College of Education, Sport, and Human SciencesMichael Dunn

Michael Dunn

  1. Professor
  2. Special Education and Literacy
Email Addressdunnmi@wsu.edu
LocationVUB 331
Phone360-546-9662

Biography

Research Interests

Dr. Michael Dunn’s research focuses on helping children and adults improve their writing skills with strategies (e.g., ideas for planning, organizing ideas, drafting text, and making edits/revisions) and technology tools, including generative artificial intelligence (genAI). Dr. Dunn continues to work with colleagues to develop the SkribaTools writing strategy website hub.

Teaching Experiences

Dr. Michael Dunn has taught children from kindergarten to grade 12 with a focus on writing and reading across subject areas. Teaching areas have included Special Education, second-language education, and curriculum/assessment coordinator. At Washington State University, Dr. Michael Dunn teaches courses at the undergraduate, master’s and doctoral levels.

Recent Research

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles Published/In Print 

  • Dunn, M. (2025). Programming for students who struggle with writing: How strategy instruction, technology and assessment can promote students’ writing improvement. Advances in Mobile Learning Educational Research, 5(2), 1463-1471. https://doi.org/10.25082/AMLER.2025.02.004
  • Therrien, W. J., Wong, V. C., Chen, L., Taylor, C. M., Chiu, J. L., Gonçalves, B., Liu, Q., Cook, B. G., Doabler, C. T., Swanson, E., Brame, P. B., Budin, S., Cho, E., Conway, S. J., Davis, K. M., Dunn, M. W., Faggella-Luby, M. N., Gersib, J., Jimenez, Z., Murnan, R., et al., Stinchcomb, H. R. (2025; Accepted/In Press). National survey of 4th and 5th grade science education teachers: Insights into instruction and inclusion of students with disabilities. Science Education. Science Education
  • Dunn, M., Olson, W., Otoikhian, A., Anderson, J., Yuan, W. , & Gregory, K.  (2025). Mobile Technologies: Undergraduate STEM Students’ Perspectives about Webtools for Writing. Advances in Mobile Learning Educational Research, 5(1), 1314- 1327. Mobile Technologies

Conference Presentations

  • Dunn, M. (2025, March 10-12). Project SkribaTools: Developing an open-source website of resources to support students’ writing skills. [Multi-presentation session]. II ELN Literacy Summit, Cologne, Germany.
  • Dunn, M. (2024). Project ImproveWRITING: Undergraduate students and instructors’ perspectives on writing webtools [Poster or multi-presentation session]. Council for Exceptional Children’s 2024 Annual Convention, San Antonio, Texas, United States.
  • Dunn, M., Poppen, M., Sheftel, A., & Xue, Y. (2024, March 13-16). Promoting positive outcomes for transition-aged students: Strategies and practices [Poster or multi-presentation session]. Council for Exceptional Children’s 2024 Annual Convention, San Antonio, Texas, United States.

Educational background

  • Ph.D. Special Education/Language Education, Indiana University, Bloomington, 2005
  • M.A.Ed. Literacy Education, Mt. St. Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2002
  • B.A./B.Ed. Second-Language Education/Political Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1991