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- Danielle S. McNamara is an educational researcher known for her theoretical and empirical work with reading comprehension and the development of game-based literacy technologies. She is Professor of Psychology and Senior Research Scientist at Arizona State University. She has previously held positions at University of Memphis, Old Dominion University, and University of Colorado, Boulder. McNamara has authored and edited five books spanning the topics of reading comprehension, linguistics, educational technologies, and cognition. These include Reading Comprehension Strategies: Theories, Interventions, and Technologies; Automated Evaluation of Text and Discourse with Coh-Metrix with Arthur C. Graesser, Philip M. McCarthy, and Zhiqiang Cai; Handbook of Latent Semantic Analysis with Thomas K. Landauer, Simon Dennis, and Walter Kintsch; Adaptive Educational Technologies for Literacy Instruction with Scott A. Crossley; and Cognition in Education (Ed Psych Insights) with Matthew T. McCrudden. In 2015, McNamara received the Distinguished Cognitive Scientist Award from the University of California, Merced. She was selected by the American Educational Research Association (AERA) as a 2018 AERA Fellow in acknowledgement of her theoretical and research contributions to the field of literacy and learning. McNamara is the founding editor of , an open-access, peer-reviewed journal published by the American Psychological Association (APA). She has also previously served as president of the , and serves on the editorial board of Discourse Processes, a multidisciplinary journal published by Taylor & Francis. (en)
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