Research

3 kids of various ethnicities reading books.
  1. Scott, J.A., Miller, T.F., Flinspach, S.L. (2012) Developing Word Consciousness: Lessons from a Highly Diverse Fourth-Grade. In Kame’enui, E. and Baumann,J. Vocabulary Instruction: Research to Practice . The Guilford Press, NY.
  2. Flinspach., S.L., Scott, J.A., Miller, T.F., Samway, K.D., & Vevea, J.L. (under review). Looking at cognates – What’s importante y necessario in instruction.
  3.  Michelony, A.(2011) Predicting Clicks in a Vocabulary Learning System. In the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL-HLT 2011 Student Session), June 19-24, Portland, OR, USA.
  4. Flinspach, S.L., Scott, J.A., & Vevea, J.L. (2010). Rare words 59th NRC Yearbook. In R. Jimenez, V. Risko, M. Hundley, & D. Rowe (Eds.), 59th Yearbook of the National Reading Conference (pp. 187-200).  Oak Creek, WI: National Reading Conference.
  5. Miller, T.F., Gage-Serio, O., & Scott, J.A. (2010). Word consciousness in practice: illustrations from a fourth-grade teacher’s classroom. In R. Jimenez, V. Risko, M. Hundley, & D. Rowe (Eds.), 59th Yearbook of the National Reading Conference (pp. 187-200).  Oak Creek, WI: National Reading Conference.
  6. Intro to VINE NRC 2009 Symposium
  7. Scott, J.A., Flinspach, S.L., Miller, T.F., Gage-Serio, O., Vevea, J.L. (2009). An analysis of reclassified English learners, English learners, and native English fourth graders on assessments of receptive and productive vocabulary. In K.M. Leander, D.W. Rowe, D.K. Dickinson, M.K. Hundley, R.T. Jimenez, V.J. Risko (Eds.), 58th Yearbook of the National Reading Conference (pp. 312-329). Oak Creek, WI: National Reading Conference.
  8. Scott, J.A., Nagy, W.E. (2009). Developing word consciousness. Reprinted in M. Graves (Eds.), Essential readings on vocabulary instruction (pp.106-117). Newark, DE: International Reading Association.
  9. Scott, J.A., Hoover, M., Flinspach, S.L. & Vevea, J.L. (2008). A multiple-level vocabulary assessment tool: Measuring word knowledge based on grade level materials. In Kim, Y., Risko, V.J., Compton, D.L., Dickinson, D.K., Hundles, M.K., Jimenes, R.T., Leandor, K.M. & Rowe, D.W. (Eds.), 57th Annual Yearbook of the National Reading Conference.
  10. Scott, J.A., Nagy, W.E., & Flinspach, S.L. (2008). More than merely words – Redefining vocabulary learning in a culturally and linguistically diverse society. In A. Farstrup & J. Samuels (Eds.). What Research Has to Say About Vocabulary Instruction. (pp. 182-210) Newark, DE: International Reading Association.
  11. Scott, J.A., Lubliner, S. & Hiebert, E.H. (2006). Constructs underlying word selection and assessments tasks in the archival research on vocabulary instruction. In C.M. Fairbanks, J. Worthy, B. Maloch, J. Hoffman, & D. Schallert (Eds.) 55th Yearbook of of the National Reading Conference. (264-275). National Reading Conference. Oak Creek, WI: National Reading Conference.
  12. Scott, J.A. (2004). Scaffolding Vocabulary Learning.  In D. Lapp, C. C. Block, E.J. Cooper, J. Flood, N. Roser, & J. V. Tinajero (Eds.), Teaching All the Children (pp. 275-293). New York, NY: The Guilford Press.
  13. Scott, J.A., & Nagy, W.E. (1997). Understanding definitions of unfamiliar verbs. Reading Research Quarterly, 32(2), 184-200.
  14. Nagy, W.E., Anderson, R.C., Schommer, M., Scott, J.A., Stallman, A. (1989). Morphological families in the internal lexicon. Reading Research Quarterly, 24(3), 262-281.

More Research

These VASE assessments were presented at various conferences.

  • Scott, J., Flinspach, S. & Vevea, J.  (2013).  Vocabulary Assessment Study in Education (VASE): Using Multidimensional Testlets to Provide Diagnostic and Summative Assessments of Vocabulary Growth in Grades 4 and 5.  Developed for Assessment Showcase at the annual IES Principal Investigator Meeting.  National Center for Educational Research/Institute of Education Sciences Conference. Washington, D.C.
  • Vevea, J, Scott, J.A., & Flinspach, S.L. (2012) Measuring depth of vocabulary knowledge with testlets: Simultaneously assessing six aspects of word knowledge. Paper presented at the annual
    meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Vancouver, B.C., Canada
  • Scott, J., Flinspach, S. & Vevea, J.  (2012). …where no elementary vocabulary test developer has gone before: Breaking New Ground in Test Development.  In Invited Symposium:  How do you measure that? Lessons Learned from Goal 5 Projects.  At the annual IES Principal Investigator Meeting.  National Center for Educational Research/Institute of Education Sciences Conference. Washington, D.C.