Jitendra presents at PCRC
Educational Psychology professor Asha Jitendra presented at the Pacific Coast Research Conference (PCRC) in Coronado, CA, in February. She co-authored a poster with M. Gajria (Professor, St. Thomas Aquinas College, NY) and C. Burgess (doctoral candidate, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA), entitled "Is cognitive strategy instruction for teaching expository text comprehension an evidence-based practice?" She also participated in a panel session on "The effects of schema-based instruction on seventh graders' learning of ratios, proportions, and percents," with J.R. Starr (Harvard University).