Judith Scott

Vocabulary knowledge is recognized by reading and education experts as an influential component of reading comprehension. Traditional assessments of vocabulary yield scores indicating choice of correct versus incorrect answers, but do not provide more nuanced information about the student's level of understanding. The VINE (Vocabulary Innovations in Education) assessments were developed with support from an IES grant in 2006 to assess growth of fourth graders' vocabulary knowledge. The curr...

The purpose of this project is to improve student word learning by developing an intelligent computer system that annotates text and provides related pictorial information (i.e., pictures, diagrams). This may benefit all students, but especially those who are struggling, by providing explicit scaffolding for word learning in context through multimedia, multilingual, "in the moment," vocabulary assistance. The system will focus on content areas such as science and social science, which are ...

In this project, the researchers aimed to develop and obtain evidence of the potential impact of a vocabulary intervention focused on academic register to improve the reading and writing achievement of fourth graders. The researchers theorized that, although many factors contribute to the underperformance of low-income students and English language learners, differences in students' knowledge of academic language is a key element in academic achievement.