Douglas Fisher
Biographic Data
| ID | 3709738 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Douglas Fisher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Douglas |
| FAMILY NAME | Fisher |
| SIGNATURE | FISHER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Diego State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4630-0036 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 60 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 52 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 8 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Model for Adolescent Reading Instruction
This rapid review and knowledge synthesis study presents a multicomponent model for adolescent reading instruction aimed at improving Tier 1 classroom practices across content areas. The authors conducted a rapid review of literature (RRL) on recent research on effective reading instruction and identified six evidence-based components necessary in reading instruction for students in middle and high school classrooms. The proposed Reading Circuit …
Teach all Standards
The difficulty of teaching all the grade-level standards has led some educators to identify a small number of priority standards to focus on. However, this approach creates an iceberg effect in which more and more untaught content accumulates below the surface. Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey explain that students deserve the opportunity to learn all the content and skills required of them under the standards. Studies of high-performing schools that c…
Veteran Teachers’ Understanding of “Balanced Literacy”
The term balanced literacy was popularized in the mid-1990s to describe a middle ground in terms of text selection, instruction, skills, and strategies. The intention was to merge the promising elements of whole language and phonics. Interactions with educators and literacy leaders across the country currently suggest that a term that had been seemingly well defined 20 years ago had become more vague. This descriptive study polled 25 veteran teac…
What really matters in play
This article seeks to reframe how early childhood educators think about their role in play by answering these questions: What really matters in play? How should we spend our time and energy planning, implementing, and building our expertise around play in early childhood teaching and learning? The answers reside in 5 big ideas from play research studies, meta-analyses, and meta-syntheses. We unpack these research findings and show the implication…
University Faculty Talk About Practitioner Research: A Conversation
This forum highlights research that literacy teachers, students, and others can explore, use, or adapt as they provide literacy instruction and develop related programs and research agendas
Make Deliberate Practice Part of Your Classroom Routine
This forum highlights research that literacy teachers, students, and others can explore, use, or adapt as they provide literacy instruction and develop related programs and research agendas
Practitioner Advice for Getting Started With Practitioner Research
This forum highlights research that literacy teachers, students, and others can explore, use, or adapt as they provide literacy instruction and develop related programs and research agendas
Teacher Credibility in Literacy Learning
This forum highlights research that literacy teachers, students, and others can explore, use, or adapt as they provide literacy instruction and develop related programs and research agendas
Exploring New Ways of Literacy Instruction Through Practitioner Research
This forum highlights research that literacy teachers, students, and others can explore, use, or adapt as they provide literacy instruction and develop related programs and research agendas
Peer Tutoring: “To Teach Is to Learn Twice”
This forum highlights research that literacy teachers, students, and others can explore, use, or adapt as they provide literacy instruction and develop related programs and research agendas
Practitioner Researcher and Agency
This forum highlights research that literacy teachers, students, and others can explore, use, or adapt as they provide literacy instruction and develop related programs and research agendas
The Links Between Social and Emotional Learning and Literacy
This forum highlights research that literacy teachers, students, and others can explore, use, or adapt as they provide literacy instruction and develop related programs and research agendas
Exploring Identity Through Literacy Practice and Practitioner Research
This forum highlights research that literacy teachers, students, and others can explore, use, or adapt as they provide literacy instruction and develop related programs and research agendas
Where Does the Money Go? Trends in Supporting California English Learners in District Local Control Accountability Plans
In 2013, the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) was enacted to replace the previous California school finance system. The purpose was to stream various funding sources (e.g., basic revenues, categorical funds, block grants) such that districts could engage in comprehensive planning to support all students. Additional monies designated for English Learners, foster youth, and students living in poverty supplement district funding. We analyzed dis…
All Learning Is Social and Emotional: Helping Students Develop Essential Skills for the Classroom and Beyond
If you teach kids rather than standards, and if you want all kids to get what they need to thrive, Nancy Frey, Douglas Fisher, and Dominique Smith offer a solution: a comprehensive, five-part model of SEL that's easy to integrate into everyday content instruction, no matter what subject or grade level you teach. You'll learn the hows and whys of : * Building students' sense of identity and confidence in their ability to learn, overcome challenge,…
Reading and Writing on Screen and Paper
This forum highlights research that literacy teachers, students, and others can explore, use, or adapt as they provide literacy instruction and develop related programs and research agendas
The Enduring Value of Study Skills
This forum highlights research that literacy teachers, students, and others can explore, use, or adapt as they provide literacy instruction and develop related programs and research agendas
Practitioner Research: Inquiry That Impacts Adolescent and Adult Literacy Learning and Teaching
This forum highlights research that literacy teachers, students, and others can explore, use, or adapt as they provide literacy instruction and develop related programs and research agendas
Surface, Deep, and Transfer? Considering the Role of Content Literacy Instructional Strategies
