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'''Marilyn Jager Adams''' (born December 14, 1948) is a specialist in [[cognition]] and [[education]]. She holds the position of Visiting Scholar at [[Brown University]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Directory {{!}} Brown University |url=https://directory.brown.edu/?search_string=Marilyn%20Adam |access-date=2024-07-03 |website=directory.brown.edu}}</ref>


==Biography==
'''Dr. Marilyn Jager Adams''' was born on December 14, 1948. She holds a [[Ph.D.]] from [[Brown University]] in [[cognitive psychology]] and [[developmental psychology]] and is internationally regarded for her research and applied work in the areas of [[cognition]] and [[education]].
Adams received a [[Ph.D.]] from [[Brown University]] in [[cognitive psychology]] and [[developmental psychology]] in 1975.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Marilyn J Adams {{!}} Brown University - Academia.edu |url=https://brown.academia.edu/MarilynAdams/CurriculumVitae |access-date=2024-07-03 |website=brown.academia.edu |archive-date=2020-01-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200128203256/http://brown.academia.edu/MarilynAdams/CurriculumVitae |url-status=live }}</ref>


== Career ==
Recipient of the American Educational Research Association's [[Sylvia Scribner]] Award for outstanding research, Dr. Adams's contributions include the landmark book, ''Beginning to Read: Thinking and Learning About Print'' (1990).
She has been on the Planning or Steering Committee for [[National Assessment of Educational Progress]] (NAEP) Reading Assessment since 1992.


Adams was Senior Author of the Kindergarten and Grade 1 levels of [[Open Court Publishing Company]]'s 1995 reading and writing program, "Collections for Young Scholars", which focused on better classroom reading programs within the [[Reading First]] component of the [[No Child Left Behind Act]]. {{citation needed|date=May 2016}}
Dr. Adams chaired the Planning Committee and was a member of the Study Committee for the National Research Council's report, ''Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children'' (1998). She has been on the Planning or Steering Committee for [[National Assessment of Educational Progress]] (NAEP) Reading Assessment since 1992. She was on the Advisory Panel for the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) and has been given responsibility with developing a vocabulary module for the 2013 NAAL. She is working on this task in collaboration with Dr. Kathryn Spoehr, of [[Brown University]].


Adams served as Literacy Advisor for "[[Sesame Street]]" and Senior Advisor for Instruction for [[PBS]]'s "[[Between the Lions]]" since its inception. She is currently a Visiting [[Professor]] in the Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences Department at [[Brown University]] and Chief Scientist at Soliloquy Learning, a [[software]] company which she co-founded in 2000.
Dr. Adams was Senior Author of the Kindergarten and Grade 1 levels of [[Open Court Publishing Company]]'s 1995 reading and writing program, "Collections for Young Scholars"; the research-documented efficacy of this program (Foorman et al., 1998) was arguably a major impetus for the focus on better classroom reading programs within the [[Reading First]] component of the [[No Child Left Behind Act]].


==Honors==
Dr. Adams was the Principal Scientist of Phonics Instruction of [[Scholastic Inc.]]’s phonics intervention and foundational reading program “''System 44''”; which combines research-based [[phonics]] instruction with adaptive technology, and has been proven to improve the learning trajectories of the most at-risk students in Grades 3-12+.
She is the recipient of the American Educational Research Association's [[Sylvia Scribner]] Award for outstanding research.{{citation needed|date=April 2021}}
Dr. Adams also designed the continuous scope and sequence for [[Scholastic Inc.]]’s K-2 foundational literacy program, “''iRead''”; which draws upon her expertise as an architect of the [[Common Core State Standards]] to ensure that every student leaves second grade on a predictable path to college and career readiness.

Other instructional resources of which Dr. Adams was principal author are "Phonemic Awareness in Young Children" (1997) for emergent and remedial reading students, CTB/McGraw-Hill's "Fox in a Box," an award-winning, standards-based literacy assessment kit, and "Odyssey: A Curriculum for Thinking," a research-validated program on thinking skills that was originally developed for the Republic of [[Venezuela]].

Dr. Adams has served as Literacy Advisor for "[[Sesame Street]]" and has been Senior Advisor for Instruction for [[PBS]]'s "[[Between the Lions]]" since its inception. She is currently a Visiting [[Professor]] in the Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences Department at [[Brown University]] and Chief Scientist at Soliloquy Learning, a [[software]] company which she co-founded in 2000 with the mission of harnessing automated [[speech recognition]] in service of affordable, effective one-on-one support to students in learning to read and reading to learn. Soliloquy Learning's software is called the Soliloquy Reading Assistant.

Dr. Adams was cited in the 2001 ''Politics of Education Yearbook'' as one of the five most influential people in the national reading policy arena (McDaniel et al., 2001).


