Carol McDonald Connor (1953-2020)

Memorializes Carol McDonald Connor (1953-2020). Connor's research focused on understanding child-by-instruction interactions in the classroom. She began this work with a series of observational studies documenting that children's responses to different types of reading instruction varied markedly depending on their language, self-regulation, and reading skills. She then used her observational results to "reverse engineer" recommendations for the amounts and types of literacy instruction most likely to benefit children with different skill profiles. Her first faculty position, in 2004, was in the College of Education at Florida State University and the Florida Center for Reading Research. In 2012 she joined the Department of Psychology and the Learning Sciences Institute at Arizona State University, and then moved to the University of California, Irvine, as a Chancellor's Professor in the School of Education in 2016. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).