Her research interests are in teachers’ professional development and teachers’ interpretations of their professional development, and in children’s literacy interpretations in different instructional settings. Dr. Freppon has done comparative research on whole language/literature-based classrooms and skills-based classrooms. She is published in national and international journals such as Reading Research Quarterly, The Journal of Literacy Research, Language Arts, Reading and Writing Quarterly, Research in the Teaching of English, and the American Educational Research Association Journal. Currently, Dr. Freppon is working on a three-year Reading and Writing for Critical Thinking project with the International Reading Association and the Soros Open Society Institute in Uzbekistan.
