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2026

2025

Reflexive AI literacies: conceptualizing a model for learners’ critical engagement with generative AI

Sandra Schamroth Abrams, Thorkild Hanghøj · Pedagogies An International Journal

2024

A Meta-Framework for Conducting an Integrated Mixed Methods Autoethnography

Anthony John Onwuegbuzie, Madeline L. Abrams, Sandra Schamroth Abrams, Anna CohenMiller, Anthony Bambrola · Journal of Mixed Methods Research

Blending Voices and Methods: Exploring the Frontier of (Integrated) Mixed Methods Autoethnography

Anthony John Onwuegbuzie, Sandra Schamroth Abrams, Madeline L. Abrams · Journal of Mixed Methods Studies

IMAGINE Research of Transformational Assessment

Anthony John Onwuegbuzie, Elena E. Forzani, Sandra Schamroth Abrams · Caribbean Journal of Education and Development

The Role of Integrated Mixed Methods Autoethnography in Design-Based Research

Anthony John Onwuegbuzie, Sandra Schamroth Abrams · Journal of Mixed Methods Studies

Towards Integrated Mixed Methods Autoethnographic Approaches: A Dimensional and Poetic Journey

Anthony John Onwuegbuzie, Sandra Schamroth Abrams, Madeline L. Abrams, Anna CohenMiller, Anthony Bambrola · Journal of Mixed Methods Studies

2022

Adolescents, Adults, and Their Literacies: Child-Parent Research in Practice

Sandra Schamroth Abrams, Mary Beth Schaefer · Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy

Game-informed meaning making in U.S. math class

Sandra Schamroth Abrams · L1 Educational Studies in Language and Literature

Reimagining literacies through child–parent collaborations

Sandra Schamroth Abrams, Mary Beth Schaefer · Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy

Videogames in and beyond the L1 classroom

Sandra Schamroth Abrams, Thorkild Hanghøj · L1 Educational Studies in Language and Literature

2021

Back to the Future: A (Re)imagined Methodological Space

Elena E. Forzani, Sandra Schamroth Abrams, Anthony John Onwuegbuzie · Research in the Schools, 27(1), 99–118

Checked Out? Videogame Programming in U.S. Libraries and Implications for Videogame Literacies

Sandra Schamroth Abrams, Richard N. Van Eck · Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy

Dialogue is Anything but Silent: A Foreword to the Black Lives Matter Special Issue

Charlotte Abrams, Sandra Schamroth Abrams · International Journal of Multiple Research Approaches

Online Learning Challenges Experienced by University Students in the New York City Area During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Mixed Methods Study

Donald R. McClure, Emmanuel Oluseun Ojo, Mary Beth Schaefer, David Bell, Sandra Schamroth Abrams, Anthony John Onwuegbuzie · International Journal of Multiple Research Approaches

Pandemic meaning making: messing toward motet

Mary Beth Schaefer, Sandra Schamroth Abrams, Molly Kurpis, Charlotte Abrams, Madeline L. Abrams · English Teaching Practice & Critique

2020

“Making the Unusual Usual:” Students’ Perspectives and Experiences of Learning at Home during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Mary Beth Schaefer, Sandra Schamroth Abrams, Molly Kurpis, Madeline L. Abrams, Charlotte Abrams · Middle Grades Review

2019

Adolescents’ Digital Literacies in Flux: Intersections of Voice, Empowerment, and Practices

Sandra Schamroth Abrams, Mary Beth Schaefer, Daniel Ness · Journal of Media Literacy Education

Gamification and accessibility

Keyonda Smith, Sandra Schamroth Abrams · International Journal of Information and Learning Technology

2017

Belonging in a Videogame Space: Bridging Affinity Spaces and Communities of Practice

Sandra Schamroth Abrams, Jayne C. Lammers · Teachers College Record

Emotionally Crafted Experiences: Layering Literacies in Minecraft

Sandra Schamroth Abrams · The Reading Teacher

Virtual Convergence: Exploring Culture and Meaning in Playscapes

Sandra Schamroth Abrams, Jennifer Rowsell, Guy Merchant · Teachers College Record

2016

Layered Literacies: Layered Perspectives of Adolescent Literacies

Erica Holan Lucci, Sandra Schamroth Abrams, Hannah R. Gerber · The ALAN Review

2015

Layered Literacies Layering Meaning across Literate Practices

Sandra Schamroth Abrams, Hannah R. Gerber · The ALAN Review

Layering Literacies and Contemporary Learning

Sandra Schamroth Abrams, Michael P. Russo · Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy

