Announcement of Webinar on Adult Literacy Research Center

Introduction to the Center for the Study of Adult Literacy

Free Webinar Event: Thursday, March 7, 2013, 2:30 - 3:30 PM EST

In September of 2012, the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences (IES) awarded funding for a five-year research center for adult literacy. This center is dedicated to study adults who read between the third and eighth grade levels. Three major research projects will occur over the next 5 years focusing on exploring underlying cognitive and motivational processes that contribute to or impede reading development, testing the adequacy of commonly used reading related assessments with adult learners, and developing and evaluating a multi-component instructional program to help learners improve their reading and comprehension skills.

Learn more about the activities, goals and timelines in a national webinar to be held on Thursday, March 7th from 2:30-3:30 Eastern Time. The Principal Investigators of the Center will discuss their assessment battery and their approach toward developing and piloting a reading intervention for ABE Learners.


Please register at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2GMFSHY   Registration is limited!

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Presenters:
Principal Investigator:
Daphne Greenberg, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Georgia State University, Department of Educational Psychology and Special Education

Co-Principal Investigators:
Maureen W. Lovett, Ph.D., Professor of Pediatrics, University of Toronto, and Senior Scientist, The Hospital for Sick Children
Art Graesser, Ph.D., Professor, The University of Memphis, Department of Psychology and the  Institute for Intelligent Systems
Jan C. Frijters, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Brock University, Hospital for Sick Children

Questions? Please contact Dawn Davis at: ddavis2@gsu.edu