Elizabeth Swanson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4006114 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Swanson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Swanson |
| SIGNATURE | SWANSON E |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4335-9676 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Interventions for students with reading difficulties in Grades 4-12
Science Instruction for Students With Learning Disabilities
Elementary students with learning disabilities (LDs) often have limited opportunities to learn science, and little is known about how special educators engage in science instruction. This study drew on a nationally representative survey of elementary special education teachers to describe their roles, preparedness, time allocation, and perceived barriers. Most teachers reported minimal discipline-specific preparation and felt less prepared to tea…
Student Feedback Use During Cross-Age Peer Tutoring
High-quality feedback is a powerful tool to support student learning with benefits for both those who receive and provide feedback. This study investigates the frequency and type of feedback fourth- and fifth-grade students used when delivering Sound Partners lessons to a younger peer. Results indicate that student tutors were successful in providing responsive academic and behavioral feedback for their younger tutee, with more than 850 instances…
The Development of a Coaching Model
Instructional coaching is one way to support teachers’ implementation of evidence-based practices, but gaps exist in knowledge about effective coaching interventions to support teacher learning at the secondary level. In this article, we first introduce an adaptive intervention model (AIM) for coaching, AIM Coaching, a coaching model designed for middle school instructional leaders to use to support teachers as they implement evidence-based liter…
Intensification of a Reading Comprehension Intervention Using Student Data
Many students in the upper elementary grades and beyond uniquely struggle with reading comprehension, necessitating explicit instruction and remediation in this area. This U.S. study used data-based decision-making (DBDM), a research-based systematic approach to student data collection and analysis, to intensify the evidence-based Strategies for Reading Information and Vocabulary Effectively (STRIVE) reading comprehension intervention. Results in…
National Survey of 4th and 5th Grade Science Education Teachers
Elementary science education, particularly in the 4th and 5th grades, is essential for setting the foundation for lifelong science learning, fostering critical thinking, and preparing students for success in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. This stage is especially critical for students with disabilities, as achievement gaps between them and their peers emerge during elementary school. Despite this importance, litt…
The Guantánamo Artwork and Testimony of Moath Al-Alwi
The effects of a tier 2 reading comprehension intervention aligned to tier 1 instruction for fourth graders with inattention and reading difficulties
Longitudinal academic, language, and social emotional learning outcomes of graduates of a one‐way Spanish Immersion program
Seven cohorts of students ( N = 258) who completed a K‐5 Spanish Immersion (SI) program in a suburban California school district were followed longitudinally through middle and high school to understand their academic, language, and social emotional outcomes. Academic and language outcomes included Spanish classes and grades, standardized Math and English Language Arts test scores, high school grade point average (GPA), language class enrollment,…
Evidence-Based Reading Instruction for Students with Inattention
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is characterized by persistently high levels of inattention, hyperactivity, and/or impulsivity that interfere with functioning. Inattention is significantly related to lower reading outcomes, whereas hyperactivity/impulsivity alone is not. Strategies to Read Information Texts and Vocabulary Effectively (STRIVE) is a set of evidence-based instructional practices targeting vocabulary and reading compr…
Sustaining the Use of Evidence-Based Tier 1 Literacy Practices That Benefit Students With Disabilities
The adoption and sustainability of evidence-based Tier 1 literacy practices in secondary content-area classes is important to improve reading success for students with learning disabilities. We conducted an exploratory multiple-case study investigating teachers’ adoption and sustained use of evidence-based Tier 1 literacy practices that benefit students with learning disabilities. The study was conducted within the context of an adolescent litera…
Mindset, stereotype threat and the academic achievement gap between Chinese and Latinx English Learners (ELs)
The efficacy of comprehension and vocabulary focused professional development on English learners’ literacy
Longitudinal study of Spanish Dual Language Immersion graduates
