Scholarship

  • PROJECTS

    ⦿Writing Architect project - Lab Coordinator. Michigan State University, PI: Dr. Adrea Truckenmiller

  • PUBLICATIONS

    Moura, P. (2024). Best Practices and Resources in Reading Comprehension for Multilingual Learners. Michigan Reading Journal. 56(3), 15-23. https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/mrj/vol56/iss3/7

    Moura, P. (2025). Humanizing school experiences for multilingual learners with dis/abilities [Review of the book Teaching emergent bilingual students with dis/abilities: humanizing pedagogies to engage learners and eliminate labels by P. Martínez-Álvarez]. Teachers College Press. 

    Truckenmiller, A. J., Sarmiento, C. M., Valentine, K. A., Johnson, L., Cho, E., Troia, G. A., Bourgeois, S., Friedman, E., Hennenfent, L., Bachmann, J., Moura-LaMer, P. & Perreault, M. (pre-registration). Adapting Writing Instruction to Students’ Development: A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Writing Architect. https://osf.io/5nszj

    Valentine, K., Friedman, E., Bachmann, J., & Moura, P. (2024). Educators as experts to promote equity for neurodiverse students. Literacy Today, 42(1), 10–11.

  • CONFERENCES

    Johnson, L. J.; Truckenmiller, A. J.; Sarmiento, C. M.; Hennenfert, L.; Valentine, K. A.; Moura, P.; Troia, G.A. (April, 2025). Addressing bias in writing assessments: A QuantCrit exploration of a culturally responsive modified scoring approach [Paper presentation]. AERA 2025 Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, USA.

    Johnson, L. J.; Truckenmiller, A. J.; Sarmiento, C. M.; Valentine, K. A.; Hennenfent, L.; Friedman, E.; Bachmann, J.; & Moura, P. (July, 2024). Constructs for benchmark writing assessment shared with reading in late elementary grades. In E. Lembke (chair), Recent Innovations in Writing Research. Symposium proposed to the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading. Copenhagen, Denmark.

    Seymour, T. M.; Pittman, R. T.; Binks-Cantrell, E.; Rooze, M.; Moura, P.; & Joshi, R. M. (2025, March 12–15). Examining spelling in universal dyslexia screeners [Poster presentation]. CEC Special Education Convention & Expo, Baltimore, MD, USA.