Dr. Gerald Maring

Co-Director, Engineering Education Research Center
Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning

Gerald Maring Department of Teaching and Learning
Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-2132

Phone: 509-335-5651
Email: maring@wsu.edu

Engineering Education Research Interests

Teacher development in literacy education, quantitative literacy and problem solving, and the STEM literacies
Innovative use of technological literacy including cybermentoring for K-12 recruitment and retention in STEM [Science Technology Engineering Mathematics] literacy and learning
- Variations on a cybermentoring theme: Six literacy projects involving preservice teachers and students across grade levels
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- Cybermentoring: The relationship between preservice teachers’ use of online literacy strategies and student achievement
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- School-university partnerships through online pattern books
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Education

Ph.D. Reading Education, Content Literacy, 1977, University of Missouri
M.A. Reading Education, 1974, California State University, Chico
Teaching Credential, History and English, 1968, University of San Francisco
B.A. Philosophy and History, St. Thomas Seminary, Denver

Professional Experience

2004 - present, Co-Director, Engineering Education Research Center, Washington State University.
2004 - present, Director, Coeur D’Alene Indian Tribe Video Conferencing Tutorial Project.
1999-2005, Co-PI, Collaboration for Teacher Education Accountable to Children with High Needs Project (Co-Teach).
1999 - present, Professor, WSU.
1986, Adjunct Instructor/Professor, Seattle Pacific University.
1982 - 1999, Associate Professor, Graduate and Undergraduate Faculty, WSU.
1977 - 1982, Assistant Professor, WSU.
1977 - 1984, Director, University Reading and Study Skills Program.

Awards

Outstanding NUTN Distance Education Innovation Award (WSU Cybermentoring Project), 2003.
World Class/Face to Face WSU Research Faculty (Viewbook), 2003.
Faculty Excellence Award of Service, 2001.
Outstanding Faculty Member Teaching Award, Kappa Delta Sorority, 1997.
Sigma Tau Chapter of Kapp Delta Sorority Award for Outstanding Faculty Member, 1996.

Teaching

Study Skills and Content Area Instruction
Content Area Reading and Study Skills Practicum
Psychology of Reading [Scientific Research in Literacy]
Innovations in Reading
Literacy Development Seminar [Interdisciplinary]

Selected Publications and Book Sections

Maring, G.H. Cybermentoring/Engineering Education Research Center [poster session]. Engineering and Computing Education Grantee/PI Meeting. Renaissance, Wash. DC: 16-18 February 2005.
Akmal, T. and Maring, G.H. (2004). Beyond PDS: Using Traditional and Cyber Practices for Distant Partnerships. The Teacher Educator (Fall).
Maring, Gerald H., Michelle Fickle, and Mea Moore. Cyber mentoring with K-12 partnership schools at a distance. Los Angeles, CA: United States Department of Education Teacher Quality Enhancement Conference, 4 December 2003.
Johnson, Todd, Maring, Gerald H., Bill Jordan, and Marty Daybell. Cybermentoring: Relationships and Partnerships: K/20 Update Indianapolis, Indiana: Internet2 Member Meeting, October 15, 2003.
Maring, Gerald H. Video Conferencing and Literacy : Preservice Teachers Cyber Mentor K-12 Students [Preconvention Institute 2--Hands-on Computer Lab Presentation]. Orlando, Florida: 48th Annual Convention of the International Reading Association, 4 May 2003.
Maring, G.H., Levy, E.W., & Schmid, J.A. (2002, November). Variations on a cybermentoring theme: Six literacy projects involving preservice teachers and students across grade levels. Reading Online, 6(4). Read paper
Boxie, P. & Maring, G.H. (2002, Autumn). Using web-based activities to enhance writing in science: The dynamic earth project. The Teacher Educator, 38(2), 99-111.
Boxie, P., & Maring, G.H. (2001, May). Cybermentoring: The relationship between preservice teachers’ use of online literacy strategies and student achievement. Reading Online, 4(10). Read paper
Davis, Teresa M, Anne Bianchi, and Maring, Gerald H. (2001). Chapter Nine: Service Learning for Teacher Preparation Programs in Rural Areas. In Anderson, Jeffrey B.,
Swick, Kevin, and Joost, YFF. Service-Learning in Teacher Education:
Enhancing the Growth of New Teachers, Their Students, and Communities.
Washington, DC: American Association for Colleges for Teacher Education,
pp.116-125.
Maring, G.H., Boxie, P., & Wiseman, B.J. (2000, November). School-university partnerships through online pattern books. Reading Online, 4(5). Read paper
Maring, Gerald H., Wiseman, Beau J., and Myers, Kurt S. (1997). Using the World Wide Web to Build Learning Communities: Writing for Genuine Purposes, Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 41(2), pp. 196-207.
Maring, Gerald H. (1997) " Adding Service Learning to the Core Program At Washington State University." In Joseph A. Erickson and Jeffrey B. Anderson (Eds.) Learning with the Community: Concepts and models for service-learning in Teacher Education. Washington, DC: American Association for Higher Education and the America Association for Colleges of Teacher Education. pages 179-185.

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