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Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Pages 385-391
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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 professional 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.
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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 linguistics, artificial intelligence, and human-computer interaction.
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Her current research involves the study of text comprehension in aging, particularly the comprehension of text-based health information. Harris teaches courses in acquired neurogenic language disorders in adults and the sociocultural
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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-LanguageHearing Association, of which she is a fellow and life member.
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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 studies of education, social, and employment issues for adults with disabilities.
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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.
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She earlier launched and directed the Early Learning and School Readiness Research Program for the National Institute 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.
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