José A. Montelongo, Ph.D., M.L.I.S.
I present at many conferences around the country. To see a list of recent and upcoming conferences, see my Conference Presentations page.
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. (2004). Reinforcing student's knowledge of expository paragraph structures through sentence completion exercises. New Mexico Journal of Reading, 23, 14 – 22.
Montelongo, J. A. (2006). School librarians as literacy players: Vocabulary worksheets to reinforce text structure knowledge. Texas Library Journal, 82(1), 22 – 27.
Montelongo, J.A. (2007) Information Literacy: Creating modules for summarizing and evaluating quantitative studies in education and psychology. In Ury, C.J., Baudino, F. and Park, S. J. (Eds.), Brick & Click Libraries: Proceedings of an American Library Symposium, 108 – 123.
Montelongo, J. A. (2008). Process Text Guides for Summarizing and Evaluating Empirical Studies. College & Undergraduate Libraries, 15(3), pp. 378 – 397.
Montelongo, J.A. Text Guides: Scaffolding Summarization and Fortifying Reading Skills. International Journal of Learning. 15(7), 289 – 296.
Montelongo, J. A., Berber-Jiménez, L, Hernández, A. C., & Hosking, D. (2006). A vocabulary activity to reinforce text structure fluency in a science class. Science Teacher, 73(2), 28 – 31.
Montelongo, J.A. and Brar, N. Information Literacy Skills for Education Students: "One-Shot" Library Sessions. Texas Library Journal 84(3), 97 – 101.
Montelongo, J. A. and Hernández, A. C. (2007). Reinforcing expository reading and writing skills: A more versatile sentence completion task. The Reading Teacher, 60(6), 538 – 546.
Berber-Jiménez, L., Montelongo, J.A., Hernández, A.C., Herter, R. & Hosking, D. (2008). Teaching the writing of conclusions in lab reports using the sentence completion task. The Science Teacher, 75, 34-39.
Montelongo, J. A., Hernández, A.C., and Herter, R. (forthcoming). How many Baseball Cards Does Jimmy Have? Teaching Structures to Solve Word Problems. The California Reader.
Montelongo, J. A. (forthcoming). Front-Loading Vocabulary and Content Area Matter for ELL Students. New Mexico Journal of Reading.
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
