Jill Jeffery
University Lecturer
- Name
- Dr. J.V. Jeffery
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 1513
- j.v.jeffery@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-5874-3048
Jill Jeffery is a university lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. Her research investigates academic writing development in secondary and postsecondary school settings by examining what “good writing” is and how it is taught and learned. Thus far, this work has led her to examine how competent writing is conceptualised in educational policies, academic standards, large-scale assessments, and teaching practices primarily in the context of US education systems. Increasingly, however, she is investigating how constructs of writing competence are articulated variously across the globe through comparative educational policy analyses. Her work ultimately aims to enrich students' opportunities to engage with the written word to construct knowledge, communicate complex ideas, and participate more meaningfully in civic, economic, and professional life.
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PhD candidates
Research
My research investigates academic writing development in secondary and postsecondary school settings by examining what “good writing” is and how it is taught and learned. Thus far, this work has led me to examine how competent writing is conceptualised in educational policies, academic standards, large-scale assessments, and teaching practices primarily in the context of US education systems. Increasingly, however, I am investigating how constructs of writing competence are articulated variously across the globe through comparative educational policy analyses. My work ultimately aims to enrich students' opportunities to engage with the written word to construct knowledge, communicate complex ideas, and participate more meaningfully in civic, economic, and professional life.
Curriculum vitae
| 2016-present | University Lecturer (English Language and Linguistics, Leiden University) |
| 2013-2016 | Assistant Professor (English Education, City University of New York) |
| 2011-2013 | Assistant Professor (Rhetoric and Writing, University of New Mexico) |
| 2010-2011 | Postdoctoral Researcher (English Education, New York University) |
| 2010 | PhD in English Education (New York University, with support from a National Academy of Education Predoctoral Research Fellowship) |
| 2000 | MA in English Education (University of Michigan) |
University Lecturer
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Univ Centre for Linguistics
- LUCL Engels
- Jeffery J.V. & Parr J.M. (Eds.) (2021), International Perspectives on Writing Curricula and Development: A Cross-Case Comparison. London: Routledge.
- Jeffery J.V. & Beuningen C. van (2020), Language education in the EU and the US: paradoxes and parallels, Prospects 48(3-4): 175–191.
- Jeffery J.V., Elf N., Skar G. & Wilcox K.W. (2018), Writing development and education standards in cross-national perspective, Writing & Pedagogy 10(3): .
- Bazerman C., Applebee A., Berninger V., Brandt D., Graham S., Jeffery J.V., Matsuda P.K., Murphy S., Rowe D., Schleppegrell M. & Wilcox K. (2017), The Lifespan Development of Writing. Urbana, IL: NCTE.
- Polleck J.N. & Jeffery J.V. (2017), Common Core Standards and their Impact on Standardized Test Design: A New York Case Study, High School Journal 101(1): 1-26.
- Jeffery J.V. & Wilcox K.C. (2016), L1 and L2 Adolescents’ Perspectives on Writing within and across Academic Disciplines: Examining the Role of Agency in Development, Writing & Pedagogy 8(2): 245-274.
- Wilcox K.C. & Jeffery J.V. (2016), Writing to the Common Core: Teachers’ responses to changes in standards for writing in elementary schools, Reading and Writing 29(5): 903-928.
- Wilcox K.C. & Jeffery J.V. (2015), Adolescent English learners’ stances toward disciplinary writing, English for Specific Purposes World 38: 44-56.
- Jeffery J.V. & Wilcox K.C. (2014), “How do I do it if I don’t like writing?”: Adolescents’ stances toward writing across disciplines, Reading and Writing 27(6): 1095-1117.
- Wilcox K.C. & Jeffery J.V. (2014), Adolescents’ writing in the content areas: National study results, Research in the Teaching of English 49(2): 168-176.
- Jeffery J.V., Kieffer M. & Matsuda P.K. (2013), Examining conceptions of writing in TESOL and English Education journals: Toward a more integrated framework for research addressing multilingual classrooms, Learning and Individual Differences 28: 181-192.
- Matsuda P.K. & Jeffery J.V. (2012), Voice in Student Essays. In: Hyland K. & Sancho-Guinda C. (Eds.), Stance and Voice in Written Academic Genres. New York: Palgrave Macmillon. 151-165.
- Jeffery J.V. (2011), Subjectivity, intentionality, and manufactured moves: Teachers’ perceptions of voice in the evaluation of secondary students’ writing, Research in the Teaching of English 46(1): 92-127.
- Beck S.W. & Jeffery J.V. (2009), Genre and thinking in academic writing tasks, Journal of Literacy Research 41(2): 228-272.
- Jeffery J.V. (2009), Constructs of writing proficiency in U.S. state and national writing assessments: Exploring variability, Assessing Writing 14(1): 3-24.
- Beck S.W. & Jeffery J.V. (2007), Genres of high-stakes writing assessments and the construct of writing competence, Assessing Writing 12(1): 60-79.