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Appendix A
Biographical Sketches of
Committee Members and Staff
Alan M. Lesgold (Chair) is dean of the School of Education at the Uni-
versity of Pittsburgh. Prior to this position, he served as the executive as-
sociate director of the Learning Research and Development Center at the
University of Pittsburgh from 1997 to 2000. Other previous positions at
the University of Pittsburgh include professor of psychology and intelligent
systems, codirector of the Graduate Program in Intelligent Systems Studies
and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Director of the Learning Skills
Research Unit at the Research and Development Center. He is a fellow of
the American Psychological Association (APA) Divisions of Experimental
Psychology, Applied Experimental and Engineering Psychology, and Educa-
tional Psychology. He was secretary/treasurer of the Cognitive Science So-
ciety from 1988 to 1997 and continues to serve on its board of governors.
In 1995, he was awarded the Educom Medal by Educom and the APA for
contributions to educational technology. With colleagues, he developed a
technology of intelligently coached learning-by-doing over the period from
1986 to 1999. More recently, he and colleagues developed a technology
for supporting rich collaborative engagement of students and professionals
with complex issues and complex bodies of knowledge, including profes-
sional development for teachers. He is a national associate of the National
Research Council of the National Academies and was a member of the
Board on Testing and Assessment from 1993 through 1998. He has a Ph.D.
in psychology from Stanford University (1971).
Karen S. Cook is the Ray Lyman Wilbur professor of sociology, director of
the Institute for Social Science Research (IRiSS), and vice provost for fac-
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ulty development and diversity at Stanford University. Her current research
focuses on social exchange theory and issues of trust in social relations
and networks. She has studied power-dependence relations and physician-
patient trust, including how interactions between physicians and patients
with different racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds affect health out-
comes. She is the coeditor of the Russell Sage Foundation Trust Series and
has published on trust in the series (Cooperation Without Trust?, eTrust:
Forming Relationships in the Online World, and Whom Do You Trust?).
She is the coeditor of the Annual Review of Sociology, and in 2004, she
received the American Sociological Association’s Cooley-Mead Award for
Career Contributions to Social Psychology. She was a fellow at the Center
for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (1998-1999) and was elected
to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996 and the National
Academy of Sciences in 2007. She has a Ph.D. in sociology from Stanford
University.
Aydin Yücesan Durgunoğlu is professor of psychology at the University of
Minnesota, Duluth. She conducts research on the literacy development of
adults and children in both monolingual and multilingual contexts, includ-
ing among Spanish- and Hmong-speaking adults. Her work has focused
on cross-linguistic transfer and the cognitive underpinnings of spoken and
written language development. She has coedited two books on literacy
development in multilingual contexts. She was one of the developers of the
Mother Child Education Foundation’s adult literacy program in Turkey.
This program has been implemented in 18 provinces and has reached over
100,000 people in the last 15 years. She and her colleagues have been con-
tinuously evaluating and revising the program and are currently developing
its web-based version. The program won a UNESCO King Sejong Literacy
Prize in 2006. She serves as an associate editor of Applied Psycholinguistics.
She has a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Purdue University.
Arthur C. Graesser is professor of experimental and cognitive psychology,
adjunct professor in computer science, and codirector of the Institute of
Intelligent Systems at the University of Memphis. His primary research
interests are in cognitive science, discourse processing, and the learning
sciences. More specific interests include knowledge representation, question
asking and answering, tutoring, text comprehension, inference generation,
conversation, reading, education, memory, emotions, computational lin-
guistics, artificial intelligence, and human-computer interaction. He served
as editor of the journal Discourse Processes (1996-2005) and is the current
editor of Journal of Educational Psychology (2009-2014). In addition to
publishing many articles in journals, books, and conference proceedings, he
has written two books and edited nine books (including Handbook of Dis-
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course Processes and Handbook of Metacognition in Education). He and
his colleagues have designed, developed, and tested software in learning,
language, and discourse technologies, including AutoTutor, Auto-Tutor-
Lite, MetaTutor, GuruTutor, HURA Advisor, SEEK Web Tutor, Operation
ARIES!, Coh-Metrix, Question Understanding Aid (QUAID), QUEST, and
Point & Query. He has a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Cali-
fornia, San Diego.
Steve Graham is the Currey-Ingram professor of special education and lit-
eracy at Vanderbilt Peabody College. His research interests include learning
disabilities, writing instruction and writing development, and the develop-
ment of self-regulation. He is the past editor of Exceptional Children and
Contemporary Educational Psychology. He is the coauthor of the Hand-
book of Writing Research, Handbook of Learning Disabilities, Writing
Better, and Making the Writing Process Work. He is also the lead author
of an Institute of Education Sciences’s practice guide (under development)
on effective writing for students in the elementary grades. In 2001, he was
elected a fellow of the International Academy for Research in Learning
Disabilities. He is the recipient of career research awards from the Council
for Exceptional Children and Special Education Research Interest Group
in the American Educational Research Association. He has an an Ed.D. in
special education from the University of Kansas.
