Dr. Gerald Maring

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

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.