Expertise

Center personnel represent a variety of disciplines, certification areas, and fields of study. Contact us with your questions or requests for assistance related to particular aspects of literacy across the lifespan such as:

Language skills

• Oral language development
• Speech and audiology
• Multilingualism

Code-based skills

• Phonological awareness
• Phonics
• Fluency rate and accuracy

Meaning-based skills

• Prosodic reading
• Vocabulary
• Listening comprehension
• Reading comprehension
• Syntactic knowledge
• Theory of mind

Writing skills

• Handwriting
• Spelling
• Mechanics
• Grammar and syntax
• Written expression

Assessment

• Universal reading and writing screening
• Diagnostic assessments of reading and writing disabilities
• Progress monitoring of reading and writing development
• Curriculum-based measures of reading and writing
• Criterion-referenced tests of reading achievement
• Norm-referenced tests of reading skills
• Tests of teachers’ literacy knowledge

Specialty Areas

• Adult literacy
• Content area literacy
• Correctional education
• Dyslexia
• Dysgraphia
• Early literacy development
• High-quality instructional materials
• Literacy development in students who are D/deaf or hard of hearing
• Response to intervention for literacy

Personnel apply a variety of methodological and modern statistical approaches to answering questions about literacy development, instruction, and assessment. Contact us about your prospective studies related to:

• Determining what literacy instruction works, for whom, and under what circumstances
• Comparing literacy materials and practices
• Piloting literacy materials and practices
• Examining the technical adequacy of literacy assessments
• Determining contributors, mediators, and moderators of literacy outcomes
• Modeling student growth in literacy skills
• Evaluating programs for the purposes of improving them
• Iteratively developing literacy interventions
• Creating and validating formative assessments

Our statistical expertise includes:

• Multilevel growth curve modeling
• Propensity score matching
• Structural equation modeling with mediators and moderators
• Item response theory analysis
• G-theory analysis
• Meta-analysis
• Bayesian statistics

Center personnel are concerned not only with literacy research, but also with how to translate research into practice. Contact us to assist with implementation issues such as:

• Professional Development
  • Seminars
  • Coaching
  • Face-to-face
  • Asynchronous modules
  • Synchronous webinars
• Fidelity monitoring
• Feasibility
• Cost-benefit analysis
• Systemic improvement