Noel Gregg is distinguished research professor at the University of Geor-
gia. She is a faculty member in the Department of Psychology and the
Department of Communication Sciences and Special Education, as well as
the director of the Regents’ Center for Learning Disorders. Her areas of
specialization include adolescents and adults with learning disabilities and
attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD), accommodations, alterna-
tive media, assessment, written language disorders, and test validity. She
has been a national expert witness for several key legal cases pertaining to
accommodating adults with learning disabilities and AD/HD on high-stakes
tests. She has published four books, including Assessing and Accommodat-
ing the Adolescent and Adult Populations with Learning Disabilities and
AD/HD, as well as numerous scientific articles and book chapters. She has
a Ph.D. in communication disorders from Northwestern University.
Joyce L. Harris is associate professor in the Communication Sciences and
Disorders Department at the University of Texas at Austin and director
of the Language and Cognitive Aging Laboratory. Her current research
involves the study of text comprehension in aging, particularly the com-
prehension of text-based health information. Harris teaches courses in
acquired neurogenic language disorders in adults and the sociocultural
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bases of communication. She is coeditor of, and chapter contributor to,
Literacy in African American Communities. Other print scholarship focuses
on normal and disordered communicative process across the human life
span. Harris has served as an associate editor for language for the Journal
of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, chair of the National Black
Association for Speech-Language and Hearing’s board of directors, and
as a member of the publication board of the American Speech-Language-
Hearing Association, of which she is a fellow and life member. Harris
holds a Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology
(CC-SLP) from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, and
a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin.
Glynda A. Hull is professor of education in language, literacy, and cul-
ture at the University of California, Berkeley. She has also been professor
of English education in the Department of Teaching and Learning of the
Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New
York University. Her expertise is in adult cognition, learning, education,
and adult identity formation. Her work focuses on workplace literacy, adult
writing in and out of schools, use of multimedia technologies with at-risk
students, and understanding the roles that literacy and new information
technologies play in the workplace, particularly for low-income and at-risk
populations. She has expertise in the use of qualitative and ethnographic
methods. Her books include School’s Out! Bridging Out-of-School Lit-
eracies with Classroom Practice and Changing Work, Changing Workers:
Critical Perspectives on Language, Literacy, and Skills. She has a Ph.D.
from the University of Pittsburgh.
Maureen W. Lovett is professor of paediatrics and medical sciences at
the University of Toronto, and a senior scientist in the Neurosciences and
Mental Health Program at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. She
is founder and director of the hospital’s Learning Disabilities Research
Program, a clinical research unit dedicated to developing and evaluating
different forms of remediation for children and youth with developmental
reading disabilities. Her research program is devoted to the study of reading
disorders in children and adolescents and methods of intervention for their
effective remediation. She is recognized internationally for contributions to
reading disabilities research and for the development of interventions that
address basic learning problems that interfere with the ability to read. She
studies individual differences in response to intervention among children
with language-based learning disabilities and developmental neurocognitive
disorders, as well as methodological and training issues in the rehabilitation
of neurocognitive disorders. She completed postdoctoral training in neuro-
psychology at the Hospital for Sick Children. She has a Ph.D. in psychology
from McGill University.
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Daryl F. Mellard is associate research professor in the School of Education
and director of the Division of Adult Studies, Center for Research on Learn-
ing, at the University of Kansas. His research focuses on education and
employment issues for adults and interventions to improve adult literacy
in adult education and other programs, such as Job Corps. As coprincipal
investigator of the National Research Center on Learning Disabilities, he
directed its review of Responsiveness to Intervention and conducted stud-
ies of education, social, and employment issues for adults with disabilities.
He just completed a 5-year study to develop, implement, and study the ef-
fectiveness of adult literacy interventions for low-literate adults, including
the role of decoding, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension instruction
and explicitness of instruction. A current development study focuses on
developing literacy skills of Job Corps participants in vocational trades.
He has served as a cochair to the Kansas Coalition on Adult Literacy and
Learning Disabilities and on the board of directors for a local independent
living center. He has a Ph.D. in education from the University of Kansas.
