Dr Jessie Ricketts

  • Qualifications and position:
    • PhD
    • Post -Doctoral Fellow
  • Faculty:
  • Department:
  • Summary:
    • I have recently completed a doctorate in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford. My doctoral research explored reciprocal relationships between reading and oral vocabulary skills by collecting longitudinal data and using word learning experiments. I joined the IOE in January 2009 to continue with literacy research.
  • Teaching:
    • MA in Literacy Development
  • Research Projects:
    • Standardisation of the FRLL Reading Test
  • Postgraduate Research:
    • Development
      Reading
      Spelling
      Oral vocabulary
      Word learning
      Autism Spectrum Disorders
  • Conferences/presentations:
    • A comparison of sight word learning in children with dyslexia and poor comprehenders.
      Talk presented in symposium: Making links between oral language and reading development at the British Psychological Society Developmental Section meeting, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK. September 2008
      Word learning with and without orthography.
      Poster presented at the Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Studies of Reading, Asheville, North Carolina, US. July 2008 Reading development and educational attainment in poor comprehenders.
      Poster presented at the ESRC Seminar Series: Reading Comprehension: from Theory to Practice, University of Lancaster, Lancaster, UK. January 2008
  • Languages Spoken:
    • Italian (intermediate)
      French and Spanish (basic)
      Cannot interview in these languages
  • Languages Written:
    • Italian
      French and Spanish (basic)
Dr Jessie Ricketts

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Publications

  • Ricketts, J., Bishop, D.V.M., & Nation, K. (in press) ''Orthographic facilitation in oral vocabulary acquisition'', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • Duff, F., Ricketts, J., & Taylor, J. (2008) ''From Theory to Practice in Reading Comprehension: A report from the ESRC'', Afasic Abstract Autumn 2008, 3-4.
  • Ricketts, J., & Border, P. (2008) 'Autism' A POSTnote produced by the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology Online <http://www.parliament.uk/documents/upload/postpn302.pdf>
  • Ricketts, J., Bishop, D.V.M., & Nation, K. (2008) ') 'Investigating orthographic and semantic aspects of word learning in poor comprehenders'', Journal of Research in Reading 31, 117-135.
  • Ricketts, J., Nation, K., & Bishop, D.V.M. (2007) ''Vocabulary is important for some, but not all reading skills'', Scientific Studies of Reading 11, 235-257.
  • Full list of publications (pdf, 55KB)