I'm an Associate Professor in the Center for Education at Widener University where I teach undergraduate and graduate courses in reading/literacy. My research interests include digital literacy, teacher self efficacy beliefs for literacy instruction, culturally responsive literacy instruction, the role of motivation in literacy learning, supporting pre-service and in-service teachers’ literacy instructional and assessment practices in the 21st century.
Ciampa, K., Reisboard, D., & McHenry, N. (2022). What analysis reveals about teacher educators’ understanding of culturally responsive instruction and translation into practice. The Teacher Educator, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/08878730.2022.2066742
Ciampa, K., & Jagielo-Manion, R. (2021). Teaching and assessing early literacy during COVID-19 and beyond: Key findings. Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 17(2), 1-18.
Ciampa, K., & Gallagher, T. L. (2019). Exploring Canadian and American pre-service teachers’ self-efficacy and knowledge of literacy instruction. Teaching Education. doi:10.1080/10476210.2019.1658925
Zora Wolfe, associate professor and interim director for the Center of Education, Katia Ciampa, associate professor of education, and student Ashley DiRienzo, who works as assistant director of communications for undergraduate admissions, authored this article about how to support first-year doctoral students. The trio share that community building and goal setting are important for doctoral students to thrive.
Widener University is the featured institution for the month of October by Alpha Upsilon Alpha, the honor society for the International Literacy Association. Dana Reisboard, associate professor of education, and Katia Ciampa, associate professor of education, organized a virtual event in which they inducted six Widener students into the organization: Timothy Crowley, Nina Derhagopian, Patrice Hammond, Meagan Hensley, Kristen Peters, and Andrea Rutledge.
A new article authored by Katia Ciampa, associate professor and director of reading programs, Zora Wolfe, associate professor and associate dean of the College of Health & Human Services, and Jessica Storey, director of teaching and learning with technology, has been published in the Journal of Research on Technology in Education.
The article, titled “Faculty perceptions of the impact of professional development on online teaching practices,” examines the success of the trio’s one-year cohort in the Online Teaching Fellows Program at Widener.
The 14-week program included graduate and undergraduate faculty from across the university for professional development activities and discussions focused on creating authentic and equitable learning opportunities for students.
Dr. Katia Ciampa, an assistant professor in the Center for Education, and Dr. Zora Wolfe, an associate professor in the Center for Education, published a peer-reviewed article in "Teaching in Higher Education" in September 2020. The article, titled "From isolation to collaboration: creating an intentional community of practice within the doctoral dissertation proposal writing process," was a retrospective case study to examine the implementation of peer-review practices in a doctoral dissertation proposal course.
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