Rate My Professor Dennis Davis

Davis joined North Carolina State University as Associate Professor of Literacy Education in 2016 and advanced to full Professor. Previously, he was Assistant Professor of Literacy Education in the Department of Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching at the University of Texas at San Antonio from 2010 to 2016. His research centers on upper-elementary literacy instruction, with emphasis on reading comprehension processes, teachers' knowledge of reading development, and assessment and intervention strategies for students when standard approaches prove insufficient. He has authored or co-authored numerous peer-reviewed articles in journals such as Reading Research Quarterly, Reading & Writing Quarterly, Literacy Research and Instruction, and The Reading Teacher. Key publications include "What do upper-elementary and middle school teachers know about the processes of text comprehension?" (Reading & Writing, 2022, with Tenore, McElhone, and DeIaco); "Getting KnERDI with language: Examining teachers’ knowledge for enhancing reading development in code-based and meaning-based domains" (Reading Research Quarterly, 2021, with Samuelson, Grifenhagen, DeIaco, and Relyea); and "The dangers of test preparation: What students learn (and don’t learn) about reading comprehension from test-centric literacy instruction" (The Reading Teacher, 2018, with Vehabovic). Davis received the North Carolina Educational Policy Fellowship (2018-2019), NC State College of Education Dean’s Innovation Fund Award (2017), University of Texas System Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award (2014), Otto Bassler Award for Outstanding Dissertation (2011), and Predoctoral Fellowships from the National Academy of Education and the Institute of Education Sciences. He has served as co-editor of the Journal of Literacy Research and contributed to policy efforts, including a common framework for literacy instruction in UNC system teacher preparation programs and strategic recommendations for literacy and equity in North Carolina.