Beverly E. Cox

Associate Professor
Literacy & Language Program
Department of Curriculum and Instruction

Research

Research interests include redefining literacy assessment in order to more clearly understand what is effective literacy instruction for varied learners; intergrating quantitative and qualitative designs to improve our understanding of quality literacy teaching and literacy learning, their assessment and documentation; exploring relationships between literacy achievement and developing expertise in using genre and register in writing with young children, older elementary students, and middle school students; exploring how technology can enhance student learning of literacy and content area material.

Education

Ph.D.	Northwestern University, 1987, (Literacy) Teaching and Learning Processes
M.Ed.	University of Rochester, 1974, Foundations of Education
A.B.	University of Michigan-Dearborn, 1968, Highest Distinction Literature, Sciences, and Arts

Selected Publications

• Cox, B. E., Fang, Z., & Otto, B (1997). Preschoolers’ developing ownership of the literate register. Reading Research Quarterly, 32, 34-53.
• Cox, B. E., Fang, Z., & Schmitt, M. C. (1998).  At-risk children’s metacognitive growth during the Reading Recovery experience: A Vygotskian interpretation. Literacy Teaching and Learning: An International Journal of Early Reading and Writing 3(1), 55-76.
• Cox, B. E. (2004). Young children’s regulatory talk: Evidence of emerging metacognitive control over literary products and processes. In R. B. Ruddell & N. J. Unrau  (Eds.), Theoretical models and processes of reading (5th ed.) [CD]. Newark, De: International Reading Association.
• Cox, B. E., & Hopkins, C. J. (2006). Building on theoretical principles glean ed from Reading Recovery to inform classroom practice. Reading Research Quarterly, 41, 254-267.
• Fang, Z., Schleppegrell, M. J., & Cox, B. E. (2007). Understanding the language demands of schooling: Nouns in academic registers. Journal of Literacy Research, 38(3), 247-263.
  
  

Courses Taught

EDCI 362	Literacy in the Elementary School I
EDCI 500	Foundations of Literacy
EDCI 501	Problems in Literacy Acquisition: Evaluation and Instruction
EDCI 502	Reading in Middle and Secondary Schools (Advanced Level)
EDCI 614	Emerging and Developing Literacy

Professional Experience

1993-Present	Associate Professor Department of Curriculum and Instruction College of Education, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
1987-1993	Assistant Professor Department of Curriculum and Instruction College of Education, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
1986-1987	Part-time Instuctor Northeastern University, Chicago, IL
1986-1987	Part-time Instructor National College of Education, Evanston, IL
1985-1986	Part-time Instructor Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
1982	Teaching Assistant Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
1982-1985	Curriculum Writer and Project Facilitator Collaboration to Improve reading in the Content Areas (CIRCA) Center for the Study of Reading Chicago School Board and University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
1981-1987	Part-Time Instructor Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL