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José A. Montelongo, Ph.D., M.L.I.S.

College of Education Librarian

Professional Responsibilities

• Collaborate with faculty in the College of Education and Liberal Studies department in providing information literacy instruction.
• Collaborate with faculty in the College of Education and Liberal Studies department in maintaining a valuable print and online library.
• Collaborate with faculty Collaborate with faculty in the College of Education and Liberal Studies department in conducting empirical research.
• Collaborate with faculty in the College of Education and Liberal Studies department in soliciting grant opportunities.

Higher Education

New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM Ph.D. in Education, Curriculum and Instruction, 2002

University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX M.L.I.S. in Library and Information Science, 1995

University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso TX M. Ed. in Education, Curriculum and Instruction, 1988

University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX B.S. in Psychology, 1976

New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM Graduate Studies in Educational Leadership, 2003 – 2004

Indiana University, Bloomington, IN Doctoral Studies in Cognitive Psychology, 1978 – 1982

University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX Graduate Studies in General Experimental Psychology, 1976 – 1978

Scholarly Publications

Montelongo, J. A. (forthcoming). The school librarian as literacy player. Texas Library Journal.

Montelongo, J. A. and Hernández, A. C. (forthcoming). Reinforcing expository reading and writing skills: A more versatile sentence completion task. The Reading Teacher.

Montelongo, J. A., Berber-Jiménez, L, Hernández, A. C., and Hosking, D. (2006).A vocabulary activity to reinforce text structure fluency in a science class. The Science Teacher, 73, 28-31.

Montelongo, J. A. (2004). Reinforcing student's knowledge of expository paragraph structures through sentence completion exercises. New Mexico Journal of Reading, 24, 14-22.

Conference Presentations

To see a list of recent and upcoming presentations, please view my Conference Presentations page.

Research Interests

• Learning and Memory for Spanish-English Cognates
• Reading Comprehension
• School Librarianship and Instruction
• Psychology of Learning and Forgetting