Alida Anderson

Biographic Data

ID3914090
NAMEAlida Anderson
GIVEN NAMESAlida
FAMILY NAMEAnderson
SIGNATUREANDERSON A
AFFILIATIONSAmerican University
ORCID0000-0003-0603-7659
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS4
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Identifying sources of preservice teachers’ dyslexia knowledge to guide teacher education

    Open AccessSusan J Chambre, Alida AndersonARTICLEFrontiers in Education2025

    This paper presents findings from an exploratory descriptive qualitative inquiry of preservice teachers’ (PSTs’) self-reported dyslexia knowledge sources. The purpose of this research is to provide a baseline understanding of how and where PSTs’ understandings of dyslexia originate to inform teacher educators about sources of misconceptions and to support PSTs’ conceptual growth about dyslexia. Seventy-six PSTs in the United States completed writ…

  • The Influence of Culturally Responsive Literacy Practices on Students’ Literacy Motivation

    Open AccessAlida Anderson, Danielle Gervais Sodani et al.ARTICLESAGE Open2025

    This study investigated the influence of a high intensity reading tutoring intervention program combining culturally responsive literacy (CRL) and science-of-reading (SOR) practices on primary grade students’ literacy motivation. Participants included 10 university-trained tutors working with 38 kindergarten through third-grade students who experienced literacy challenges in two urban elementary schools in the mid-Atlantic region of the United St…

  • Maternal Pre-Pregnancy BMI and Gestational Weight Gain Are Associated with Preschool Children’s Neuropsychological Outcomes in the APrON Cohort

    Open AccessGillian England-Mason, Alida Anderson et al.ARTICLEChildren2023

    This study examined the associations between maternal pre-pregnancy BMI and gestational weight gain (GWG) and children's neuropsychological outcomes at 3 to 5 years of age. A total of 379 women and their children from the Alberta Pregnancy Outcomes and Nutrition (APrON) study participated. Covariate-adjusted robust regressions examined associations between maternal pre-pregnancy BMI, GWG class, interaction terms, and child outcomes. Each unit inc…

  • Spatial thinking activities in PK-12 classrooms

    Open AccessJazelle Pilato, Emily Grossnickle Peterson et al.ARTICLETeaching and Teacher Education2023References: 4

  • Advancing School Professionals’ Dyslexia Knowledge Through Neuroscience

    Open AccessAlida AndersonARTICLEFrontiers in Education2021

    This review presents a summary of the research on advancing dyslexia knowledge among school professionals. It contributes to the literature with a proposed solution for professional development and teacher training through the field of developmental psychology. The article outlines what has been done to address the science-education gap owing to misunderstandings about dyslexia, proposing a solution to advance school professionals’ knowledge of d…

  • A Review of Online Dyslexia Learning Modules

    Open AccessAlida Anderson, Gabrielle L Sarlo et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Education2020

    This paper presents a comprehensive review of publicly available online dyslexia learning modules with a particular focus on the extent to which modules address the prevalent myth that dyslexia is caused by “backwards reading.” The authors conducted a systematic internet search to identify publicly available online dyslexia learning modules and coded the content across education, neurocognition, and policy disciplinary domains. We identified 18 t…

  • Advancing Global Citizenship Education Through Global Competence and Critical Literacy

    Open AccessAlida AndersonARTICLESAGE Open2019Cited by: 1References: 9

    This article presents a critical policy overview of inclusive education and global citizenship education (GCED) and offers two innovative childhood education practices that support inclusion of children with disabilities through dimensions of physical and conceptual access, both noted implementation barriers to inclusive education across the globe. The first section summarizes global human rights and education initiatives that support GCED throug…

  • The Influence of Classroom Drama on English Learners’ Academic Language Use During English Language Arts Lessons

    Alida Anderson, Sandra M LoughlinARTICLEBilingual Research Journal2014Cited by: 1References: 8

    Teacher and student academic discourse was examined in an urban arts-integrated school to better understand facilitation of students' English language learning. Participants' discourse was compared across English language arts (ELA) lessons with and without classroom drama in a third-grade classroom of English learning (EL) students (N = 18) with Spanish as their home language (L1) and English as their second language (L2). Students used signific…

  • The Influence of Process Drama on Elementary Students’ Written Language

    Open AccessAlida AndersonARTICLEUrban Education2012Cited by: 2References: 44

    This article describes the influence of process drama on fourth grade students’ written language productivity and specificity. Participants included 16 students with learning and/or behavioral challenges at an urban public charter school. The influence of process drama on students’ written language was compared across contextualized and decontextualized activities to identify associations between activities and language outcomes. Significant incr…