Schotz Lab
Department of Psychology
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Current Projects
Rapid Automatized Naming
The Schotz Lab has several ongoing projects related to rapid automatized naming (RAN) as a predictor of reading performance in children and adults.Methodology
One focus of the lab is to develop and/or use innovative statistical models to answer meaningful questions of relevance to research on reading development and education.Open Science
LDbase is a collaboration between researchers and librarians to build a first-of-its-kind behavioral data repository containing decades of knowledge from educational and developmental sciences on individuals across the full range of abilities. LDbase is an open science resource for the educational and developmental science scientific communities, providing a secure place to store and access data, as well access materials about aspects of data management and analyses.
Principal Investigator
Christopher Schatschneider
Ph.D., 1995 - Case Western Reserve University
Dr. Christopher Schatschneider is a professor of Psychology at Florida State University and an associate director of the Florida Center for Reading Research. His research
focuses on early reading development, methodology, and statistics.Contact
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Graduate Students
Dana Santangelo
B.S., 2020 - Florida State University
Dana is a fifth year doctoral student in the Developmental Psychology program and an IES pre-doctoral research fellow. Dana’s research interests include reading anxiety and reading motivation, K-3 reading development, early assessment, and rapid automized naming. Her long-term career goal is to work as a reading researcher for a non-profit organization.Contact
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Christine White
M.S., 2023 - Florida State University
B.A., 2017 - University of Wisconsin-Madison
Christine is a fourth year doctoral student in Developmental Psychology and an IES pre-doctoral research fellow. She is interested in early identification of risk for reading problems, particularly in using advanced statistical methods to evaluate and improve school-based assessment and decision-making.Contact
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Emma Friedmann
B.S., 2022 - Christopher Newport University
Emma is a third year doctoral student in Developmental Psychology. Emma is interested in the cognitive processes involved in reading and advanced statistical methodology.Contact
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Cristian Vazquez
B.S., 2021 - Florida State University
Cristian is a third year doctoral student in Developmental Psycholog, an IES pre-doctoral research fellow, and a McKnight Doctoral Fellow. He is interested in studying the development of reading and reading related skills and how early literacy instruction can be improved to help struggling readers learn to read.Contact
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Recent Publications
White, C. M., Estrera, S. A., Schatschneider, C., & Hart, S. A. (in press). Getting started with data sharing: Advice for researchers in education. Research in Special Education. PostprintWhite, C. M. & Schatschneider, C. (2023). Are two screeners better than one? A simulation study of correlation and classification in universal screening. Contemporary School Psychology (online first publication). Doi: 10.1007/s40688-023-00478-0. Open DataSchatschneider, C., Santangelo, D., White, C. M., Vazquez, C., & Friedmann, E. (2023). Design and methodology in the Science of Reading. The Reading League Journal, 4 (1), 23-31. Google ScholarEdwards, A. A., van Dijk, W., White, C. M., & Schatschneider, C. (2022). Screening screeners: Calculating
classification indices using correlations and cut-points. Annals of Dyslexia, 1-16. Google Scholar