2014

Demystifying Digitalk

Kristen Hawley Turner, Sandra Schamroth Abrams, Elvira K. Katić, Meredith Jeta Donovan · Journal of Literacy Research

EJ in Focus: Cross-Literate Digital Connections: Contemporary Frames for Meaning Making

Sandra Schamroth Abrams, Hannah R. Gerber · The English Journal

From Mario to FIFA: what qualitative case study research suggests about games-based learning in a US classroom

Hannah R. Gerber, Sandra Schamroth Abrams, Anthony John Onwuegbuzie, Cindy L. Benge · Educational Media International

Gamified Vocabulary

Sandra Schamroth Abrams, Sara Walsh · Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy

2013

(Re)Designing literacies: What an ethnographic study of videogame spaces in library environments can tell us about youth literacy practices

Sandra Schamroth Abrams, Hannah R. Gerber

Achieving through the Feedback Loop: Videogames, Authentic Assessment, and Meaningful Learning

Sandra Schamroth Abrams, Hannah R. Gerber · The English Journal

2012

Powerful Gaming Structures and Practices: Videogames, Situated Language, and Cultural Contexts

Sandra Schamroth Abrams · Languages and Linguistics, 29, 29–61

Video gaming and interconnected meanings: Nuanced learning beyond the screen

Sandra Schamroth Abrams · International Review of Contemporary Learning Research

2011

(Re)conceptualizing I/identity: An Introduction

Jennifer Rowsell, Sandra Schamroth Abrams · Teachers College Record

Dynamic Learning In Virtual Spaces: Producers And Consumers Of Meaning

Sandra Schamroth Abrams, Jennifer Rowsell · Journal on School Educational Technology

2009

A gaming frame of mind: digital contexts and academic implications

Sandra Schamroth Abrams · Educational Media International

Book Chapters & Encyclopedia Entries

2026

Adolescent Voices, Qualitative Tensions, and YA Literature: Reimagining Child-Parent Research for Classroom Co-Inquiry

Sandra Schamroth Abrams, Mary Beth Schaefer · The Oxford Handbook of Young Adult Literature (Oxford University Press)

Postdigital videogames literacies: thinking with, through, and beyond James Gee’s learning principles

Alexander Bacalja, T. Philip Nichols, Bradley Robinson, Ibrar Bhatt, Stefan Kucharczyk, Chris Zomer, Brady Lee Nash, Bruno Dupont, Rozane De Cock, Bieke Zaman, Maude Bonenfant, Eva Grosemans, Sandra Schamroth Abrams, Carmen Vallis, Dimitrios Koutsogiannis, Gideon Dishon, Jack Reed, Thomas Byers, Rania Magdi Fawzy, Hsiao Ping Hsu, Nathan Lowien, Georgina McFarlane Barton, Jon Callow, Zirui Liu, Frank Serafini, Zowi Vermeire, Jonathan William deHaan, Alison Croasdale, Ángel Luis Torres-Toukoumidis, Xiao Xu, Karoline Schnaider · Gaming in a Postdigital World: Towards New Understandings for Learning (Springer)

2023

“We’re Still Trying to Figure Out Every Single Day”: Teaching since COVID-19

Maxine Cameron, Sandra Schamroth Abrams · Teachers and Teaching Post-COVID: Seizing Opportunities for Change (Routledge)

2022

A Tale of Inherent Integration

Sandra Schamroth Abrams, Richard N. Van Eck · The Routledge Handbook for Advancing Integration in Mixed Methods Research

2021

Game-Informed Cooperative Assessments and Socially Responsible Learning in Public School Math Classes

Sandra Schamroth Abrams · Esports Research and Its Integration in Education (IGI Global)

Nonverbal Communication Analysis as Mixed Analysis

Anthony John Onwuegbuzie, Sandra Schamroth Abrams · The Routledge Reviewer's Guide to Mixed Methods Analysis

Videogames, Feedback Loops, and Classroom Practice

Sandra Schamroth Abrams, Hannah R. Gerber · Teaching in the Game-Based Classroom (Routledge)

2020

Play in the Making: Developing a Range of Literacies through Making and Game-Based Activities

Sandra Schamroth Abrams, Thomas LaRocca · Maker Literacies and Maker Identities in the Digital Age (Routledge)

2019

Immateriality Redux: Tacit Modalities and Meaning Across Timescales

Sandra Schamroth Abrams, Jennifer Rowsell · Negotiating Place and Space in Digital Literacies: Research and Practice (Emerald)

2018

2017

Cooperative Competition, Reflective Communication, and Social Awareness in Public High School Math Classes

Sandra Schamroth Abrams · Game-Based Learning: Theory, Strategies and Performance Outcomes (Nova)

