Grants & Awards

The purpose of this project is to develop Literacy Study Group (LSG), a web-based professional development intervention designed to assist special education teachers in delivering high-quality reading instruction to elementary school students with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD).

I-SPEAK is a preschool measure in English and Spanish that leverages a variety of interactive storybook narratives with embedded assessment prompts. It seeks to capture key developmental domains through stealth assessment techniques that honor children’s interests, experiences, and natural curiosity.

Middle School Intervention Project (MSIP) is an evaluation study of the effectiveness of a comprehensive intervention targeting reading intervention, school engagement, and data-based decision-making.

This implementation science project aims to improve both decoding and reading comprehension outcomes for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The project will create a conceptually coherent collection of texts, including decodable texts, to use during literacy instructional routines.

In recent years, Morocco has made great improvements in advancing quality education.
The research team will refine and validate a reading comprehension assessment originally designed for third- to fifth-grade readers for use with postsecondary students.
This project will develop and refine a computer-adaptive version of MOCCA (Multiple-choice Online Cloze Comprehension Assessment), an existing reading comprehension measure for third- through fifth-grade readers. MOCCA helps distinguish between students who make one of two common comprehension errors.
MOCCA (Multiple-choice Online Cloze Comprehension Assessment) is a measurement study targeting the assessment of reading comprehension processes among intermediate grade students.