Jennifer Lynn Watts was
born in Fort Worth Texas on November 22, 1971, the daughter of Virginia
Nell Watts and William Berry Watts. After completing her work at
Grapevine High School, Grapevine, Texas, in 1990, she entered The University
of Texas at Austin. She received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in
the field of Psychology from The University of Texas at Austin in May,
1994. She entered the Graduate School of Psychology at The University
of Texas at Austin in August, 1994 to pursue both a Master of Arts and
a Doctorate degree in Psychology. Her main area of research centered
around the problems affecting reading acquisition of children.
Curriculum Vita
(updated 10/9/00)
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Biographical Data:
Birth date: November 22, 1971
Place of Birth: Fort Worth, Texas
Education:
2001: Ph.D. The University
of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX; Cognition and Perception (major), Linguistics
(minor).
1996: M.A. The University
of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX; Cognition and Perception (major), Linguistics
(minor).
1994: B.A. The University
of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX; Psychology (major), Zoology (minor).
Work Experience:
September 1999-December 1999:
Contractor for Benchmark Education Company
Supervisor: Susan Paynter
Duties: Worked to develop
lesson plans for a Phonemic Awareness training program for a larger early
literacy program called Phonetic Connections.
1994-present: Teaching Assistant/Research
Assistant, The University of Texas at Austin.
Supervisor: Dr. Philip Gough
Duties: Assisted teaching
and conducted research projects.
Manuscripts in Preparation:
Watts, J. L. Phonemic awareness
and the phonological "g" hypothesis. (Masters Thesis)
Watts, J. L. Aspects of phonemic
awareness training procedures.
Works in Progress:
Watts, J. L. The structure and development
of phonemic awareness: Finding more effective training methods (Dissertation).
Gough, P.B., Wren, S., Watts, J.,
Deneen-Bell, N., & Lee, C. H. The miscues of skilled readers.
Gough, P.B., Wren, S., Watts, J.,
Deneen-Bell, N., & Larson, K. The effect of typographical errors on
reading time.
Publications:
Watts, J. (Contributing Author,
2000). Phonetic Connections-Start Up to Build Up 1, a Teacher’s Resource
System: Phonological Awareness.
Conference Presentations:
Watts, J. L., & Gough, P.B.
(1995). The suppression of irrelevant information in comprehension: A failure
to replicate. Paper presented at the annual meeting, Southwest Psychological
Association, San Antonio, TX.
Watts, J. L., & Gough, P.B.
(1996). Cohesion and semantics. Paper presented at the annual meeting,
Southwest Psychological Association, Houston, TX.
Watts, J. L. (1997). Phonemic
awareness and the phonological "g" hypothesis. Paper presented at
the annual meeting, Southwest Psychological Association, Fort Worth, TX.
Teaching Experience:
Teaching Assistant Psychology of
Reading
Psychology of Language
Introduction to statistics
and research design
Experimental Psychology:
Advanced statistics and research design
Professional Tutoring
Statistics
French
Research Interests:
Reading:
Early reading acquisition
Phonemic awareness training
Phonemic awareness development
Phonemic awareness structure
Phonological ability and
reading
Reading disorders
Reading skill development
Reading instruction methods
References:
Philip B. Gough, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
The University of Texas at Austin
Department of Psychology
Mezes
Austin, Texas 78712
gough@psy.utexas.edu
(512) 471-2115
Clarke Burnham, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
The University of Texas at Austin
Department of Psychology
Mezes
Austin, Texas 78712
burnham@psy.utexas.edu
(512) 471-1157
Sebastian Wren, Ph.D.
Program Specialist
The Southwest Education Development
Laboratory
211 E. 7th Street
Austin, TX 78701-3281
swren@sedl.org
(512) 476-6861 ex. 294