Elizabeth B. Moje is associate dean for research and the Arthur F. Thurnau
professor of literacy, language, and culture in educational studies at the Uni-
versity of Michigan. She also serves as a faculty associate in the university’s
Institute for Social Research and a faculty affiliate in Latino/a studies. Her
work focuses on adolescents and their development of literacy skills in such
areas as social studies and science. She is an expert on adolescent identities
related to literacy and how these develop through participating in literacy
practices of homes and communities and in ethnic, popular, and school
cultures. She was a member of the Carnegie Corporation of New York’s
Adolescent Literacy Council and research chair of the National Conference
on Research on Language and Literacy. She also served as a reading expert
on the Steering Committee for the Program for International Student As-
sessment and is a member of the William T. Grant Foundation’s Scholar
Award Selection Committee. Her books include Reframing Sociocultural
Research on Literacy: Identity, Agency, and Power; Constructions of Lit-
eracy: Studies of Literacy Teaching and Learning In and Out of Secondary
Schools; and All The Stories We Have: Adolescents’ Insights on Literacy
and Learning in Secondary School. She is coeditor of the Handbook of
Reading Research, Volume IV. She has a Ph.D. in literacy and language
from Purdue University.
Kenneth Pugh is president and director of research at Haskins Laborato-
ries, a Yale University–affiliated interdisciplinary institute dedicated to the
investigation of the biological basis of language and human communica-
tion. He also holds the appointment of professor in the Department of
Psychology at the University of Connecticut, and is associate professor in
the Department of Linguistics at Yale University and the director of the Yale
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Reading Center. His primary research interests are in the areas of cognitive
neuroscience and psycholinguistics. He was among the first scientists to use
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to reveal brain activity as-
sociated with reading and reading disabilities. His current research employs
combined behavioral and neurobiological measures in the study of typical
and atypical reading and language development, with a particular focus on
learning and plasticity in people with reading disabilities. He has a Ph.D.
in experimental psychology from the Ohio State University.
Chris Schatschneider is professor in the Department of Psychology at Flor-
ida State University. His expertise is in early reading development in chil-
dren and learning disabilities. His research focuses on individual differences
in the development of reading and the discovery and measurement of skills
needed to acquire reading, which can be used to identify children who are
at risk for reading problems. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in
statistics and research methodology at the University of Houston and is an
expert in quantitative methods, statistics, and research design. His interests
include multilevel modeling, growth-curve analyses, theory building and
testing, intervention design in field settings, and item-response theory. He
serves as an associate director at the Florida Center for Reading Research
at Florida State University; and he was a member of the National Early
Literacy Panel, which synthesized scientific research on the development
of literacy in children. He has a Ph.D. in psychology from Case Western
Reserve University.
Mark S. Seidenberg is the Hilldale professor and the Donald O. Hebb
professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin.
He is a cognitive neuroscientist who studies language and reading. His
work on language acquisition focuses on the role of statistical learning
and the bases of age-related changes in the capacity to learn language (the
critical period phenomenon). His reading research addresses the nature of
skilled reading, how children learn to read, dyslexia, and the brain bases
of reading, using the tools of modern cognitive neuroscience: behavioral
experiments, computational models, and neuroimaging. His current work
focuses on how language background affects early school achievement,
reading achievement of low-income and minority children, and the role of
home-school dialect differences in the “achievement gap.” He has published
research articles in psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, and education
and was recently honored as one of the 250 most-cited researchers in the
areas of psychology and psychiatry. Seidenberg is a fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, the Cognitive Science Society,
and the Association for Psychological Science. He has a Ph.D. in psychology
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from Columbia University and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for
the Study of Reading.
Elizabeth A.L. Stine-Morrow is professor in the Department of Educational
Psychology and Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at
the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is a researcher in cogni-
tive aging—examining how language comprehension and memory change
through adulthood and how strategic and contextual factors contribute
to the capacity for lifelong learning. She has served as associate editor
for Memory and Cognition (2007-2009) and the Journal of Gerontology:
Psychological Sciences (2009-2010) and is currently associate editor for
Psychology and Aging. She is a fellow of the American Psychological As-
sociation and of the Gerontological Society of America. She was a postdoc-
toral fellow at the Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development
at the Duke Medical Center, a research scientist at Brandeis University, and
on the faculty for many years at the University of New Hampshire. She has
a Ph.D. in general-experimental psychology from the Georgia Institute of
Technology.
Melissa Welch-Ross (Study Director) is senior program officer in the Na-
tional Research Council’s Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and
Education. Previously, she served as a special expert in research and policy
analysis in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evalu-
ation, Division of Children and Youth Policy, of the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services. She earlier launched and directed the Early
Learning and School Readiness Research Program for the National Insti-
tute of Child Health and Human Development at the National Institutes
of Health. She has held faculty appointments at George Mason University
and Georgia State University, where she conducted longitudinal research
on early memory development and published other experiments on social
cognition and memory. She has served terms as consulting editor for the
journals Child Development (2002-2007) and Developmental Psychology
(1999-2004) and was lead editor of the 2007 Handbook on Communicat-
ing and Disseminating Behavioral Science. She has a Ph.D. in developmen-
tal psychology from the University of Florida.
