Contact Information

Psychological and Quantitative Foundations
361 Lindquist Center S.
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242-1529

By appointment

• Ph.D. (Psychology), 1975, University of Washington

• Educational Psychology

• 1995-current: Professor, Educational Psychology, U. of I.
• 1989-1995: Associate Professor, Ed. Psych., U. of I.
• 1987-88: Visiting Assoc. Prof., Psych., U. of Colorado
• 1975-1989: various faculty appts., U. of Washington

• Society for the Scientific Study of Reading
• American Educational Research Association
• Society for Research in Child Development
• Iowa Academy of Education

• Coltheart, M., & Jackson, N. E. (1998). Defining dyslexia. CHILD PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY REVIEW, 3, 12-16.
• Jackson, N. E., Chen, H., Goldsberry, L., Kim, A., & Vanderwerff, C., (1999). Effects of variations in orthographic information on Asian and American Readers' English text reading. READING AND WRITING, 11, 345-379.
• Jackson, N.E. (2000). Strategies for modeling the development of giftedness in children. In R.C. Friedman & B.M. Shore (Eds.), TALENTS UNFOLDING: COGNITION AND DEVELOPMENT (pp. 27-54). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
• Jackson, N.E. & Coltheart, M.C. (2001).ROUTES TO READING SUCCESS AND FAILURE: TOWARD AN INTEGRATED COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY OF ATYPICAL READING. New York: Psychology Press. (Macquarie Cognitive Science Series.)
• Jackson, N.E. & Doellinger, H.L. (2002). Resilient readers? University students who are poor recoders but sometimes good comprehenders. JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY, 94, 64-78.
• Jackson, N.E., Everson, M.E. & Ke. C. (2003).Beginning readers' awareness of the orthographic structure of semantic-phonetic compounds: Lessons from a study of learners of Chinese as a foreign language. Chapter to appear in C. McBride-Chang & H-C Chen (Eds.),, READING DEVELOPMENT IN CHINESE CHILDREN.

• Individual differences in reading acquisition
• Reading English as a second language
• Reading in non-alphabetic orthographies
• Development of intellectual giftedness

• Cognitive Psychology of Reading
• Cognitive Development
• Child Development (graduate/undergraduate)