{"id":29419,"date":"2017-07-17T12:52:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T16:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=29419"},"modified":"2025-11-26T18:30:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T23:30:05","slug":"elena-forzani","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/profile\/elena-forzani\/","title":{"rendered":"Elena Forzani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Elena Forzani is director of the Literacy Education and Reading &amp; Literacies Education programs and an assistant professor at Boston University Wheelock College of Education &amp; Human Development. Dr. Forzani\u2019s research centers on using multiple and mixed methods to understand and support digital literacies practices across the elementary and secondary levels. In particular, her work investigates the cognitive, metacognitive, and motivational dimensions of online reading, and especially how readers evaluate the credibility of online information. Through this work, Dr. Forzani seeks to inform the design of equity-oriented instruction and assessment environments.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Forzani was the assistant research director for PIRLS and ePIRLS, international print and digital reading assessments. She is a former first grade and high school English and reading teacher, as well as a former literacy specialist. Her scholarship has been published in multiple researcher and practitioner journals, including <em>Reading Research Quarterly<\/em>, <em>Computers in Human Behavior<\/em>, <em>Computers &amp; Education Open<\/em>, <em>The Reading Teacher<\/em>, and <em>The Journal of Adolescent &amp; Adult Literacy<\/em>. Dr. Forzani currently serves on the NAEP Standing Reading Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Pronouns: she\/her<\/p>\n<h3>Recent News<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2025\/scholarly-accomplishments-december-2025\/\">Scholarly Accomplishments, December 2025<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2025\/scholarly-accomplishments-november-2025\/\">Scholarly Accomplishments, November 2025<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2025\/scholarly-accomplishments-september-2025\/\">Scholarly Accomplishments, September 2025<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/magazine\/articles\/2023\/the-machines-are-coming\/\">The Machines Are Coming<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2020\/bu-wheelock-announces-fall-2020-faculty-award-winners\/\">BU Wheelock Announces Fall Faculty Award Winners<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"profile-section-label\">In the Media<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/culture\/419070\/childhood-literacy-college-students-reading-crisis-ai\">The Truth Behind the Endless &#8220;Kids Can&#8217;t Read&#8221; Discourse<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.edweek.org\/teaching-learning\/opinion-a-focus-on-phonics-or-comprehension-what-reading-research-should-look-like-in-practice\/2023\/08\">A Focus on Phonics or Comprehension? What Reading Research Should Look Like in Practice<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":11825,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/29419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11825"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/29419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85696,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/29419\/revisions\/85696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}