Professor Pamela Snow
La Trobe University Distinguished Professor (Cognitive Psychology) & Co-Director, Science of Language and Reading (SOLAR) Lab, School of Education, La Trobe University, Australia.
The Snow Report: pamelasnow.blogspot.com.au
- Parents of children flagged as “needs additional support” on #NAPLAN don’t need platitudes and rationalisations. They need a clear, evidence-informed action plan with accountability wrapped around it. pamelasnow.blogspot.com/2025/07/napl...
- Cogntive Load Theory doesn’t matter. New Snow Report blogpost. pamelasnow.blogspot.com/2025/07/cogn...
- It’s not enough to say that #NAPLAN data isn’t getting worse over time. It should be improving (it’s not) and we should be closing equity gaps (we’re not). This is our #OpenAccess response to a 2024 paper by Dr Sally Larsen (Uni of New England). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
- It’s not enough that #NAPLAN data is not worsening over time. It should be improving and we should be closing gaps for equity groups. This open access paper is our response to a 2024 paper by Dr Sally Larsen claiming “nothing to see here”. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
- With the proof copy marked up for final edits, our forthcoming magnum opus is a step closer.
- On July 23 we’ll again start our popular La Trobe online Intro to the Science of Language & Reading 4-week short course. This is fully flexible and discounts apply for schools enrolling 10 or more staff (or all staff in the case of very small schools). shortcourses.latrobe.edu.au/the-science-...
- A big day for the La Trobe SOLAR Lab team yesterday. We conferred an Honorary Doctorate on @ehanford.bsky.social and welcomed @smithre5.bsky.social into the PhD fold. With @tserry2504.bsky.social and Joanna Barbousas 🌻
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- A thoughtful and well argued piece about ability grouping Vs differentiation in reading instruction. playberrylaser.com.au/articles/pla...
- Reposted by Professor Pamela SnowOpen access paper on 246 Swedish adolescents with #DevLangDis and their caregivers: Predictors of academic achievement and educational support for adolescents with developmental language disorder (DLD) #SLPeeps doi.org/10.1177/0265...
- Reposted by Professor Pamela SnowAnother day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.
