Katia Ciampa, PhD

Director of Reading Programs
Associate Professor

503 E. 13th Street

Chester, PA 19013

Room 213
(610) 499-4652
kciampa@widener.edu

Affiliated Programs

Education

PhD, Education, Cognition & Learning (2014)
Brock University (Ontario, Canada)

About Me

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 multiliteracies, the role of motivation in literacy learning, and supporting pre-service teachers’ literacy instructional practices.

Publications

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

Ciampa, K., & Wolfe, Z. (2019). Preparing for dissertation writing: Doctoral education students’ perceptions. Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, 10(2), 86-108.

Herman, H., & Ciampa, K. (2019). Chapter 9: The effects of digital literacy support tools on first grade students’ comprehension of informational e-books. In J.E. Kim & B. Hassinger-Das (Eds.), Reading in the digital age: Young children’s experiences with e-books (pp. 175-196). New York, NY: Springer International Publishing AG.

Noteworthy

Education Professors Publish Article in Teaching in Higher Education

September 23, 2020

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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