Carol McDonald Connor

10.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
118 papers, 7.5k citations indexed

About

Carol McDonald Connor is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education and Statistics and Probability. According to data from OpenAlex, Carol McDonald Connor has authored 118 papers receiving a total of 7.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 97 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 68 papers in Education and 23 papers in Statistics and Probability. Recurrent topics in Carol McDonald Connor's work include Reading and Literacy Development (82 papers), Early Childhood Education and Development (31 papers) and Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (23 papers). Carol McDonald Connor is often cited by papers focused on Reading and Literacy Development (82 papers), Early Childhood Education and Development (31 papers) and Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (23 papers). Carol McDonald Connor collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Australia. Carol McDonald Connor's co-authors include Frederick J. Morrison, Abigail M. Jewkes, Claire E. Cameron, Megan M. McClelland, Teresa A. Zwolan, Christopher Schatschneider, Barry Fishman, Annemarie H. Hindman, Elizabeth Coyne Crowe and Leigh McLean and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Carol McDonald Connor

113 papers receiving 6.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Links between behavioral regulation and preschoolers' literacy, vocabulary, and math skills.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Carol McDonald Connor United States	43	4.7k	4.4k	1.2k	991	971	118	7.5k
Paul Leseman Netherlands	39	2.6k 0.6×	2.6k 0.6×	864 0.7×	725 0.7×	611 0.6×	134	5.2k
Hugh W. Catts United States	50	9.1k 1.9×	3.3k 0.8×	2.5k 2.1×	2.2k 2.2×	867 0.9×	80	9.9k
Peter F. de Jong Netherlands	44	5.4k 1.2×	3.2k 0.7×	1.8k 1.5×	2.1k 2.1×	373 0.4×	133	6.9k
Yaacov Petscher United States	41	4.0k 0.8×	2.8k 0.6×	674 0.5×	1.2k 1.2×	333 0.3×	184	5.3k
Anna‐Maija Poikkeus Finland	48	3.5k 0.7×	3.6k 0.8×	725 0.6×	942 1.0×	902 0.9×	176	6.2k
Kate Nation United Kingdom	54	8.2k 1.7×	3.0k 0.7×	4.4k 3.6×	2.0k 2.0×	400 0.4×	137	9.8k
Frederick J. Morrison United States	51	5.9k 1.2×	8.3k 1.9×	1.3k 1.0×	1.7k 1.7×	3.1k 3.2×	129	12.2k
Donald L. Compton United States	46	5.9k 1.3×	3.6k 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	3.4k 3.4×	644 0.7×	127	7.5k
Catherine McBride‐Chang Hong Kong	67	8.9k 1.9×	4.6k 1.0×	3.3k 2.6×	3.5k 3.5×	1.8k 1.8×	150	12.4k
Jo‐Anne LeFevre Canada	41	5.3k 1.1×	6.0k 1.4×	1.2k 1.0×	4.4k 4.4×	387 0.4×	136	9.1k

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Day, Stephanie, et al.. (2025). Choose Your Own Adventure: Interactive E‐Books to Improve Word Knowledge and Comprehension Skills. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning. 41(2).

Mazzocco, Michèle M. M., Margaret Burchinal, Ann C. Schulte, et al.. (2024). Mathematics in U.S. Preschool and Kindergarten Classrooms. Early Childhood Research Quarterly. 69. 25–37. 3 indexed citations

Phillips, Beth M., et al.. (2024). Impact of supplemental multicomponent early childhood language instruction.. Journal of Educational Psychology. 116(6). 1034–1051. 1 indexed citations

Connor, Carol McDonald, et al.. (2022). Bringing Assessment-to-Instruction (A2i) technology to scale: Exploring the process from development to implementation.. Journal of Educational Psychology. 114(7). 1495–1532. 4 indexed citations

Pelham, William E., Amy R. Altszuler, Brittany M. Merrill, et al.. (2022). The effect of stimulant medication on the learning of academic curricula in children with ADHD: A randomized crossover study.. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. 90(5). 367–380. 9 indexed citations

Day, Stephanie, et al.. (2020). Opening the black box: user-log analyses of children’s e-Book reading and associations with word knowledge. Reading and Writing. 34(3). 627–657. 4 indexed citations

Connor, Carol McDonald, et al.. (2019). Observing individual children in early childhood classrooms using Optimizing Learning Opportunities for Students (OLOS): A feasibility study. Early Childhood Research Quarterly. 52(Pt B). 74–89. 15 indexed citations

Connor, Carol McDonald, et al.. (2018). Building word knowledge, learning strategies, and metacognition with the Word-Knowledge e-Book. Computers & Education. 128. 284–311. 43 indexed citations

McLean, Leigh, Tashia Abry, Michelle Taylor, & Carol McDonald Connor. (2018). Associations among teachers' depressive symptoms and students' classroom instructional experiences in third grade. Journal of School Psychology. 69. 154–168. 24 indexed citations

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Carlisle, Joanne F., et al.. (2018). Observations of Vocabulary Activities during Second- and Third-Grade Reading Lessons. Education Sciences. 8(4). 198–198. 7 indexed citations

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Connor, Carol McDonald, et al.. (2017). Using assessment to individualize early mathematics instruction. Journal of School Psychology. 66. 97–113. 41 indexed citations

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Connor, Carol McDonald. (2016). A Lattice Model of the Development of Reading Comprehension. Child Development Perspectives. 10(4). 269–274. 44 indexed citations

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Toste, Jessica R., Nancy L. Heath, Carol McDonald Connor, & Peng Peng. (2015). Reconceptualizing Teacher-Student Relationships. The Elementary School Journal. 116(1). 30–48. 11 indexed citations

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Otaiba, Stephanie Al, Carol McDonald Connor, Jessica Sidler Folsom, et al.. (2015). To Wait in Tier 1 or Intervene Immediately: A Randomized Experiment Examining First Grade Response to Intervention (RTI) in Reading.. Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness. 4 indexed citations

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Connor, Carol McDonald, et al.. (2014). Making Individualized Literacy Instruction Available to All Teachers: Adapting the Assessment to Instruction (A2i) Software for Multiple Real-World Contexts. Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference. 2014(1). 1220–1226. 2 indexed citations

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Connor, Carol McDonald, Beth M. Phillips, Michael P. Kaschak, et al.. (2014). Comprehension Tools for Teachers: Reading for Understanding from Prekindergarten Through Fourth Grade. Educational Psychology Review. 26(3). 379–401. 31 indexed citations

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Connor, Carol McDonald, et al.. (2011). Testing the Impact of Child Characteristics × Instruction Interactions on Third Graders' Reading Comprehension by Differentiating Literacy Instruction. Reading Research Quarterly. 46(3). 189–221. 102 indexed citations

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Connor, Carol McDonald, et al.. (2010). Content Area Literacy: Individualizing Student Instruction in Second‐Grade Science. The Reading Teacher. 63(6). 474–485. 13 indexed citations

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Easterbrooks, Susan R., Amy R. Lederberg, & Carol McDonald Connor. (2010). Contributions of the Emergent Literacy Environment to Literacy Outcomes for Young Children Who Are Deaf. American annals of the deaf. 155(4). 467–480. 24 indexed citations

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Moeller, Mary Pat, J. Bruce Tomblin, Christine Yoshinaga‐Itano, Carol McDonald Connor, & Susan Jerger. (2007). Current State of Knowledge: Language and Literacy of Children with Hearing Impairment. Ear and Hearing. 28(6). 740–753. 263 indexed citations

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