Marilyn Jager Adams (born December 14, 1948) is a specialist in
cognition
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and
education
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. She holds the position of Visiting Scholar at
Brown University
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.
Biography
Adams received a
Ph.D.
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from
Brown University
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in
cognitive psychology
Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and reasoning.
Cognitive psychology originated in the 1960s in a break from behaviorism, which ...
and
developmental psychology
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in 1975.
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Career
She has been on the Planning or Steering Committee for
National Assessment of Educational Progress
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is the largest continuing and nationally representative assessment of what U.S. students know and can do in various subjects. NAEP is a congressionally mandated project administered by the ...
(NAEP) Reading Assessment since 1992.
Adams was Senior Author of the Kindergarten and Grade 1 levels of
Open Court Publishing Company
The Open Court Publishing Company is a publisher with offices in Chicago and LaSalle, Illinois. It is part of the Carus Publishing Company of Peru, Illinois.
History
Open Court was founded in 1887 by Edward C. Hegeler of the Matthiessen-Hegel ...
's 1995 reading and writing program, "Collections for Young Scholars", which focused on better classroom reading programs within the
Reading First Reading First is a federal education program in the United States mandated under the No Child Left Behind Act and administered by the federal Department of Education. The program requires that schools funded by Reading First use "scientifically bas ...
component of the
No Child Left Behind Act
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.
Adams served as Literacy Advisor for "
Sesame Street
''Sesame Street'' is an American educational children's television series that combines live-action, sketch comedy, animation and puppetry. It is produced by Sesame Workshop (known as the Children's Television Workshop until June 2000) a ...
" and Senior Advisor for Instruction for
PBS
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's "
Between the Lions
''Between the Lions'' is an American animated/live-action/puppet children's television series designed to promote reading. The show was a co-production between WGBH in Boston and Sirius Thinking, Ltd., in New York City, in association with Mis ...
" since its inception. She is currently a Visiting
Professor
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in the Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences Department at
Brown University
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and Chief Scientist at Soliloquy Learning, a
software
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At the lowest programming level, executable code consists ...
company which she co-founded in 2000.
Honors
She is the recipient of the American Educational Research Association's
Sylvia Scribner
Sylvia Scribner (1923 – July 20, 1991) was an American psychologist and educational researcher who focused on the role of culture in literacy and learning. Her parents were Gussie and Harry Cohen, and Sylvia Scribner also had a sister, Shirley.
...
Award for outstanding research.
References
1. Adams, M. J. (1990). Beginning to Read: Thinking and Learning about Print.
Cambridge, MA
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The MIT Press
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History
The MIT Press traces its origins back to 1926 when MIT publish ...
.
2. Adams, M. J., Foorman, B. R., Lundberg, I., & Beeler, T. (1998). Phonemic Awareness in Young Children: A Classroom Curriculum.
Baltimore
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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.
National Reading Panel
The National Reading Panel (NRP) was a United States government body. Formed in 1997 at the request of Congress, it was a national panel with the stated aim of assessing the effectiveness of different approaches used to teach children to read. ...
(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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National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
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.
6. National Research Council. (1998). Preventing reading difficulties in young children.
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: National Academy Press.
7. http://products.brookespublishing.com/ABC-Foundations-for-Young-Children-P637.aspx
External links
Interview with Marilyn Jager Adamson thinking and learning about beginning to read (2004)
for ''System 44''
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American women psychologists
1948 births
Living people
Brown University alumni
21st-century American women