Nance S Wilson

Biographic Data

ID1603683
NAMENance S Wilson
GIVEN NAMESNance S
FAMILY NAMEWilson
SIGNATUREWILSON N S
AFFILIATIONSSUNY Cortland
ORCID0000-0001-7967-8284
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS88
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • The Climb Model of Reading

    Open AccessBrittany Adams, Karyn A Allee-Herndon et al.ARTICLEEarly Childhood Education Journal2026

  • Exploring Asynchronous Implementation of the Gradual Release of Responsibility Framework to Support Graduate Students’ Metacognition When Reading Digital Academic Texts

    Open AccessElizabeth Y Stevens, Nance S Wilson et al.ARTICLEEducation Sciences2025

    Learning is occurring increasingly online, often asynchronously, and sometimes that presents a barrier to instructional delivery on metacognitive behaviors that might easily be modeled in traditional classrooms. However, such metacognitive behaviors are essential to engaging deeply with academic texts. The research team involved in this paper is part of ongoing design-based research exploring the use of social annotation to support students as me…

  • DmQAR

    Open AccessBrittany Adams, Nance S Wilson et al.ARTICLEEducation Sciences2025

    This paper proposes the Digital Metacognitive Question–Answer Relationship (dmQAR) Framework, an adaptation of traditional QAR models for the complexities of digital reading environments. In response to the nonlinear, multimodal, and algorithmically curated nature of online texts, the dmQAR Framework scaffolds purposeful metacognitive questioning to support comprehension, evaluation, and critical engagement. Drawing on research in metacognition, …

  • Disrupting Niceness in Literacy Teacher Education

    Open AccessAmy Tondreau, Wendy L Gardiner et al.ARTICLEJournal of Teacher Education2025References: 45

    Many teacher educators seek to implement culturally relevant pedagogy (CRP) in their courses. However, enactment is often mediated by our socialization into whiteness and niceness. This study investigates how our self-study community of practice (SSCoP) of eight White female literacy teacher educators at different institutions collaborated to narrow the gap between our aspirations for implementing CRP and enacted practice. Through analysis of col…

  • Nice Girls like Us

    Open AccessKarolyn L White, Sophie Degener et al.ARTICLEEducation Sciences2024

    Niceness includes behaviors such as avoiding conflict or controversial topics, being submissive and people-pleasing, performing teaching as “love” in uncritical ways, accepting deficit perspectives, and upholding patriarchal structures. In the spirit of Niceness, white female teachers often avoid the work of challenging inequitable systems because doing so leaves them vulnerable to being seen as “not nice” or troublemakers. In this article, we in…

  • Investigating Content Area Teachers Understanding of a Content Literacy Framework

    Open AccessNance S Wilson, Dana L Grisham et al.ARTICLEJournal of Adolescent & Adult…2009

    This study examined how content area teachers' literacy knowledge developed during a yearlong professional development initiative focused on using the framework of Question‐Answer Relationships (QAR) within explicit instruction. The initiative focused on the metacognitive thinking in which teachers engage during QAR instruction. The participating teachers' knowledge development was measured through their metacognitive understandings as demonstrat…

  • Engaging Young Adolescents in Social Action Through Photovoice

    Open AccessNance S Wilson, Nance Wilson et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Early Adolescence2007Cited by: 79References: 3

    The Youth Empowerment Strategies (YES!) project is an afterschool empowerment program and research project for underserved early adolescents. Central to YES! is an empowerment intervention that provides early adolescents with opportunities for civic engagement with other youth around issues of shared concern in their schools and neighborhoods. This article specifically focuses on the use of Photovoice as a promising way to engage youth in social …

  • Training Students as Facilitators in the Youth Empowerment Strategies (YES!) Project

    Nance S Wilson, Nance Wilson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Community Practice2006Cited by: 9References: 24

    This article describes the training of students as facilitators for the Youth Empowerment Strategies (YES!) project designed to promote problem-solving, social action and civic participation among underserved elementary school youth in West Contra Costa County, California. This project involved 160 fifth grade students in after-school activities which identified their capacities and strengths in ways which aimed to decrease rates of alcohol, toba…

  • Effects of an Elementary School Intervention on Students' “Connectedness” to School and Social Adjustment During Middle School

    Open AccessVictor Battistich, Eric Schaps et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Primary Prevention2004