Dr. Pennington earned her Ph.D. in Curriculum & Instruction with specializations in Literacy Studies and Educational Psychology from the University of South Florida. 

The infographic below highlights Dr. Pennington's main research interests. 

 Infographic of Dr. Pennington's Research Interests: Adolescent reading achievement & motivation for reading as influenced by contextual factors such as teacher self-efficacy, teacher beliefs about reading, classroom instructional practices, utilization of technology, value placed on literacy in school, availability of varied texts, and student factors such as brain based differences and their personal definition of reading. 

 

 
 
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