Keith Millis

This team developed and evaluated a new system of assessments aligned with current theoretical constructs and empirical findings pertaining to both reading comprehension and performance moderators; sensitive to changes in development in reading comprehension; emphasize strategic reading processes empirically supported in the literature; provide greater information for guiding instruction (especially for students struggling to reach proficiency); and are comprised of texts and tasks that repr...

This study is a response to the many calls from across the nation for implementing "an effective, realistic, affordable, and politically acceptable long-term approach to the well-known problems and opportunities of U.S. pre-K-16 STEM education" (National Science Board, May 2006). As an initial step to developing an intelligent computerized tutor for teaching scientific inquiry skills, the researchers will build an intelligent computerized tutor and information delivery system (Acquiring Rese...

In this project, the researchers proposed to develop and test a new automated on-line reading strategy assessment tool called the Reading Strategy Assessment Tool (R-SAT). In the early 2000s, research suggested that students' difficulty with reading does not arise from a deficient in component language skills, such as word decoding, but from not being able to form coherent representations of the text. Readers who adopt a low standard of coherence read passively, creating a sparse and perhaps...