Education & Human Development

Faculty & Staff

Marcia Davidson
Marcia.davidson@umit.maine.edu

University of Maine
112 Shibles Hall
Orono, ME 04469-5766

(207) 581-2472 Phone
(207) 581-2423 Fax

Title:
Assistant Professor of Special Education

Education:
Ph.D. University of Washington, Seattle (1991)
M.S. Central Florida University (1975)
B.A. Webster University, St. Louis (1972)

Research interests:

• Early childhood reading acquisition
• Reading fluency
• Intervention and assessment

Representative Publications:

Davidson, M. (2002). (Lead Author). Issues paper for the National Assessment of Educational Progress 2007 Reading Assessment. Education Leaders Council with the Thomas B. Fordham Institute.

Davidson, M., Standal, T.C., Towner, J. (2002). The Reading Fluency Monitor. Read Naturally Corporation, St. Paul, Minnesota.

Davidson, M., & Myhre, O. (2000). Reading at grade level: Is there a simple, reliable, cost effective way to find out? Educational Leadership, 57, (5), 25-28.

Stage, S.A., Sheppard, J., Davidson, M., & Browning, M.M. (2001). Prediction of first-graders’ growth in oral reading fluency. Journal of School Psychology, 39, 225-237.

Davidson, M., Howell, K.W., & Hoekema, P. (2000). The effects of ethnicity and violent content on the assignment of rubric scores in writing samples. Journal of Educational Research, 93 (6), 367-374.