Sara Jones
Assistant Professor
Honors Program
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Degarmo Hall - DEG 229
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- About
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Biography
Dr. Sara Jones is an Assistant Professor of Elementary Education--Literacy in the School of Teaching and Learning at Illinois State University. Her research focuses on exploring adolescent reading motivation in ways that are more humanizing, responsive, and culturally sustaining.
Current Courses
110.003Cross Cultural Teaching And Learning
205.004Elementary Education Clinical I
208.003Reading and Language Development
222.001Reading Assessment
Teaching Interests & Areas
Literacy methods, critical issues in education, anti-racist/anti-bias teaching, teaching for social justice and equity
Research Interests & Areas
Adolescent reading motivation, Critical Race Theory, mixed methods
PhD Language, Literacy and Culture
Vanderbilt University, Peabody College
Nashville, TN
M.Ed. (Master of Education) Urban and Minority Education
University of Maryland
College Park, MD
BA Elementary Education
Elon University
Elon, NC
Journal Article
Goodwin, A., Petscher, Y., Tock, J., McFadden, S., Reynolds, D., Lantos, T., & Jones, S. Monster, PI: Validation evidence for an assessment of adolescent language that assesses vocabulary knowledge, morphological knowledge, and syntactical awareness. Assessment for Effective Intervention 47.2 (2022): 89--100.
Jones, S. Turning Away from Anti-Blackness: A Critical Review of Adolescent Reading Motivation Research. Reading Research Quarterly (2022)
Goodwin, A., Petscher, Y., Jones, S., McFadden, S., Reynolds, D., & Lantos, T. The monster in the classroom: Assessing language to inform instruction. The Reading Teacher 73.5 (2020): 603--616.
Jones, S. Measuring reading motivation: A cautionary tale. The Reading Teacher 74.1 (2020): 79--89.
Other
Jones, S., & others. REIMAGINING READING MOTIVATION AS A COLLECTIVE, CRITICAL ENDEAVOR: CENTERING THE PERSPECTIVES OF BLACK GIRL READERS (2022)