Five cohorts of students ( N = 322) who completed a K–5 Spanish Dual Language Immersion (DLI) program in an urban school district were followed longitudinally through middle and high school completion. Academic and language achievement data included English Language Arts and Mathematics scores on the Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) test for grades 3–8 and on the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) for 11th…
Examining factors affecting reading and math growth and achievement gaps in grades 1–5
Despite focused efforts, achievement gaps remain a problem in the America's education system, especially those between students from higher and lower income families. Continued work on reducing these gaps benefits from an understanding of students' reading and math growth from typical school instruction and how growth differs based on initial proficiency, grade, and demographic characteristics. Data from 5,900 students in Grades 1-5 tested in mat…
Rape, Representation, and the Endurance of Hegemonic Masculinity
This article mines the history of rape jurisprudence to illuminate how the legal treatment of wartime rape informs long-standing gendered tropes that dominate its understanding on the ground as well as its representation in literary and cultural texts. The essay concludes by reading Congolese novelist Emmanuel Dongala's Johnny Mad Dog as a model for a dialogic literary imagination capable of revealing the fatal consequences of toxic masculinity a…
Witnessing Torture
Human Bondage and Abolition
Slavery's expansion across the globe often escapes notice because it operates as an underground criminal enterprise, rather than as a legal institution. In this volume, Elizabeth Swanson and James Brewer Stewart bring together scholars from across disciplines to address and expose the roots of modern-day slavery from a historical perspective as a means of supporting activist efforts to fight it in the present. They trace modern slavery to its man…
Freedom, Commerce, Bodies, Harm
This article situates lawsuits against Backpage.com in the context of changing laws and norms of sexual commerce and trafficking, and of evolving legal interpretations of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Section 230 has been used repeatedly to shield internet service providers such as Backpage.com from liability for content generated by third parties that has led to criminal harm to others; in this case, the trafficking and commerci…
Improving Reading Comprehension and Social Studies Knowledge in Middle School
This study aimed to determine the efficacy of a content acquisition and reading comprehension treatment implemented by eighth‐grade social studies teachers. Using a within‐teacher design, the eighth‐grade teachers’ social studies classes were randomly assigned to treatment or comparison conditions. Teachers ( n = 5) taught the same instructional content to both treatment and comparison classes, but the treatment classes used instructional practic…
Efficacy of Collaborative Strategic Reading With Middle School Students
The authors conducted an experimental study to examine the effects of collaborative strategic reading and metacognitive strategic learning on the reading comprehension of students in seventh- and eighth-grade English/language arts classes in two sites (Texas, Colorado) and in three school districts. Students were randomly assigned to classes and then classes were randomly assigned to treatment or business-as-usual comparison groups. If a teacher …
Degree of Closeness
This research project investigated the attitudes of bereaved individuals toward selected funeral practices. Six selected variables (three characteristics of the bereaved and three conditions of the death situation) were correlated to nineteen components of the funeral. The characteristics were sex, closeness to the deceased, and religious preference; the conditions were timing of the death, viewing at the funeral home and location of the funeral …
Four Common Myths About Change in Schools of Education
Improving Reading Comprehension and Social Studies Knowledge in Middle School
This study aimed to determine the efficacy of a content acquisition and reading comprehension treatment implemented by eighth‐grade social studies teachers. Using a within‐teacher design, the eighth‐grade teachers’ social studies classes were randomly assigned to treatment or comparison conditions. Teachers ( n = 5) taught the same instructional content to both treatment and comparison classes, but the treatment classes used instructional practic…
Efficacy of Collaborative Strategic Reading With Middle School Students
The authors conducted an experimental study to examine the effects of collaborative strategic reading and metacognitive strategic learning on the reading comprehension of students in seventh- and eighth-grade English/language arts classes in two sites (Texas, Colorado) and in three school districts. Students were randomly assigned to classes and then classes were randomly assigned to treatment or business-as-usual comparison groups. If a teacher …