This article provides an organizational review of content literacy instructional strategies to forward a claim that some strategies work better for surface learning, whereas others are more effective for deep learning and still others for transfer learning. The authors argue that the failure to adopt content literacy strategies by disciplinary teachers may be due, in part, to the mismatch between the approach and the level of learning expected
Students Can Purposefully Create Information, Not Just Consume It
Social media has become adolescents' primary platform for communicating with one another. As a school faculty we wanted to explore our students' ability to contribute new information while being sensitive not to co‐opt their out of school literacies for school‐based purposes.This article shares how teachers in one urban school redesigned curriculum and instruction to provide experiences that encourgaed and supported students as they engaged in th…
Close Reading as an Intervention for Struggling Middle School Readers
Thousands and thousands of middle school students around the world participate in reading intervention programs, many that are very expensive with limited effectiveness. We wanted to know if an after-school intervention focused on close reading procedures could improve student achievement. Close reading of complex text involves annotations, repeated reading, text-dependent questions, and discussions. This manuscript reports on 75 students in grad…
Text-Dependent Questions
Learning to Talk Like the Test: Guiding Speakers of African American Vernacular English
In this article, we focus on instructional support for 91 students who speak African American Vernacular English and who are at high risk for not passing the required state exams. We profile the instruction that was provided and the results from that instruction, providing examples of how students’ language was scaffolded such that they could code switch between test language (standard academic English) and the languages of their homes
Persuasion = Stating and Arguing Claims Well
Inside a ninth‐grade classroom, we witness one teacher's very intentional instructional attempts that resulted in her students being able to convey well‐crafted reasoning and text‐supported evidence to mount persuasive arguments. Through personal examples and Internet resources, the teacher concretized pathos, logos, and ethos. The teacher and students together analyzed various documents, including literary and political speeches, for persuasive …
Purposeful Instruction: Mixing Up The “I,” “We,” and “You”
This article discusses the flexible nature of the gradual release of responsibility ( GRR ) as a frame for inquiry‐based science instruction. Given the mandate for the use of text‐supported learning (Common Core Standards), the GRR can be used to allow students to learn as scientists as they collaboratively develop testable questions and experiments that direct them to look at real‐world issues. Through various configurations of modeling, guided …
The Price Revolution: A Monetary Interpretation
This article presents tests of the role of money in the price revolution (1525–1618). The hypothesis is that American specie drove European prices, and that the mechanism was the quantity theory of money buttressed by the specie-flow mechanism. Specie entered Spain, increasing Spanish prices, and then spread over Western Europe as a result of the Spanish balance-of-payments deficit, enlarging European monetary bases and price levels. Empirical ve…
Monetary Statistics of the United States
Journal Article Friedman (M.) and Schwartz (A. J.). Monetary Statistics of the United States Get access Monetary Statistics of the United States. By M. Friedman and A.J. Schwartz. (New York and London: Columbia University Press for the National Bureau of Economic Research, 1970. Pp. xx + 629. $6.75.) D. Fisher D. Fisher University of Essex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 81, Is…
Examining the general programmatic benefits of inclusive schools
The key elements of inclusive practices in the USA are examined through the lens of research from around the world. Pull-out and schoolwide programming are discussed, as well as membership and ability grouping. Student outcomes and student achievement studies are reviewed, and recommendations are made for future research
Using common formative assessments as a source of professional development in an urban American elementary school
Integration of the European business cycle: 1871–1910
Sweden's Financial Sophistication in the Nineteenth Century: An Appraisal
The article tests a variant of Lars G. Sandberg's “financial sophistication hypothesis.” Sandberg argues that Sweden had an unusually large stock of financial capital in 1850 which, along with a highly literate populace, was paramount in the subsequent economic explosion. Unable to test the hypothesis directly, we use a variant—that the financial sector was a leading sector in Swedish development—amenable to time-series tests of the Granger-causa…
What really matters in play
This article seeks to reframe how early childhood educators think about their role in play by answering these questions: What really matters in play? How should we spend our time and energy planning, implementing, and building our expertise around play in early childhood teaching and learning? The answers reside in 5 big ideas from play research studies, meta-analyses, and meta-syntheses. We unpack these research findings and show the implication…
Does Homework Matter? An Investigation of Teacher Perceptions About Homework Practices for Children From Nondominant Backgrounds
It is common for teachers in all districts across the United States to give homework to their students. Given the rising numbers of children from nondominant backgrounds 1 in American schools, a question that merits consideration is how children from nondominant backgrounds—particularly in large urban centers—are impacted by teachers' homework practices. In this study we explored why teachers in one large U.S. urban center assign homework, the ki…
The Structure of Interest Rates: A Comment
Expectations, the Term Structure of Interest Rates, and Recent British Experience
Recently, confidence in the Expectations Hypothesis, which states that the shape of the structure of interest rates is determined by the actions of speculators in such a way that long-term and short-term securities are good substitutes for one another, has been weakened with reference to the British experience.2 These contradictions, both empirical and theoretical, have even cast doubt on earlier test results obtained by David Meiselman on the Am…
[The Structure of Interest Rates and Recent British Experience]: Reply
Modern Small Industry for Developing Countries: A Paradox in Planning EconomicsModern Small Industry for Developing Countries. Eugene Staley , Richard Morse
