coe-staff: Reminder: Invited Colloquium - Third Candidate for the Open Rank Faculty Position in Special Education

[Emily Cornell]

Reminder re: Colloquium this Thursday, October 23.  See below for more information.  Light refreshments will be served.  Thanks.

The Special Education and Clinical Sciences (SPECS) Department is pleased to announce the following colloquium presentation by a candidate for the open rank, tenure-related position in Special Education, Department of Special Education and Clinical Sciences (SPECS).

Title:  Improving Reading Comprehension by Teaching the Structure Strategy in Schools


Dr. Bonnie Meyer, Professor, Pennsylvania State University

WHEN: October 23, 2014
PRESENTATION: 1:30 – 2:30 p.m.
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS: 2:30-3:00 p.m.
WHERE: 340 HEDCO Education Building

The presentation will start with a brief history of the structure strategy including theory, definitions, and examples.  Next, the basic design will be described for Intelligent Tutoring of the Structure Strategy (ITSS).  Finally, findings about ITSS will be summarized from two completed IES sponsored grants about ITSS (2003 – 2013 development & efficacy grants) and two ongoing development grants about extensions of ITSS (2012 – 2016).

Bonnie J. F. Meyer is an internationally recognized scholar in learning from nonfiction and reading comprehension.  Her master’s thesis provided the first incontrovertible evidence on the role of text structure in learning and remembering.  She pioneered research about the organization of expository text.  She has served as PI or co-PI on 4 NIH grants and 4 IES grants. The IES research focuses on development, efficacy, and extensions of web-based technology to improve reading comprehension of students in Grades 4 - 8.  For the IES grants she designed over 100 lessons about the text structure strategy that are the basis of the web-based instruction as well as individualized-adaptive lessons, rapid on-line assessment decisions and rubrics, evaluation materials, and scoring methods for humans and computers.  She is a Fellow in APA (Divisions 3, 15, & 20), APS, and AERA.


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Emily Cornell
Student Services Coordinator
Special Education and Clinical Sciences
340 HEDCO Education Building
541-346-1638

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