Longitudinal study of Spanish Dual Language Immersion graduates
Five cohorts of students ( N = 322) who completed a K–5 Spanish Dual Language Immersion (DLI) program in an urban school district were followed longitudinally through middle and high school completion. Academic and language achievement data included English Language Arts and Mathematics scores on the Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) test for grades 3–8 and on the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) for 11th…
Rape, Representation, and the Endurance of Hegemonic Masculinity
This article mines the history of rape jurisprudence to illuminate how the legal treatment of wartime rape informs long-standing gendered tropes that dominate its understanding on the ground as well as its representation in literary and cultural texts. The essay concludes by reading Congolese novelist Emmanuel Dongala's Johnny Mad Dog as a model for a dialogic literary imagination capable of revealing the fatal consequences of toxic masculinity a…
Four Common Myths About Change in Schools of Education
Degree of Closeness
This research project investigated the attitudes of bereaved individuals toward selected funeral practices. Six selected variables (three characteristics of the bereaved and three conditions of the death situation) were correlated to nineteen components of the funeral. The characteristics were sex, closeness to the deceased, and religious preference; the conditions were timing of the death, viewing at the funeral home and location of the funeral …
Four Common Myths About Change in Schools of Education
Efficacy of Collaborative Strategic Reading With Middle School Students
The authors conducted an experimental study to examine the effects of collaborative strategic reading and metacognitive strategic learning on the reading comprehension of students in seventh- and eighth-grade English/language arts classes in two sites (Texas, Colorado) and in three school districts. Students were randomly assigned to classes and then classes were randomly assigned to treatment or business-as-usual comparison groups. If a teacher …
Improving Reading Comprehension and Social Studies Knowledge in Middle School
This study aimed to determine the efficacy of a content acquisition and reading comprehension treatment implemented by eighth‐grade social studies teachers. Using a within‐teacher design, the eighth‐grade teachers’ social studies classes were randomly assigned to treatment or comparison conditions. Teachers ( n = 5) taught the same instructional content to both treatment and comparison classes, but the treatment classes used instructional practic…
Freedom, Commerce, Bodies, Harm
This article situates lawsuits against Backpage.com in the context of changing laws and norms of sexual commerce and trafficking, and of evolving legal interpretations of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Section 230 has been used repeatedly to shield internet service providers such as Backpage.com from liability for content generated by third parties that has led to criminal harm to others; in this case, the trafficking and commerci…
Witnessing Torture
Human Bondage and Abolition
Slavery's expansion across the globe often escapes notice because it operates as an underground criminal enterprise, rather than as a legal institution. In this volume, Elizabeth Swanson and James Brewer Stewart bring together scholars from across disciplines to address and expose the roots of modern-day slavery from a historical perspective as a means of supporting activist efforts to fight it in the present. They trace modern slavery to its man…
Rape, Representation, and the Endurance of Hegemonic Masculinity
This article mines the history of rape jurisprudence to illuminate how the legal treatment of wartime rape informs long-standing gendered tropes that dominate its understanding on the ground as well as its representation in literary and cultural texts. The essay concludes by reading Congolese novelist Emmanuel Dongala's Johnny Mad Dog as a model for a dialogic literary imagination capable of revealing the fatal consequences of toxic masculinity a…
Examining factors affecting reading and math growth and achievement gaps in grades 1–5
Despite focused efforts, achievement gaps remain a problem in the America's education system, especially those between students from higher and lower income families. Continued work on reducing these gaps benefits from an understanding of students' reading and math growth from typical school instruction and how growth differs based on initial proficiency, grade, and demographic characteristics. Data from 5,900 students in Grades 1-5 tested in mat…
Mindset, stereotype threat and the academic achievement gap between Chinese and Latinx English Learners (ELs)
The efficacy of comprehension and vocabulary focused professional development on English learners’ literacy
Longitudinal study of Spanish Dual Language Immersion graduates