Literacies, An Introduction

Sandra Schamroth Abrams, Bill Cope, Mary Kalantzis · Springer

Mixed Methods Research

Anthony John Onwuegbuzie, Hannah R. Gerber, Sandra Schamroth Abrams · The International Encyclopedia of Communication Research Methods

Multiliteracies: Meaning-Making and Learning in the Era of Digital Text

Bill Cope, Mary Kalantzis, Sandra Schamroth Abrams · Remixing Multiliteracies: Theory and Practice from New London to New Times (Teachers College Press)

Videogaming and Literacies

Sandra Schamroth Abrams · Springer

2015

Digital Resources, Reflexive Pedagogy, and Empowered Learning

Sandra Schamroth Abrams · A Pedagogy of Multiliteracies: Learning by Design (Palgrave Macmillan)

Digital Storytelling: A Tool to Develop Preservice Teachers’ Cross-Literate Reflections

Nancy P. Morabito, Sandra Schamroth Abrams · Video Research in Disciplinary Literacies (Emerald)

Videogames and Literacies: Historical Threads and Contemporary Practices

Sandra Schamroth Abrams · The Routledge Handbook of Literacy Studies

Zombies, Boys, and Videogames: Problems and Possibilities in an Assessment Culture

Sandra Schamroth Abrams · Generation Z: Zombies, Popular Culture and Educating Youth (Springer)

2013

The Dynamics of Video Gaming

Sandra Schamroth Abrams · Design and Implementation of Educational Games: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives (IGI Global)

2012

Digital Narratives by Digital Natives: Online Inquiry and Reflective Practices in a Third Space

Sandra Schamroth Abrams · Becoming a Teacher: Using Narrative as Reflective Practice

Digital Worlds and Shifting Borders: Popular Culture, Perception, and Pedagogy

Sandra Schamroth Abrams, Hannah R. Gerber, Melissa L. Burgess · New Media Literacies and Participatory Popular Culture Across Borders (Routledge)

Videogaming and Education: Key Elements that Foster Active Learning and Critical Thinking

Sandra Schamroth Abrams · Literacy and Education: Understanding the New Literacy Studies in the Classroom

2011

Video Games in the Classroom

Sandra Schamroth Abrams · Playful Teaching, Learning Games (Sense)

Editorials, Introductions & Edited Issues

2026

Diverse needs and diverse contexts: situating and extending research of educational media

Sandra Schamroth Abrams, Hannah R. Gerber · Educational Media International

2025

Contemporary technologies and educational implications: evolving practices and global perspectives

Sandra Schamroth Abrams, Hannah R. Gerber · Educational Media International

Honoring the past, celebrating the present, and looking to the future

Hannah R. Gerber, Sandra Schamroth Abrams · Educational Media International

2021

Min(e)d the Label: An Introduction to Methodologists, Who Needs ‘Em?

Sandra Schamroth Abrams, Elena E. Forzani, Anthony John Onwuegbuzie · Research in the Schools, 27(1)

2019

Introduction to the Special Issue: Ethics and Innovative Pedagogies

Sandra Schamroth Abrams · Ubiquitous Learning An International Journal

2011

Rethinking identity and literacy education in the 21st century

Sandra Schamroth Abrams, Jennifer Rowsell · Teachers College Record / NSSE Yearbook 110(1), edited volume

Conference Papers

2023

Gaming and Literacies: Implications for Equitable Futures

Thorkild Hanghøj, Sandra Schamroth Abrams, Kristine Kabel, Signe Hannibal Jensen, and others · American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL (symposium)

2020

State of Play: Video Game Programming and Characteristics in U.S. Libraries

Sandra Schamroth Abrams · American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting (AERA)

2017

Empowered Literacy Processes: Young Adolescents Co-Researching their Digital and Nondigital Practices

Sandra Schamroth Abrams, Mary Beth Schaefer, Daniel Ness, Charlotte Abrams, Molly Kurpis, Eric A. Ness · Literacy Research Association Annual Conference, Tampa, FL

2014

University-Industry Partnership in e-Learning Tools Development and Implementation

Xiaojun Chen, Michael Downtown, Sandra Schamroth Abrams · E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning (AACE)

2013

A Wealth of Modal Shifts: Reconsidering Directionality and Cross-Modal Understandings of Virtual and Place-Based Practices

Sandra Schamroth Abrams · American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA

2009

Keeping an Eye on the Game: Video Gaming, Visual Literacy, and Cultural Identity

Sandra Schamroth Abrams · 3rd Global Conference: Visual Literacies