Research interests
Mary F. Roe is interested in literacy teacher education, and literacy instruction, teaching, and assessment. Her current project involves the concept of differentiation. The purposes of the first year of this study are to understand the literacy instructional practices typical of language arts and social studies teachers, identify teachers’ differentiation of instruction, and pinpoint challenges teachers encounter, especially for underachieving students and second language learners. Based on this information, she will propose a differentiation model and work with teachers to apply it to middle level classrooms.
Teaching/professional interests
Dr. Roe teaches undergraduate and graduate literacy courses. Roe has taught elementary and middle school, and worked as a reading specialist and counselor for 19 years. She is an editorial board member for Research in Middle Level Education, Reading Teacher, Journal of Literacy Research, Reading Research and Instruction, Childhood Education, and Journal of Educational Research.
Recent accomplishments
- Member, board of examiners, National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education
- Member, National Middle School Association’s Research Advisory Board
- Vice president, Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers (2008)
- Bettis, P., & Roe, M. F. (2008). Reading girls: Living literate and powerful lives. Research in Middle Level Education Online, 32(1). Available at http://www.nmsa.org/
- Kelley, J., & Roe, M. F. (2007). Promoting pre-service teachers’ curiosity: Why and How? The Reading Professor, 29(2), 22-31.
- Roe, M. F. (2007). Review: Pledging allegiance - The politics of patriotism in America’s schools. Journal of Educational Research, 101(2), 126-127.
- College of Education Faculty Excellence Award for Service (2007).
- Roe, M. F. (2007). Reading in the elementary grades. In J. Christie, B. Enz, & C. Vukelich (Eds.), Teaching language and literacy: Third edition (pp. 207-237). Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
- Roe, M. F., Vukelich, C., Albertson, B., & Kelley, M. (2005). Partnership of promise: Tackling writing achievement. Journal of Reading Education, 30(2), 14-23.
- Roe, M. F. (2004). Professional learning catalysts: An examination of one teacher’s developing literacy practices. Reading Research and Instruction, 44(1), 32-61.
Educational background
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- Pd.D, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, 1990
- M.Ed., Reading Specialist, Eastern Washington University, 1973
- M.A., Educational Psychology, Michigan State University, 1971
