John T. Guthrie

John Taylor Guthrie is a researcher and scholar in the area of student motivation as it relates to literacy.

Education Guthrie attended Westtown School. He received his bachelor's degree in psychology from Earlham College in 1964, where he also spent a year abroad at the University of London. He earned both h is master's and doctoral degrees from the College of Education at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he majored in educational psychology, completing his Ph.D. in 1968. While attending the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Guthrie worked as a research assistant from 1964 to 1968.

Career Guthrie began his post-doctoral career as an assistant professor of education and project director of the Center for Social Organization of Schools at Johns Hopkins University from 1968 to 1970, after which he moved into the role of assistant professor of pediatrics at Johns Hopkins until 1974.

In 1992, Guthrie also became the co-director of the National Reading Research Center at the University of Maryland, College Park, a role he retained until his retirement in 1997.

CORI (concept-oriented reading instruction) The Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI) framework integrates the science (or social studies) into literacy instruction, using activities and content-area reading to motivate students to read, write, and think more deeply. His research indicates greater gains in motivation, engagement, and reading achievement for students exposed to the CORI framework as opposed to control groups. National Reading Conference Chair, Fellows Committee, Educational Psychology, Division 15, American Psychological Association, 1993–95 University of Illinois, Distinguished Alumni Award, 2006 University of Maryland, College of Education Scholarship Award, 2006 University of Maryland, Inaugural Jean Mullan Professor of Literacy, 2006–2008 Fellow, American Educational Research Association (AERA Fellows Program), 2008 Elected to the National Academy of Education (NAEd), 2011

Collaborators and co-authors Allan Wigfield

Publications Books (authored or co-authored) Guthrie, J. T. & Siefert, M. (1984). Measuring readership: Rationale and technique. Paris: Unesco. (English, Spanish, French).

Books (edited) Guthrie J. T. (Ed.). (1976). Aspects of reading acquisition. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. Guthrie, J. T. (Ed.). (1977). Cognition, curriculum, and comprehension. Newark, Delaware: International Reading Association. Guthrie, J. T. (Ed.). (1983). Comprehension and teaching: Research reviews. Newark, Delaware: International Reading Association. Guthrie, J. T. (Ed.). (1984). "Reading" by William S. Gray: A research retrospective, 1881–1941. Newark, Delaware: International Reading Association.

Books (co-edited) Pressley, M., Harris, K., & Guthrie, J. (Eds.). (1992). Promoting academic competence and literacy in school. San Diego: Academic. Guthrie, J. T., & Wigfield, A. (Eds.). (1997). Reading engagement: Motivating readers through integrated instruction. Newark, Delaware: International Reading Association. Guthrie, J. T., & Alvermann, D. E. (Eds.). (1999). Engaged reading: Processes, practices, and policy implications. New York: Teachers College Press. Baker, L., Dreher, M. J., & Guthrie, J. T. (Eds.). (2000). Engaging young readers. New York: Guilford. Guthrie, J. T., Wigfield, A., & Perencevich, K. C. (Ed.). (2004). Motivating reading comprehension: Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction. Mahwah, New Jersey: Erlbaum. Guthrie, J. T. (2008). Engaging adolescents in reading. Thousand Oaks, California: Corwin Press. Guthrie, J. T., Wigfield, A., & Klauda, S. L. (2012). Adolescents' engagement in academic literacy (Report No. 7). Retrieved November 10, 2012 from www.corilearning.com/research-publications