Five cohorts of students ( N = 322) who completed a K–5 Spanish Dual Language Immersion (DLI) program in an urban school district were followed longitudinally through middle and high school completion. Academic and language achievement data included English Language Arts and Mathematics scores on the Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) test for grades 3–8 and on the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) for 11th…
Evidence-Based Reading Instruction for Students with Inattention
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is characterized by persistently high levels of inattention, hyperactivity, and/or impulsivity that interfere with functioning. Inattention is significantly related to lower reading outcomes, whereas hyperactivity/impulsivity alone is not. Strategies to Read Information Texts and Vocabulary Effectively (STRIVE) is a set of evidence-based instructional practices targeting vocabulary and reading compr…
Sustaining the Use of Evidence-Based Tier 1 Literacy Practices That Benefit Students With Disabilities
The adoption and sustainability of evidence-based Tier 1 literacy practices in secondary content-area classes is important to improve reading success for students with learning disabilities. We conducted an exploratory multiple-case study investigating teachers’ adoption and sustained use of evidence-based Tier 1 literacy practices that benefit students with learning disabilities. The study was conducted within the context of an adolescent litera…
The Guantánamo Artwork and Testimony of Moath Al-Alwi
The effects of a tier 2 reading comprehension intervention aligned to tier 1 instruction for fourth graders with inattention and reading difficulties
Longitudinal academic, language, and social emotional learning outcomes of graduates of a one‐way Spanish Immersion program
Seven cohorts of students ( N = 258) who completed a K‐5 Spanish Immersion (SI) program in a suburban California school district were followed longitudinally through middle and high school to understand their academic, language, and social emotional outcomes. Academic and language outcomes included Spanish classes and grades, standardized Math and English Language Arts test scores, high school grade point average (GPA), language class enrollment,…
Intensification of a Reading Comprehension Intervention Using Student Data
Many students in the upper elementary grades and beyond uniquely struggle with reading comprehension, necessitating explicit instruction and remediation in this area. This U.S. study used data-based decision-making (DBDM), a research-based systematic approach to student data collection and analysis, to intensify the evidence-based Strategies for Reading Information and Vocabulary Effectively (STRIVE) reading comprehension intervention. Results in…
National Survey of 4th and 5th Grade Science Education Teachers
Elementary science education, particularly in the 4th and 5th grades, is essential for setting the foundation for lifelong science learning, fostering critical thinking, and preparing students for success in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. This stage is especially critical for students with disabilities, as achievement gaps between them and their peers emerge during elementary school. Despite this importance, litt…
Interventions for students with reading difficulties in Grades 4-12
Science Instruction for Students With Learning Disabilities
Elementary students with learning disabilities (LDs) often have limited opportunities to learn science, and little is known about how special educators engage in science instruction. This study drew on a nationally representative survey of elementary special education teachers to describe their roles, preparedness, time allocation, and perceived barriers. Most teachers reported minimal discipline-specific preparation and felt less prepared to tea…
Student Feedback Use During Cross-Age Peer Tutoring
High-quality feedback is a powerful tool to support student learning with benefits for both those who receive and provide feedback. This study investigates the frequency and type of feedback fourth- and fifth-grade students used when delivering Sound Partners lessons to a younger peer. Results indicate that student tutors were successful in providing responsive academic and behavioral feedback for their younger tutee, with more than 850 instances…
The Development of a Coaching Model
Instructional coaching is one way to support teachers’ implementation of evidence-based practices, but gaps exist in knowledge about effective coaching interventions to support teacher learning at the secondary level. In this article, we first introduce an adaptive intervention model (AIM) for coaching, AIM Coaching, a coaching model designed for middle school instructional leaders to use to support teachers as they implement evidence-based liter…
Psychology (16 works) · Mathematics education (13 works) · Pedagogy (8 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (8 works) · Reading comprehension (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Comprehension (6 works) · History (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Reading (process) (5 works)