Brook Sawyer

Biographic Data

ID4630053
NAMEBrook Sawyer
GIVEN NAMESBrook
FAMILY NAMESawyer
SIGNATURESAWYER B
AFFILIATIONSLehigh University
ORCID0000-0002-3255-0117
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS32
AUTHOR COUNT12
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Heritage-Based Digital Storytelling for Elementary Multilingual Learners

    Open AccessEric S Schmidt, Brook SawyerARTICLEJournal of Education2026

    In order to provide equitable learning environments for all students, particularly multilingual learners (ML), educators must utilize engaging and culturally relevant-sustaining educational methods. Infusing digital storytelling (DST), creating a story or disseminating information through digital means, with a cultural lens is promising for MLs. This small-scale study’s purpose was to determine students’ and teachers’ perceptions about the Herita…

  • The influence of student language and student-teacher relationships on student-specific teacher self-efficacy in early childhood

    Christina N Wood, Patricia H Manz et al.ARTICLEBilingual Research Journal2024References: 10

    Teacher self-efficacy (TSE) changes according to context. Limited research has been conducted to understand how TSE can vary in relation to student characteristics or the student-teacher relationship (STR) in preschool. The aims of the current study were to 1) examine student-specific TSE variability among monolingual English-speaking and Spanish-speaking dual language learners (DLLs) and 2) examine the extent to which STR quality moderates the r…

  • Children’s Stress in the Time of Covid-19

    Open AccessBrook Sawyer, Fathima Wakeel et al.ARTICLEEducation Sciences2023

    Introduction: In response to the public health threats during the pandemic, many schools shifted to online instructional delivery, and many children experienced changes to their social and recreational activities. While an emerging body of literature is documenting these changes or how these experiences may be related to parents’ and children’s functioning, no known study has examined all of these constructs. We investigated the degree to which s…

  • Dominican, Salvadoran, and Chinese Immigrant Parents’ Reasoning About School Readiness Skills

    Open AccessBrook Sawyer, Bridget V Dever et al.ARTICLEChild & Youth Care Forum2022

  • School Readiness Beliefs of Dominican and Salvadoran Immigrant Parents

    Cassandra Simons, Susan Sonnenschein et al.ARTICLEEarly Education and Development2022

    Parents are children’s first teachers, and it is critical that they understand what children need to be successful in school. This study examined the school readiness beliefs of 43 Latinx immigrant parents from the Dominican Republic and El Salvador. Parents participated in semi-structured interviews regarding which skills their children should have before starting kindergarten, how they perceived their role in helping children acquire these skil…

  • Development of the Cecer-DLL child and family questionnaire

    Carol Scheffner Hammer, Lauren M Cycyk et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022

    As the number of dual language learners (DLLs) increases globally, it is critical that well-developed questionnaires are available to researchers and educators that capture the characteristics and language experiences of preschool DLLs and their families. To fill this need, the Center for Early Care and Education Research-Dual Language Learners (CECER-DLL) Child and Family Questionnaire was developed. This article describes the four-step iterativ…

  • The impact of adaptive computer assisted instruction on reading comprehension

    Open AccessScott Toonder, Brook SawyerARTICLEJournal of Computer Assisted…2021

    Research has demonstrated that computer assisted instruction (CAI) can have positive impacts on various literacy skills, however its impact on specific comprehension skills is currently unclear. This study employed a small‐scale randomized control trial to examine the impact of a researcher‐developed adaptive computer assisted instructional program, Digital Comprehension, on 47 upper elementary struggling readers' comprehension skills, specifical…

  • Social Networks of Children With Developmental Language Disorder in Inclusive Preschool Programs

    Open AccessJing Chen, Laura M Justice et al.ARTICLEChild Development2020

    This study takes an ecological approach to examine how children with developmental language disorder (DLD) interact with their classmates within early childhood special education (ECSE) inclusive classrooms. Participants were 124 children with DLD, 56 children with other disabilities, and 247 typically developing children (Mage = 52.42 months, SD = 6.27) from 56 ECSE inclusive classrooms. Results of social network analysis showed that children wi…

  • Exploring the mechanism through which peer effects operate in preschool classrooms to influence language growth

    Open AccessJing Chen, Laura M Justice et al.ARTICLEEarly Childhood Research Quarterly2020Cited by: 8References: 6

  • Preschool teachers’ language and literacy practices with dual language learners

    Brook Sawyer, Carol Scheffner Hammer et al.ARTICLEBilingual Research Journal2016Cited by: 2References: 18

    The purposes of this study were to (a) examine the degree to which teachers used linguistically responsive practices to support the language and literacy development of Spanish-speaking Dual Language Learners (DLL) and (b) to investigate the associations between these practices and select teacher-level factors. The sample consisted of 72 preschool teachers. Observational data were collected on practices. Teachers self-reported on language and cul…

  • Influences on the congruence between parents’ and teachers’ ratings of young children's social skills and problem behaviors

    Open AccessLaurie A Dinnebeil, Brook Sawyer et al.ARTICLEEarly Childhood Research Quarterly2012Cited by: 2References: 3

  • Exploring factors related to preschool teachers’ self-efficacy

    Open AccessYing Guo, Guo Ying et al.ARTICLETeaching and Teacher Education2011Cited by: 20References: 5