Margo Mastropieri
Ph.D., Arizona State University Professor
Profile:
Margo A. Mastropieri is Professor of Special Education in the Graduate School of Education. She received her Ph.D. in Special Education from Arizona State University in 1983, her M.Ed. and B.A. degrees from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Before coming to George Mason, she worked at Utah State University and Purdue University in Indiana. Prior to working in higher education, Mastropieri was a high school teacher in Massachusetts, an elementary teacher in Arizona, and a Diagnostician at the Mt. Holyoke College Learning Disabilities Center.
Professor Mastropieri is interested in how students with disabilities learn in school and much of her research has focussed on cognitive strategies designed to promote learning and retention of school-related information. She has also studied what happens during inclusive instruction with students with disabilities and suggested instructional strategies to facilitate inclusive efforts. Her publications include over 140 journal articles, 24 book chapters, and 14 co-authored or co-edited books. Book titles include: A Practical Guide for Teaching to Science to Students with Special Needs in Inclusive Settings (Pro-Ed), Teaching Students Ways to Remember: Strategies for Learning Mnemonically (Brookline), and The Inclusive Classroom: Strategies for Effective Teaching (Prentice Hall, 2000).
Mastropieri is the co-editor of Advances in Learning and Behavioral Disabilities (JAI Press), a research annual. She served as co-editor of Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, the journal of the Division for Learning Disabilities of the Council for Exceptional Children from 1991 to 1997. She also serves on the Editorial Boards of a number of professional journals, including Journal of Educational Psychology, Contemporary Educational Psychology, Educational Psychology Review, Exceptional Children, Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, Learning Disability Quarterly, The Teacher Educator, The Journal of Special Education, Remedial and Special Education, Exceptionality, and Behavioral Disorders.
Recent Publications:
Mastropieri, M.A. (in press). Is the glass half-full or half-empty? Challenges for first year special education teachers. Journal of Special Education.
Mastropieri, M.A., Sweda, J., & Scruggs, T.E. (2000). Teacher use
of mnemonic strategy instruction. Learning Disabilities Research &
Practice, 15(2), 69-74.
Mastropieri, M.A., Leinart, A.W., & Scruggs, T.E. (1999). Strategies
to increase reading fluency. Intervention in School and Clinic, 34(5),
278-283-292.
Mastropieri, M.A., Scruggs, T.E., & Magnusen, M. (1999). Activities-oriented
science instruction for students with disabilities. Learning Disability
Quarterly, 22(4), 240-249.
Mastropieri, M.A., Scruggs, T.E., Mantzicopoulos, P.Y., Sturgeon, A., Goodwin, L., & Chung, S. (1998). A place where living and nonliving things affect and depend upon each other: Qualitative and quantitative outcomes associated with inclusive science teaching. Science Education, 82, 163-179.
Mastropieri, M.A., & Scruggs, T.E. (1998). Constructing more meaningful relationships in the classroom: mnemonic research into practice. Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 13(3), 138-145.
Brownell, M.T., & Thomas, C.W. (1998). An interview with Margo Mastropieri: Quality science instruction for students with disabilities. Intervention in School and Clinic, 34(2), 119-122.
Program Affiliations: Special Education
Organizational Affiliations:
Council for Exceptional Children
American Educational Research Association
Research Interests:
Learning and memory of students with disabilities
Strategies for effective inclusive instruction
Favorite Links:
http://www.ldonline.org
http://www.cec.sped.org
http://prenhall.com/mastropieri
Note: this bio was taken from http://cehd.gmu.edu/people/faculty/mmastropieri/
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