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Professor Pamela Snow

@pamelasnow.bsky.social

La Trobe University Distinguished Professor (Cognitive Psychology) & Co-Director, Science of Language and Reading (SOLAR) Lab, School of Education, La Trobe University, Australia. The Snow Report: pamelasnow.blogspot.com.au

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Professor Pamela Snow@pamelasnow.bsky.social · last yr.

It’s not enough to say that #NAPLAN data isn’t getting worse over time. It should be improving (it’s not) and we should be closing equity gaps (we’re not). This is our #OpenAccess response to a 2024 paper by Dr Sally Larsen (Uni of New England). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

National and International Monitoring of Student Literacy and Numeracy Attainment: The Case for Rigorous Macro and Micro Analysis

In her 2024 paper Are Australian students' academic skills declining? Interrogating 25 years of national and international standardised assessment data, Larsen compiled an impressive summary of major...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Professor Pamela Snow@pamelasnow.bsky.social · last yr.

It’s not enough that #NAPLAN data is not worsening over time. It should be improving and we should be closing gaps for equity groups. This open access paper is our response to a 2024 paper by Dr Sally Larsen claiming “nothing to see here”. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

National and International Monitoring of Student Literacy and Numeracy Attainment: The Case for Rigorous Macro and Micro Analysis

In her 2024 paper Are Australian students' academic skills declining? Interrogating 25 years of national and international standardised assessment data, Larsen compiled an impressive summary of major...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Professor Pamela Snow@pamelasnow.bsky.social · last yr.

On July 23 we’ll again start our popular La Trobe online Intro to the Science of Language & Reading 4-week short course. This is fully flexible and discounts apply for schools enrolling 10 or more staff (or all staff in the case of very small schools). shortcourses.latrobe.edu.au/the-science-...

The Science of Language and Reading - An Introduction

This specialised course covers the linguistic basis of early reading as this applies to word decoding and language comprehension.

shortcourses.latrobe.edu.au

Tanya Anne@tserry2504.bsky.social · last yr.

Our new paper on parents of early years students’ experiences of remote learning, (specifically reading instruction), during COVID is available and open access. doi.org/10.1177/0004... With @lisamareet.bsky.social @pamelasnow.bsky.social @tessaweadman @caitlinstephenson

Parents’ views and experiences of literacy instruction provided during the COVID-19 remote learning period - Tanya Serry, Lisa Furlong, Pamela Snow, Tessa Weadman, Caitlin Stephenson, 2025

Remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic provided a unique opportunity for parents of early years students to gain insights into instructional methods used ...

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Zack Barnes@zbarnes.bsky.social · last yr.

“Results suggest that the impact of Reading Recovery on students’ ELA test scores in 3rd/4th grades is statistically sig & negative; students who participated in RR in 1st had 3rd/4th test scores that were about one-half to one full grade level below similar students who did not participate in RR”

Darin Flynn@phono-logical.bsky.social · last yr.

“Long-term impacts of Reading Recovery through 3rd and 4th Grade: a regression discontinuity study” by Henry May, Aly Blakeney, Pragya Shrestha, Mia Mazal and Nicole Kennedy (May ’23) doi.org/10.1080/1934... www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A0A...

Nichola Shelton@nichola-slp.bsky.social · last yr.

Open access paper on 246 Swedish adolescents with #DevLangDis and their caregivers: Predictors of academic achievement and educational support for adolescents with developmental language disorder (DLD) #SLPeeps doi.org/10.1177/0265...

Predictors of academic achievement and educational support for adolescents with developmental language disorder (DLD) - Olof Sandgren, Birgitta Sahlén, Christina Samuelsson, Anna Ekström, 2025

Purpose Developmental language disorder (DLD) has known consequences on academic performance, and adaptations to teaching methods and material are often require...

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Saganism@sagan.bsky.social · last yr.

Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.