Current PIRT Fellows (continued)
Rebecca Mazzullo
Rebecca is a first year PIRT fellow in Clinical Psychology. Rebecca's broad research interests include internalizing and externalizing behavior problems and emergent literacy skills, temperament, childhood aggression, peer relationships, and academic achievement and school dropout.
Publications:
Ashare, R.L., Hawk Jr., L. W., Mazzullo, R. J. (2007). Motivated attention: Incentive effects on attentional modification of prepulse inhibition. Psychophysiology, 44, 839-845.
Shiels, K.,Hawk Jr., L.W., Reynolds, B., Mazzullo, R. J., Rhodes, J., Pelham Jr., W. E., Waxmonsky, J. G., and Gangloff, B. P. (2009). Effects of Methylphenidate on Discounting of Delayed Rewards in Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 17 (5), 291-301.
Derek Pasisz
Derek is a 4th year PIRT fellow in Developmental Psychology. Derek's research interests include understanding the development of reading comprehension, behavioral genetic influences on academic achievement, and specific environmental influences on academic achievement. In addition, Derek is interested in the design and application of research and statistical methods.
Publications:
Pasisz, D. J., & Schatschneider, C. (2010). Genetic and environmental influences on reading comprehension ability: A research synthesis. Manuscript submitted for publication.
Pasisz, D. J., & Hurtz, G. M. (2009). Testing for between-group differences in within-group interrater agreement. Organizational Research Methods, 13, 590-613.
Pasisz, D. J., & Roehrig, A. D. (2009). Reading coach roles and their relation to student reading achievement. Manuscript submitted for publication.
Jamie Quinn
Jamie is a 1st year PIRT fellow in Developmental Psychology. Her research interests include response-to-intervention techniques for children with reading problems and reading comprehension in children. She has recently become interested in Child X Instruction interactions and the role of phonological skills related to reading normality and abnormality.
Anabelle Reta Sánchez
A native of Mexico, Anabelle is in her 2nd year as a PIRT Fellow and is working on her Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies with an emphasis in International Development Education. Anabelle is interested in the relation between teacher training, bilingual education and the quality of education provided to disadvantaged populations such as rural, poor, immigrant and indigenous populations both in the United States as well as in Latin America.
She has worked on the Principal PROMiSE Professional Development Study as well as the Mathematics (K-3) Formative Assessment Project under the tutelage of Dr. Laura B. Lang.
Presentations:
Reta Sánchez, A., Rew, W.J., Luschei, T., Lang, L.B., Ramos-Matoussi, F. (2011, January). Teacher and School Correlates of Moonlighting: A Multilevel Study of Teachers in Brazil. Paper to be presented at the Ninth Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education, Honolulu, HI
Reta Sánchez, A., Sakon, F. (2010, November). Differential Item Functioning for Minority Principals on a Math Content Knowledge Test. Poster to be presented at the 55th Annual Florida Educational Research Association, Orlando, FL
Reta Sánchez, A., Lang, L.B. (2010, June). Elementary School Principals Mathematics Content Knowledge and Demographic Data: Insight into Professional Development Efforts. Poster presented at the Fifth Annual Research Conference of the Institute of Education Sciences, National Harbor, MD
Reta, A. (2010, March). Quality of education for indigenous children in Mexico and Ecuador: Comparative analysis of teacher training. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society, Chicago, IL
Reta, A., Luschei, T. (2009, March). New York City’s conditional cash transfer program and its basis on Mexico’s Oportunidades. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society, Charleston, SC
Reta, A. (2009, April). Quality of teachers in rural Mexico: Recruitment, training and retention of teachers. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Latin American Scholars, New York, NY
Reta, A. (2009, March). Quality of teachers in rural Mexico: Recruitment, training and retention of teachers. Poster presented at the Marvalene Hughes Research in Education Conference, Tallahassee, FL
Fred Sakon
Fred’s current interests include refining the components of developmental mathematics to address questions toward more effective teaching and learning of mathematics in K-12 schools; examining the effects of professional development interventions on teacher content knowledge and student achievement in mathematics; and developing early childhood assessments in mathematics to enable tracking of students' progression in learning. He also enjoys investigating historical works of mathematicians to uncover alternate methods for teaching mathematics content.
Currently, Fred is working on a meta-analysis of primarily experimental professional development interventions in mathematics, and he is assisting with the Principal PROMiSE professional development study.
Presentations:
Kolbe, T., Felix, J., Gao, N., Harris, R., Hughes, M., Oakley, C., Park, J., Sakon, F., Stewart, G, & Vineyard, B. (2009, February). Unpacking the costs: A cost-effectiveness study of early reading interventions. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southeast Evaluation Association, Tallahassee, FL.
Lang, L. H. & Sakon, F. (2009, October). Depth of knowledge. Presentation on behalf of FCR-STEM at the Leadership of Mathematics and Science: Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment statewide conference, Jacksonville, FL.
Publications:
Sakon, F. (2009). Digging up roots and paving the way toward calculus. Dimensions in Mathematics, 29(1), 35 – 39.
