College of Education

Education

• Ph.D., Curriculum & Instruction, Boston College
• M.S.Ed., Special Education/Learning Disabilities, CUNY-Hunter
• A.B., English and Sociology, Amherst College

Biography

Rebecca A. Louick, Ph.D., is proud to be joining the EMU faculty as an Assistant Professor of Special Education. For eight years, prior to her doctoral studies, she was a middle- and high-school teacher at schools for students with learning disabilities. At St. John's University in New York City, she taught courses on reading methods for students with special needs, assessment of students with special needs, special education research, and special education more generally. Her research focuses on literacy motivation among adolescents with learning disabilities.

Interests and Expertise

• Learning disabilities
• Academic motivation
• Literacy

Publications and Presentations

Selected Publications

• Louick, R., & Wang, M. (in press). Classroom discourse and disability: Interactional
  opportunities for development of self-determination beliefs. Journal of Educational
  Research.
• Louick, R., & Scanlon, D. (in press). Sustained feelings of success and agency: Keys to
  literacy motivation among adolescents with learning disabilities. Exceptionality.
• Wang, M., & Louick, R. (2020). Positioning and motivation: A discourse analysis of
  classroom interactions between teacher and students with disabilities. Learning
  Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal,25(2), 28-40.
• Louick, R., Daley, S., & Robinson, K. (2019). Using an autonomy-oriented learning
  environment for struggling readers: Variations in teacher sense-making and
  instructional approach. Elementary School Journal, 120(1), 176-196.
• Louick, R., Leider, C.M., Daley, S.G., Proctor, C. P., & Gardner, G. L. (2016). Motivation
  for reading among struggling middle school readers: A mixed methods study. Learning
  and Individual Differences, 49, 260-269.

Selected Presentations

• Louick, R., & Wang, M. (2021, April; proposal accepted). Classroom Discourse and
  Disability: Interactional Opportunities for Development of Self-Determination Beliefs.
  American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting.
• Emery, A., & Louick, R. (2021, April; proposal accepted). Examining How Prominent
  Educational Psychology Journals Create and Resist Space for Understanding Disability.
  American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting.
• Wang, M., & Louick, R. (2020, April 17-21). Positioning and Motivation: A Discourse
  Analysis of Classroom Interactions between Teacher and Students with Disabilities
  [Poster]. American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA. (Conference
  canceled)
• Louick, R., &Daley, S. (October 4, 2019). Interpersonal Contributions to Literacy
  Motivation of Adolescents with Learning Disabilities. Poster presented at the annual
  meeting of the Council for Learning Disabilities, San Antonio, Texas.
• Louick, R., & Daley, S. (October 12, 2018). Teachers' Approaches to Implementing
  Autonomy-Oriented Learning Environment for Struggling Readers. Poster presented at
  the annual meeting of the Council for Learning Disabilities, Portland, OR.