Section Links

• Research Biography
• Degrees
• Key Professional Appointments
• Activities & Honors
• Grants
• Selected Publications
• Selected Links

Research Biography

Degrees

• Ed.D., Educational Psychology, Harvard University, 1960
• A.M.T., Social Science Education, Harvard University, 1957
• A.B.,cum laude, American History, Harvard University, 1956

Key Professional Appointments

• Honorary Professor, Department of Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2006-----
• Professor, School of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, 2003-----
• President, China Children's Books, 2002-----
• Director, Center for the Study of Reading, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1976-----
• Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1967-----
• Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1967-----

Activities & Honors

• Fellow, Society for Text and Discourse, 2009- present
• Inaugural Fellow, American Educational Research Association, 2009- present
• Sylvia Scribner Award, American Educational Research Association, 2006
• Distinguished Career Teaching Award, College of Education, 2002
• Outstanding Mentor Award, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001
• Edward L. Thorndike Award, American Psychological Association, 1997
• Distinguished Research Award, American Educational Research Association, 1994
• William S.Gray Citation of Merit, International Reading Association, 1992
• University Scholar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1988
• Oscar Causey Award, National Reading Conference, 1987
• President, American Educational Research Association, 1984
• Fellow, National Academy of Education, 1979- present

Grants

• Principal Investigator, Mindful Instruction of Nonmainstream Children, Institute of Education Sciences, 2008
• Principal Investigator, Improving Comprehension and Writing through Reasoned Argumentation, U.S. Department of Education, 2004

Selected Publications

• Wu, X., Anderson, R. C., Li, W., Wu, X., Li, H., Zhang, J., Zheng, Q., Zhu, J., Shu, H., Jiang, W., Chen, X., Wang, Q., Yin, L., He, Y., Packard, J., & Gaffney, J. S., (2009). Morphological awareness and Chinese children’s literacy development: An intervention study. Scientific Studies of Reading, 13,26-52.
• Reznitskaya, A., Kuo, L.-J., Clark, A.-M., Miller, B., Jadallah, M., & Anderson, R. C. (2009). Role of dialogue in the development of skills of argument: Theory, pedagogy, research. Cambridge Journal of Education, 39, 29-48. 
• Kuo, L. J., & Anderson, R. C. (2008). Conceptual and methodological issues in comparing metalinguistic awareness across languages. In K. Koda & A. Zehler (Eds.), Learning to Read across Languages (pp. 39-67). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
• Dong, T., Anderson, R. C., Kim, I., & Li, Y. (2008). Collaborative Reasoning in China and Korea. Reading Research Quarterly, 43, 400-424.
• Kim, I., Anderson, R. C., Nguyen-Jahiel, K., & Archodidou, A. (2007). Discourse patterns during children’s collaborative online discussions. The Journal of the Learning Sciences, 16, 333-370.

Selected Links

• Center for the Study of Reading