Ruth Piker

- Early Childhood Education and Development

- Second Language Acquisition of Spanish-primary preschool-age children

- Influences of social interaction on young children's development

- Ethnography and qualitative methods

- Head Start related issues

- Piker, R. A. (2006). What does it mean to build conceptual knowledge? In L.A. Rex (Ed.), Discourse of opportunities: How talk in learning situations creates and constrains (pp. 267-295). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press Inc.

- Meisels, S. J., & Piker, R. (2001). An analysis of early literacy assessments used for instruction (Tech. Rep.). Ann Arbor, MI: Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement (CIERA).