Real Balances and the Demand for Money
Monetary Statistics of the United States
Journal Article Friedman (M.) and Schwartz (A. J.). Monetary Statistics of the United States Get access Monetary Statistics of the United States. By M. Friedman and A.J. Schwartz. (New York and London: Columbia University Press for the National Bureau of Economic Research, 1970. Pp. xx + 629. $6.75.) D. Fisher D. Fisher University of Essex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 81, Is…
The Behavior of Interest Rates
The Term Structure of Interest Rates: An Expectations Model Tested on Post- War Italian Data
The Speculative Demand for Money: An Empirical Test
Econometric Studies of Macro and Monetary Relations
Expectations, Uncertainty and the Term Structure of Interest Rates
An overview of yield-to-maturity curves and theories of the term structure the traditional or expectations theory of the term structure of interest rates the meiselman hypothesis in theory and practice the malkiel theory, its hypothesis and their empirical value liquidity or risk premiums and the term structure of interest rates on teh hedging pressure theory of the term structure a perspective - suggestions for further research
Monetarism
Sweden's Financial Sophistication in the Nineteenth Century: An Appraisal
The article tests a variant of Lars G. Sandberg's “financial sophistication hypothesis.” Sandberg argues that Sweden had an unusually large stock of financial capital in 1850 which, along with a highly literate populace, was paramount in the subsequent economic explosion. Unable to test the hypothesis directly, we use a variant—that the financial sector was a leading sector in Swedish development—amenable to time-series tests of the Granger-causa…
The Price Revolution: A Monetary Interpretation
This article presents tests of the role of money in the price revolution (1525–1618). The hypothesis is that American specie drove European prices, and that the mechanism was the quantity theory of money buttressed by the specie-flow mechanism. Specie entered Spain, increasing Spanish prices, and then spread over Western Europe as a result of the Spanish balance-of-payments deficit, enlarging European monetary bases and price levels. Empirical ve…
Money-Demand Variability: A Demand-Systems Approach
This article tests the Fourier flexible form on quarterly U.S. monetary data. The data have been prescreened for consistency with the general axiom of revealed preference, and subindexes are formed using the Divisia approach. In this article, the global Fourier model fits well, although there is a potential problem of overfitting and certain data points exhibit behavior inconsistent with the model. The elasticities are variable over time, particu…
Integration of the European business cycle: 1871–1910
Examining the general programmatic benefits of inclusive schools
The key elements of inclusive practices in the USA are examined through the lens of research from around the world. Pull-out and schoolwide programming are discussed, as well as membership and ability grouping. Student outcomes and student achievement studies are reviewed, and recommendations are made for future research
Setting the “Opportunity to Read” Standard: Resuscitating the SSR Program in an Urban High School
Providing students with time to read during school has been questioned by researchers and practitioners. This article reports on the efforts of one school to resuscitate a schoolwide initiative to provide students the opportunity to read. A single comment made by a student led to committee work and significant policy changes. A chronicle of events over two years and an analysis of the factors that ensure successful Silent Sustained Reading progra…
The Literacy Educator's Role in Suicide Prevention
Suicide, the second leading cause of death for adolescents in the United States, is preventable. Nearly 80% of individuals who commit suicide have demonstrated signs well in advance. Adolescent suicide prevention efforts require collaboration with teachers—individuals who know students well. Literacy educators have a role in suicide prevention—sharing books on the topic, talking with students, carefully reading student writing, and inviting guest…
Evaluating the Interventions for Struggling Adolescent Readers
Struggling adolescent readers need interventions that provide them with opportunities to read more and to read better. The authors examine two case studies of interventions at work and propose criteria on which to evaluate intervention programs. Their review of the evidence on these programs for struggling adolescent readers suggests that at least five factors must be present for the intervention to matter: The teacher should play a critical role…
Doing collaboration’: The process of constructing an educational community in an urban elementary school
Collaboration has been considered one of the key features of a successful school. However, the literature does not provide many examples of schools becoming more collaborative. This study focuses on the construction of a collaborative community among elementary school teachers in a large, public, urban school over several years. The researchers followed a group of students and teachers as they learned together through looping in kindergarten and …
This Issue
A Tale of Two Middle Schools: The Differences in Structure and Instruction
In this exploration of school improvement work, two teachers at two schools worked hard to improve literacy achievement, but the performance at only one of the schools resulted in significant growth. By spending time observing classrooms and interacting with students, the authors believe that two factors made the difference: school structures and instructional procedures. The more successful school used time to their advantage and agreed to speci…
Does Homework Matter? An Investigation of Teacher Perceptions About Homework Practices for Children From Nondominant Backgrounds
It is common for teachers in all districts across the United States to give homework to their students. Given the rising numbers of children from nondominant backgrounds 1 in American schools, a question that merits consideration is how children from nondominant backgrounds—particularly in large urban centers—are impacted by teachers' homework practices. In this study we explored why teachers in one large U.S. urban center assign homework, the ki…
Professional Resources
Psychology (41 works) · Pedagogy (38 works) · Mathematics education (34 works) · Computer Science (19 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (18 works) · Economics (17 works) · Literacy (16 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Political science (11 works) · Reading (process (11 works)