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linkStack, A., Wijekumar, K., Rice, M., McKeown, D., Gerde, H., Luo, W., Lei, P. (in press). Evidence of the Effects of a Practice-Based Reading Comprehension Professional Development on Teachers’ Knowledge of Reading Comprehension. Journal of Educational Psychology.
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linkRice, M., Wijekumar, K. (Kay), Stack, A., & Lambright, K. (2025). Sustaining teacher knowledge and self-perception of reading comprehension instruction: A year-long study of practice-based professional development. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 82.
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linkWijekumar, K. (2024). The Joy of Reading: Instructional Guide for Transforming Comprehension (P. Sierra & J. (Educator) Garza (Eds.); First edition.). Literacy.IO.
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linkWijekumar, K. (Kay), Lei, P., Rice, M., Beerwinkle, A., Zhang, S., & Meyer, B. J. F. (2024). A web-based intelligent tutoring system for reading comprehension delivered to fifth-grade students attending high-poverty schools: Results from a replication efficacy study. Journal of Educational Psychology, 116(8), 1333–1351.
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linkRice, M., Wijekumar, K. (2024). Inference Skills for Reading: A Meta-Analysis of Instructional Practices. Journal of Educational Psychology, 116(4), 569–589.
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linkRice, M., Wijekumar, K., Lambright, K., Stack A. (2024). Promoting Inference Generation: Using Questioning and Strategy Instruction to Support Upper Elementary Students. Reading Teacher, 78(2), 121–130.
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linkWijekumar, K., Zhang, S., McKeown, D. (2024). Introduction to the Special Issue: Misalignment, Misinterpretation, and Misappropriation of Literacy Research to Practice and Policy
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linkWhat Works Clearinghouse (2020, November 16). What works clearinghouse™ Standards Handbook Version 4.
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linkHudson, A.K., Owens, J.K., Moore, K.A., Lambright, K. & Wijekumar, K. (2021). “What is the Main Idea?”: Using Text Structure as a Framework for Accelerating Strategic Comprehension of Text. Reading Teacher, 75(1), 113.
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linkWijekumar, K., Beerwinkle, A., McKeown, D., Zhang, S., Malatesha Joshi, R. (2019). The “GIST” of the reading comprehension problem in grades 4 and 5
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linkBeerwinkle, A., Wijekumar, K., Walpole, S. & Aguis, R. (2018). An Analysis of the Ecological Components within a Text Structure Intervention, Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal , 31,9: 2041-2064.
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linkJi, Xuejuen, Beerwinkle, A. & Wijekumar, K. (2018). Using Latent Transition Model to Identify Effects of an Intelligent Tutoring System on Reading Comprehension, Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, , 31,9: 2095-2113.
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linkWijekumar, K., Meyer, B.J.F., Lei, P., Hernandez, A., August, D. (2017). Improving content area reading comprehension of Spanish speaking English learners in Grades 4 and 5 using web-based text structure instruction
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linkWijekumar, K., Meyer, B.J.F., Lei, P., Xuejun, J., Joshi, R.M. (2017, April 5). Evidence of an Intelligent Tutoring System as a Mindtool to Promote Strategic Memory of Expository Texts and Comprehension with Children in Grades 4 and 5. Journal of Educational Computing Research. DOI: 10.1177/0735633117696909
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linkWijekumar, K., Meyer, B.J.F., Lei, P., Lin, Y., Johnson, L., Spielvogel, J., Shurmatz, K., Ray, M., Cook, M. (2014). Multisite Randomized Controlled Trial Examining Intelligent Tutoring of Structure Strategy for Fifth-Grade Readers
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linkWijekumar, K., Meyer, B.J.F., Lei, P., (2013). High-fidelity implementation of web-based intelligent tutoring system improves fourth and fifth graders content area reading comprehension
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linkWijekumar, K., Meyer, B.J.F., Lei, P., (2012, June 26). Large-scale randomized controlled trial with 4th graders using intelligent tutoring of the structure strategy to improve nonfiction reading comprehension
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