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Overview

Beth M. Phillips is affiliated with Florida State University in the United States. Their research spans primarily within the social sciences, with a strong focus on education and developmental and educational psychology. The majority of their work addresses aspects of reading and literacy development, early childhood education and development, and parental involvement in education.

Phillips has contributed to multiple fields including statistics and probability, anatomy, and pathology and forensic medicine, though these are less prominent compared to their core focus on education and developmental psychology.

The scientist has published extensively, appearing notably in several scholarly venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • JACCP JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CLINICAL PHARMACY
  • Early Childhood Research Quarterly
  • Pharmacotherapy The Journal of Human Pharmacology and Drug Therapy
  • Journal of Educational Psychology
  • Reading and Writing

Their recent papers reflect a focus on language and literacy development, educational psychology, and early childhood interventions. Selected recent publications include:

  • "How the Science of Reading Informs 21st-Century Education" (2020), Reading Research Quarterly
  • "Differential patterns of growth in reading and math skills during elementary school." (2020), Journal of Educational Psychology
  • "Influences of the home language and literacy environment on Spanish and English vocabulary growth among dual language learners" (2021), Early Childhood Research Quarterly
  • "Supporting language and literacy development with intensive small-group interventions: An early childhood efficacy study" (2021), Early Childhood Research Quarterly
  • "Unpacking the language teaching belief-practice alignment among preschool teachers serving children from low-SES backgrounds" (2024), Teaching and Teacher Education

Collaboration is an important aspect of their work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Michael Maddux
  • Jerry L. Bauman
  • Stuart T. Haines
  • Erika J. Ernst
  • Iowa City

Their main topics of research cover a variety of areas such as:

  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Parental Involvement in Education
  • Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Medical and Biological Sciences

Best Publications

  • Phonological sensitivity: A quasi‐parallel progression of word structure units and cognitive operations

    Jason L. Anthony;Christopher J. Lonigan;Kimberly Driscoll;Beth M. Phillips

  • Successful phonological awareness instruction with preschool children: Lessons from the classroom.

    Beth M. Phillips;Jeanine Clancy-Menchetti;Christopher J. Lonigan

  • Temperament, Anxiety, and the Processing of Threat-Relevant Stimuli

    Christopher J. Lonigan;Michael W. Vasey;Beth M. Phillips;Rebecca A. Hazen

  • Relations of positive and negative affectivity to anxiety and depression in children: Evidence from a latent variable longitudinal study.

    Christopher J. Lonigan;Beth M. Phillips;Eric S. Hooe

  • Structure of Preschool Phonological Sensitivity: Overlapping Sensitivity to Rhyme, Words, Syllables, and Phonemes☆

    Jason L. Anthony;Christopher J. Lonigan;Stephen R. Burgess;Kimberly Driscoll

  • Relations Among Emergent Literacy Skills, Behavior Problems, and Social Competence in Preschool Children From Low- and Middle-Income Backgrounds:

    Christopher J. Lonigan;Brenlee G. Bloomfield;Jason L. Anthony;Kimberly D. Bacon

  • Variations in the Home Literacy Environment of Preschool Children: A Cluster Analytic Approach

    Beth M. Phillips;Christopher J. Lonigan

  • Promoting the development of preschool children’s emergent literacy skills: a randomized evaluation of a literacy-focused curriculum and two professional development models

    Christopher J. Lonigan;JoAnn M. Farver;Beth M. Phillips;Jeanine Clancy-Menchetti

  • Temperamental influences on the development of anxiety disorders.

    Christopher J. Lonigan;Beth M. Phillips

  • The nature of preschool phonological processing abilities and their relations to vocabulary, general cognitive abilities, and print knowledge

    Christopher J. Lonigan;Jason L. Anthony;Beth M. Phillips;David J. Purpura

  • First graders' literacy and self-regulation gains: The effect of individualizing student instruction

    Carol Mc Donald Connor;Claire Cameron Ponitz;Beth M. Phillips;Q. Monét Travis

  • An affect-based, hierarchical model of temperament and its relations with internalizing symptomatology.

    Jason L. Anthony;Christopher J. Lonigan;Eric S. Hooe;Beth M. Phillips

  • Cognitive Correlates of Listening Comprehension.

    Young-Suk Kim;Beth Phillips

  • Enhancing early child care quality and learning for toddlers at risk: The responsive early childhood program.

    Susan H. Landry;Tricia A. Zucker;Heather B. Taylor;Paul R. Swank

  • Positive and negative affectivity in children: a multitrait-multimethod investigation.

    Beth M. Phillips;Christopher J. Lonigan;Kimberly Driscoll;Eric S. Hooe

  • The Factor Structure of Effortful Control and Measurement Invariance Across Ethnicity and Sex in a High-Risk Sample

    Michael J. Sulik;Snjezana Huerta;Argero A. Zerr;Nancy Eisenberg

  • Social Correlates of Emergent Literacy

    Beth M. Phillips

  • A Computer-Assisted Instruction Phonological Sensitivity Program for Preschool Children At-Risk for Reading Problems.

    Christopher J. Lonigan;Kimberly Driscoll;Beth M. Phillips;Brenlee G. Cantor

  • How the Science of Reading Informs 21st-Century Education.

    Yaacov Petscher;Sonia Q. Cabell;Hugh W. Catts;Donald L. Compton

  • Relations of Children’s Effortful Control and Teacher–Child Relationship Quality to School Attitudes in a Low-Income Sample

    Kassondra M. Silva;Tracy L. Spinrad;Nancy Eisenberg;Michael J. Sulik

  • Variations in the Home Literacy Environment of Preschool Children

    Beth M Phillips;Christopher J Lonigan

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher J. Lonigan
Christopher J. Lonigan Florida State University
Jason L. Anthony
Jason L. Anthony University of South Florida
Nancy Eisenberg
Nancy Eisenberg Arizona State University
Young-Suk Grace Kim
Young-Suk Grace Kim University of California, Irvine
Susan H. Landry
Susan H. Landry The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Carol McDonald Connor
Carol McDonald Connor University of California, Irvine
Tracy L. Spinrad
Tracy L. Spinrad Arizona State University
Paul R. Swank
Paul R. Swank The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Marcia A. Barnes
Marcia A. Barnes Vanderbilt University
Carlos Valiente
Carlos Valiente Arizona State University

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