Maria D. LaRusso

Teachers as Builders of Respectful School Climates: Implications for Adolescent Drug Use Norms and Depressive Symptoms in High School

Maria D. LaRusso, Daniel Römer, Robert L. Selman · Journal of Youth and Adolescence · 2007 · 292 citations

Respectful School Climates, Substance Use, Adolescent Behavioral Health +16

Improving classroom quality: Teacher influences and experimental impacts of the 4rs program.

Joshua L. Brown, Stephanie M. Jones, Maria D. LaRusso et al. · Journal of Educational Psychology · 2010 · 266 citations

Teacher-student Relation, Education, Psychology +18

Contributions of Academic Language, Perspective Taking, and Complex Reasoning to Deep Reading Comprehension

Maria D. LaRusso, Ha Yeon Kim, Robert L. Selman et al. · Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness · 2016 · 157 citations

Multilingualism, Deep Reading Comprehension, Language Education +23

Engaging Struggling Adolescent Readers to Improve Reading Skills

James S. Kim, Lowry Hemphill, Margaret Troyer et al. · Reading Research Quarterly · 2016 · 105 citations

Language Development, Education, Literacy Development +17

Experimental Effects of Word Generation on Vocabulary, Academic Language, Perspective Taking, and Reading Comprehension in High-Poverty Schools

Stephanie M. Jones, Maria D. LaRusso, James J. Kim et al. · Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness · 2019 · 105 citations