==References==
==References==
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1. Adams, M. J. (1990). Beginning to Read: Thinking and Learning about Print. [[Cambridge, MA]]: [[The MIT Press]].


* Adams, M. J. (1990). Beginning to Read: Thinking and Learning about Print. [[Cambridge, MA]]: [[The MIT Press]].
2. Adams, M. J., Foorman, B. R., Lundberg, I., & Beeler, T. (1998). Phonemic Awareness in Young Children: A Classroom Curriculum. [[Baltimore]]: Paul H. Brookes.
* Adams, M. J., Foorman, B. R., Lundberg, I., & Beeler, T. (1998). Phonemic Awareness in Young Children: A Classroom Curriculum. [[Baltimore]]: Paul H. Brookes.
* [http://products.brookespublishing.com/ABC-Foundations-for-Young-Children-P637.aspx ABC Foundations for Young Children A Classroom Curriculum] 3. Foorman, B.R., Francis, D.J., Fletcher, J.M., Schatschneider, C., and Mehta, P. (1998). The role of instruction in learning to read: Preventing reading failure in at-risk children. Journal of Educational Psychology, 90, 37–55.
* McDaniel, J.E., Sims, C.H., & Miskel, C.G. (2001). The National Reading Policy Arena: Policy actors and perceived Influence. Educational Policy, 15, 92–114.
* [[National Reading Panel]] (2000). Teaching children to read: An evidence-based assessment of the scientific research literature on reading and its implications for reading instruction. [[Washington, D.C.]]: [[National Institute of Child Health and Human Development]].
* National Research Council. (1998). Preventing reading difficulties in young children. [[Washington, D.C.]]: National Academy Press.
* [http://products.brookespublishing.com/ABC-Foundations-for-Young-Children-P637.aspx ABC Foundations for Young Children A Classroom Curriculum]


==External links==
3. Foorman, B.R., Francis, D.J., Fletcher, J.M., Schatschneider, C., and Mehta, P. (1998). The role of instruction in learning to read: Preventing reading failure in at-risk children. Journal of Educational Psychology, 90, 37-55.
*<nowiki/>[http://www.childrenofthecode.org/interviews/adams.htm Interview with Marilyn Jager Adams] on thinking and learning about beginning to read (2004)
*[http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/foundational-reading-phonics/system-44/program-overview/authors.htm Marilyn Jager Adams, Principal Scientist of Phonics Instruction] for ''System 44''


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4. McDaniel, J.E., Sims, C.H., & Miskel, C.G. (2001). The National Reading Policy Arena: Policy actors and perceived Influence. Educational Policy, 15, 92-114.

5. [[National Reading Panel]] (2000). Teaching children to read: An evidence-based assessment of the scientific research literature on reading and its implications for reading instruction. [[Washington, D.C.]]: [[National Institute of Child Health and Human Development]].

6. National Research Council. (1998). Preventing reading difficulties in young children. [[Washington, D.C.]]: National Academy Press.

==External links==
*[http://www.childrenofthecode.org/interviews/adams.htm Interview with Marilyn Jager Adams] on thinking and learning about beginning to read (2004)
*[http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/foundational-reading-phonics/system-44/program-overview/authors.htm Marilyn Jager Adams, Principal Scientist of Phonics Instruction] for ''System 44''.


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Marilyn Jager Adams
BornDecember 14, 1948
Alma materBrown University
OccupationPsychologist

Marilyn Jager Adams (born December 14, 1948) is a specialist in cognition and education. She holds the position of Visiting Scholar at Brown University.[1]

Biography

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Adams received a Ph.D. from Brown University in cognitive psychology and developmental psychology in 1975.[2]

Career

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She has been on the Planning or Steering Committee for National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Reading Assessment since 1992.

Adams was Senior Author of the Kindergarten and Grade 1 levels of Open Court Publishing Company's 1995 reading and writing program, "Collections for Young Scholars", which focused on better classroom reading programs within the Reading First component of the No Child Left Behind Act. [citation needed]

Adams served as Literacy Advisor for "Sesame Street" and Senior Advisor for Instruction for PBS's "Between the Lions" since its inception. She is currently a Visiting Professor in the Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences Department at Brown University and Chief Scientist at Soliloquy Learning, a software company which she co-founded in 2000.

Honors

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She is the recipient of the American Educational Research Association's Sylvia Scribner Award for outstanding research.[citation needed]

References

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  1. ^ "Directory | Brown University". directory.brown.edu. Retrieved 2024-07-03.
  2. ^ "Marilyn J Adams | Brown University - Academia.edu". brown.academia.edu. Archived from the original on 2020-01-28. Retrieved 2024-07-03.
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