Dr. Sandra Schamroth Abrams
Sandra Schamroth Abrams, Ph.D., is a Professor of Adolescent Education at St. John’s University and a thought leader and researcher of adolescents’ digital literacies. A hallmark of her work is the examination of meaning making in, across, and beyond digital and nondigital spaces. Her research of videogaming and game-based learning reveals a layering of literacies deeply rooted in the seamless movement among modalities and resources across digital and nondigital spaces. Her work suggests that the nuances of gaming practices can disrupt convention, promote social responsibility, and provide new avenues for pedagogical discovery.
She has authored/co-authored over 60 publications, and her research has been featured in leading journals, including Teachers College Record, Journal of Literacy Research, the Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, Language & Linguistics, and Educational Media International. She is the author of Integrating Virtual and Traditional Learning in 6-12 Classrooms: A Layered Literacies Approach to Multimodal Meaning Making (Routledge), co-author of Conducting Qualitative Research of Learning in Online Spaces (SAGE) and Managing Educational Technology: School Partnerships and Technology Integration (Routledge), and co-editor of Bridging Literacies with Videogames (Sense). Forthcoming collaborative publications include Child-Parent Research Reimagined (Brill), An Integrated Mixed Methods Approach to Nonverbal Communication Data: A Practical Guide to Collection and Analysis in Online and Offline Spaces (Routledge). Abrams also is a founding co-editor of the Gaming and Ecologies Series (Brill) and an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Multiple Research Approaches. Abrams is the recipient of the 2019 Quality Paper Award from the United States Distance Learning Association for her co-authored article, Gamification and accessibility.
Dr. Abrams has had the honor to work on a number of sponsored projects. Abrams was a Research Team Member for the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) Goal II Grant: Assess-As-You-Go [Scholar] Project, and she was Research Team Member and Professional Development Facilitator for a related Literacy Courseware Pilot in a Bill & Melinda Gates-sponsored study. Abrams also served as a Technology Consultant and Assessment Coordinator for a New York City Department of Education Award: Learning and Technology Grant. Additionally, Abrams was awarded funding from Vocabulary.com to support qualitative examinations of adolescents’ use of online and offline vocabulary tools and vocabulary development.
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Personal website: https://www.sandrasabrams.com/
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Dr. Abrams' short curriculum vitae
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Dr. Abrams' Google scholar page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4cvaIqcAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
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Dr. Abrams' books