Marilyn Jager Adams (born December 14, 1948) is a specialist in

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and

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. She holds the position of Visiting Scholar at

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Biography

Adams received a

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from

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and

developmental psychology Developmental psychology is the science, scientific study of how and why humans grow, change, and adapt across the course of their lives. Originally concerned with infants and children, the field has expanded to include adolescence, adult deve ...

in 1975.Marilyn Adams C.V

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Career

She has been on the Planning or Steering Committee for

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(NAEP) Reading Assessment since 1992. Adams was Senior Author of the Kindergarten and Grade 1 levels of

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's 1995 reading and writing program, "Collections for Young Scholars", which focused on better classroom reading programs within the

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component of the

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. Adams served as Literacy Advisor for "

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" and Senior Advisor for Instruction for

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's "

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" since its inception. She is currently a Visiting

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in the Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences Department at

and Chief Scientist at Soliloquy Learning, a

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company which she co-founded in 2000.

Honors

She is the recipient of the American Educational Research Association's

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Award for outstanding research.

References

1. Adams, M. J. (1990). Beginning to Read: Thinking and Learning about Print.

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. 2. Adams, M. J., Foorman, B. R., Lundberg, I., & Beeler, T. (1998). Phonemic Awareness in Young Children: A Classroom Curriculum.

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: Paul H. Brookes. 3. http://products.brookespublishing.com/ABC-Foundations-for-Young-Children-P637.aspx 3. Foorman, B.R., Francis, D.J., Fletcher, J.M., Schatschneider, C., and Mehta, P. (1998). The role of instruction in learning to read: Preventing reading failure in at-risk children. Journal of Educational Psychology, 90, 37-55. 4. McDaniel, J.E., Sims, C.H., & Miskel, C.G. (2001). The National Reading Policy Arena: Policy actors and perceived Influence. Educational Policy, 15, 92-114. 5.

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(2000). Teaching children to read: An evidence-based assessment of the scientific research literature on reading and its implications for reading instruction.

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. 6. National Research Council. (1998). Preventing reading difficulties in young children.

: National Academy Press. 7. http://products.brookespublishing.com/ABC-Foundations-for-Young-Children-P637.aspx

External links

Interview with Marilyn Jager Adams
on thinking and learning about beginning to read (2004)

for ''System 44'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Adams, Marilyn Jager American women psychologists 1948 births Living people Brown University alumni 21st-century American women