FCAT Experts

The results of the 2010 Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test will soon be released. Members of the news media reporting these results are invited to contact experts on the topic at The Florida State University. These scholars, listed below, can help place this year’s FCAT results in reading, writing, science and math in fuller context.

READING

Stephanie Al-Otaiba
Associate professor, College of Education; faculty researcher, Florida Center for Reading Research
Telephone: (850) 644-0717
E-Mail: salotaiba@fcrr.org
Web Page: www.coe.fsu.edu/STE/Faculty/faculty_otaiba.html
Expertise: Early literacy; special education; teacher training

Carol Connor
Associate professor, Department of Psychology; research faculty, Florida Center for Reading Research and Florida Center for Research in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
Telephone: (850) 228-7006
E-Mail: cconnor@fcrr.org
Web Page: www.psy.fsu.edu/faculty/connor.dp.html
Expertise: Preschool and elementary reading; content-area and sciences literacy; language and literacy for deaf children; teacher quality

Barbara Foorman
Francis Eppes Professor of Education, College of Education; director, Florida Center for Reading Research
Telephone: (850) 644-0777
E-Mail: bfoorman@fcrr.org
Web Page: www.coe.fsu.edu/STE/Faculty/faculty_foorman.html
Expertise: Reading; assessment; language development

Laura Lang
Director, Learning Systems Institute; associate professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, College of Education
Telephone: (850) 645-1179
E-Mail: llang@fsu.edu
Web Page: www.fsu.edu/~elps/staff/lang.html
Expertise: Middle- and high-school reading; K-12 science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) policy and state planning; K-3 formative assessment (mathematics); K-12 leadership and professional development

WRITING

MATH

Kathy Clark
Assistant professor, College of Education; research faculty, Florida Center for Research in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
Telephone: (850) 644-8497
E-Mail: kclark@fsu.edu
Web Page: www.coe.fsu.edu/ste/Faculty/kclark.html
Expertise: Mathematical knowledge for teaching; use of history of mathematics in teaching; history of mathematics, particularly Florida State’s collection of Babylonian cuneiform tablets and 17th-century mathematics (e.g., logarithms); professional development of teachers; qualitative research methodology

SCIENCE

Sherry Southerland
Professor, School of Teacher Education, College of Education
Telephone: (850) 645-4667
E-Mail: ssoutherland@fsu.edu
Web Page: http://mailer.fsu.edu/~ssouther/
Expertise: Science teaching and learning