• From evaluation to collaborative reflection: Teacher candidate perceptions of a digital learner-centered classroom observation form 

  Flores, Raymond; Krutka, Daniel G.; Cramer, Katherine Mason; Bergman, Daniel J. (Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE), 2014)

  In efforts to promote a more learner-centered approach to supervision, faculty members at a Midwestern US university piloted a new digital classroom observation form. Participants included middle/secondary teacher candidates ...

• Out of the closet and onto the playing field: Two decades of lesbian athletes in young adult literature 

  Cramer, Katherine Mason (National Council of Teachers of English, 2014)

  Using the Identity Formation Model, the author examines the representation of lesbian athletes in young adult literature and suggests that students benefit from reading about characters with a range of sexual and gender identities

• Searching for common ground: Two teachers discuss their support for and concerns about the inclusion of LGBTQ issues in English methods courses 

  Cramer, Katherine Mason; Harrell, Carol (Kansas Association of Teachers of English, 2012)

  The genesis of this article grew out of our shared experiences working with preservice English teachers and our differing perspectives regarding the benefits and challenges of including the study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, ...

• PEER: Project for Encouraging Excellence Review 

  Cramer, Katherine Mason; Giddens, B.; Cebulski, J.; Dabundo, L.; Diop, C.; Hagin, S. (Kennesaw State University Center for Teaching Excellence, 2009)

• A conversation in limbo: An interview with Aaron Levy 

  Cramer, Katherine Mason (Special Interest Group Network on Adolescent Literature, 2007)

• Creating a space for YAL with LGBT content in our personal reading: Creating a place for LGBT students in our classrooms 

  Cramer, Katherine Mason (National Council of Teachers of English, 2008)

  Adolescent literature is a source of both information and validation for today's teenagers. As Adrian Fogelin revealed in her 2006 ALAN address, "Opening Middle School Minds with Young Adult Literature," these texts act ...

• "More like a conversation": Cultivating reflective dialoge with a student-centered observation form 

  Flores, Raymond; Krutka, Daniel G.; Cramer, Katherine Mason; Bergman, Daniel J. (National Association for Professional Development Schools, 2013)

  Supervision of teacher candidates (TCs) in the field is often teacher-centered, anti-dialogical, and focused on the evaluation of TCs (Nolan & Francis, 1992; Coombs et al., 2013). With a teacher-centered approach to ...

• Enhancing student writing through cooperative learning in college composition classrooms 

  Cramer, Katherine Mason (Arizona English Teachers Association, 2005)

  As a former English and reading teacher at Argentine Middle School in Kansas City, Kansas, I anxiously anticipated the start of my teaching experience as a composition instructor at Arizona State University in August 2004. ...

• From preservice teacher to trusted adult: Sexual orientation and gender variance in an online YAL book club 

  Cramer, Katherine Mason (National Council of Teachers of English, 2010)

  Many of the preservice English teachers with whom I work report feeling enthusiastic but unsure about how to make their classrooms safe and inviting for students who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or ...

• Cooperative learning and second language acquisition in first-year composition: Opportunities for authentic communication among English language learners 

  Cramer, Katherine Mason (National Council of Teachers of English, 2006)

  Mason discusses cooperative learning and second language acquisition in first year composition classes. In her ESL first-year composition classroom, cooperative learning takes many forms, including in-class cooperative ...

• Coming of age and coming of GAYge: An interview with emily m. danforth 

  Cramer, Katherine Mason (Special Interest Group Network on Adolescent Literature, 2013)

  When I reviewed the notes I made in my personal reading log in September 2012 after reading emily m. danforth's debut novel The Miseducation of Cameron Post, I had to smile: "Loved this book. The voice of Cameron Post will ...

• Evolving depictions of 'Coming Out' in young adult literature: A range of possibilities in twelve Lambda literary award-winners (1992-2006) 

  Cramer, Katherine Mason (Praeger, 2010)

  This chapter analyzes depictions of protagonists' coming out in 12 Lambda Literary Award Winners (1992-2006) in the young adult literature category. Depictions included coming out to others, coming out to oneself, showing ...

• Using YA literature to interrogate the heteronormative, transphobic culture of school sports 

  Cramer, Katherine Mason (National Council of Teachers of English, 2016)

  Using excerpts from young adult literature (YAL), secondary students will engage in pre-, during-, and after-reading activities to analyze sites in their school typically occupied by student athletes, coaches, and spectators ...

• The T* in LGBT*: Disrupting gender normative school culture through young adult literature 

  Cramer, Katherine Mason; Adams, Jill (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)

  Cramer and Adams demonstrate that the field of young adult literature (YAL) offers opportunities in a variety of genres for teens and teachers alike to learn more about trans* and gender creative identities and/or to have ...

• Clearing paths for transgender identities with middle grades literature 

  Cramer, Katherine Mason (National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), United States, 2018-12)

  The Gay, Lesbian, Straight Educator Network (GLSEN) 2015 National School Climate Survey reveals that transgender middle school students are more likely than their high school peers to face verbal and physical harassment ...

• Reorganization of 9A grammar based on the Morrison theory of unit learnings 

  Westacott, Nellie Emma (Wichita State University, 1931-08)

  Some of the defects of the present organization are: (1) that information gained in the classroom functions little if at all outside the classroom, (2) that the pupils assume a "get by" attitude and consider the performance ...

• A study of the prevailing practice of teaching composition in grades VII, VIII, and IX 

  Tucker, Frances (Wichita State University, 1931-06)

  The purpose of this investigation is to study the prevailing practice of teaching English composition in grades seven, eight, and nine. This study is meant to supplement other studies in the field of English work for ...

• A suggested plan for the reorganization of plane geometry 

  Davis, Adelle (Wichita State University, 1931-05)

• Mental representation of fractions: It all depends on whether they are common or uncommon 

  Liu, Fuchang (SAGE, 2018-09-01)

  This study examined whether common and uncommon fractions are mentally represented differently and whether common ones are used in accessing the magnitudes of uncommon ones. In Experiments 1 and 2, college education majors, ...

• The writing process of published authors and gifted students: a mixed method study regarding comfort with the writing process 

  Courtney, Jordan M. (Wichita State University, 2017-12)

  The purpose of this research was to determine how the writing process of published authors would be accepted and utilized by gifted students. To increase the field of research regarding gifted students, research was completed ...

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