Donald J Leu

Biographic Data

ID4640809
NAMEDonald J Leu
GIVEN NAMESDonald J
FAMILY NAMELeu
SIGNATURELEU D J
AFFILIATIONSDepartments of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Psychology University of Connecticut Storrs Connecticut USA
ORCID0000-0002-9269-653X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS32
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1982
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Two's Company: How Academic Diversity in Dyads Enhances Divergent Thinking

    Open AccessXiaochen Liu, Gregory T Boldt et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Creative Behavior2025References: 90

    Group diversity is an active topic in research as studies examine how differences in background, culture, job position, gender, and ethnicity can all impact group creativity. One relatively overlooked component is how diversity in academic knowledge affects group and individual creativity. In this study, 56 graduate students from a research university in the United States were paired into a dyad with another academically similar or diverse studen…

  • Online Research and Comprehension Performance Profiles Among Sixth‐Grade Students, Including Those with Reading Difficulties and/or Attention and Executive Function Difficulties

    Open AccessLaura Kanniainen, Carita Kiili et al.ARTICLEReading Research Quarterly2022References: 98

    This study identified online research and comprehension (ORC) performance profiles of 436 sixth‐grade students (206 girls) aged 12–13 years. We included learner groups with different learning‐related difficulties and explored how students’ reading habits were represented in various performance profiles. First, students’ ORC performance was examined with a validated web‐based assessment measuring their skills in locating, evaluating, synthesizing,…

  • New Literacies of Online Research and Comprehension

    Open AccessDonald J Leu, Carita Kiili et al.CHAPTEREncyclopedia of Applied Linguistics2021

    This entry explores the question of how to conceptualize literacy as a deictic concept, one that continually changes as new technologies for literacy and learning emerge. It suggests a dual‐level conceptualization of theory: a New Literacies theory as an overarching theory that encompasses perspectives and findings from the many studies of literacy, which are referred to as new literacies theories, using lower case. It then focuses special attent…

  • Characteristics and Validity of an Instrument for Assessing Motivations for Online Reading to Learn

    Open AccessElena Forzani, Donald J Leu et al.ARTICLEReading Research Quarterly2021Cited by: 1References: 55

    Motivation for reading is important to comprehension and has been studied extensively in offline reading contexts. However, little is known about the role of motivation in online reading, a new and increasingly important context for reading, largely because of a lack of valid and reliable instruments to estimate a student’s motivation for online reading. The authors report on the development of the Motivations for Online Reading Questionnaire (MO…

  • The New Literacies of Online Research and Comprehension: Rethinking the Reading Achievement Gap

    Open AccessDonald J Leu, Elena Forzani et al.ARTICLEReading Research Quarterly2015Cited by: 21References: 50

    Is there an achievement gap for online reading ability based on income inequality that is separate from the achievement gap in traditional, offline reading? This possibility was examined between students in two pseudonymous school districts: West Town (economically advantaged) and East Town (economically challenged; N = 256). Performance‐based assessments were used within a simulation of the Internet developed as part of a larger project. Seventh…

  • New Literacies of Online Reading Comprehension

    Open AccessDonald J Leu, Heidi Everett‐Cacopardo et al.CHAPTEREncyclopedia of Applied Linguistics2012

    Literacy has become deictic (Leu, 2000); the meaning of literacy is rapidly changing as new technologies for literacy continually appear and new social practices of literacy quickly emerge.

  • The New Literacies of Online Reading Comprehension: Expanding the Literacy and Learning Curriculum

    Open AccessDonald J Leu, J Gregory McVerry et al.ARTICLEJournal of Adolescent & Adult…2011

    This commentary explores a central issue for our times, online reading comprehension. It first defines three issues that have largely gone unnoticed as the Internet enters our classrooms: 1) literacy has become deictic; 2) effective online information use requires additional online reading comprehension practices, skills, and dispositions; and 3) misalignments in public policy, assessment, and instruction impede our ability to prepare students fo…

  • The Convergence of Literacy Instruction With Networked Technologies for Information and Communication

    Open AccessDonald J Leu, Charles K KinzerARTICLEReading Research Quarterly2000Cited by: 10References: 19

    S The convergence of literacy instruction with networked technologies for information and communication This article describes the convergence of literacy instruction with the Internet and other networked technologies for information and communication. It also explores the consequences of this convergence including the fundamental changes taking place in the nature of literacy and literacy instruction. We suggest that three forces appear to be ca…

  • Oral Reading Error Analysis: A Response to Page

    Donald J LeuARTICLEReading Research Quarterly1983

  • Oral Reading Error Analysis: A Critical Review of Research and Application

    Donald J LeuARTICLEReading Research Quarterly1982

    ORAL READING error analysis contains the potential for generating important clues to our understanding of the reading process but this potential is currently unrealized. In a historical overview of this investigative approach, three problems that plagued early oral reading error studies are evident: 1) the lack of a clearly articulated theoretical framework, 2) an inadequate sensitivity to important methodological issues, and 3) a failure to adeq…