLE:

The Effects on Text Recall of Local and Global Organization Variations

INSTITUTION GRANTING PH.D.:

Columbia University