FREE Division 15 Webinar

In this webinar, we facilitate a conversation with Dr. Alexander and Dr. McNamara regarding the landscape of publishing in the next decade. The discussion will be wide-ranging.  Topics will include (a) the importance of new publishing practices; (b) advice for scholars in the 21st century; and (c) how journal editors and reviewers can address diversity, equity, and inclusion. The webinar will also include audience participation in the form of live Zoom polls. We will conclude with additional questions from the audience. If you have questions you would like included in the fireside chat itself, please submit them to [email protected] by Monday, March 8th.

Dr. Patricia Alexander is an APA Division 15 Past President and a Distinguished University Professor, the Jean Mullan Professor of Literacy, and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher in the Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology at the University of Maryland. In her over 300 publications and 400 presentations, she has examined how students learn, what they believe, and how their motivation influences the learning process. In addition to serving on 14 editorial boards, she has served as the associate editor of American Educational Research Journal-Teaching, Learning, and Human Development and is presently the senior editor of Contemporary Educational Psychology.  In 2020 she was elected to the National Academy of Education.  She was also awarded the Sylvia Scribner Award for Division C of the American Educational Research Association, and the Edward Lee Thorndike Award for Career Achievement in Educational Psychology from the American Psychological Association and Oscar Causey Career Contributions from the Literacy Research Association.

Dr. Danielle McNamara is Professor of Psychology and the director of the Science of Learning and Educational Technology (SoLET) laboratory at Arizona State University, which conducts research to better understand cognition and learning, with a particular focus on reading comprehension and writing processes. She is the founding editor of the new open-access journal Technology, Mind, and Behavior, which is published by the American Psychological Association.  Dr. McNamara has also been Associate Editor for five other journals including Journal of Educational Psychology and the Journal of Learning and Instruction. Her numerous contributions to the study of discourse processing and text analysis were recently recognized by the Society for Text & Discourse with the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award. She is also a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Society for Text and Discourse.